{"id":112955,"date":"2020-09-13T06:22:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/glial-cells-play-an-active-role-in-the-nervous-system"},"modified":"2020-09-13T06:22:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T13:22:49","slug":"glial-cells-play-an-active-role-in-the-nervous-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/glial-cells-play-an-active-role-in-the-nervous-system","title":{"rendered":"Glial Cells Play an Active Role in the Nervous System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glial-cells-play-an-active-role-in-the-nervous-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Glial cells not only control the speed of nerve conduction, but they also influence the precision of signal transduction.<\/p>\n<p>Source: University of M\u00fcnster<\/p>\n<p>For the brain to work efficiently, it is important that a nerve impulse arrives at its destination as quickly and as precisely as possible. It has been long been known that the nerve fibres \u2014 also known as axons \u2014 pass on these impulses. In the course of evolution, an insulating sheath \u2014 myelin \u2014 developed around the axons which increases the speed of conduction. This insulating sheath is formed by the second type of cell in the nervous system \u2014 the glial cells, which are one of the main components of the brain. If, as a result of disease, myelin is depleted, this leads to neurological disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis or Morbus Charcot-Marie-Tooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Glial cells not only control the speed of nerve conduction, but they also influence the precision of signal transduction. Source: University of M\u00fcnster For the brain to work efficiently, it is important that a nerve impulse arrives at its destination as quickly and as precisely as possible. It has been long been known that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}