Blog
Save
Email
Print
ShareAstrocytes, also known as astroglia, are characteristic star-shaped glial cells in the brain..
For more information about the topic Astrocyte, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
Excitotoxicity and cell damage — Excitotoxicity is the pathological process by which neurons are damaged and killed by the overactivations of receptors for the excitatory ... > read more
Glutamic acid — Glutamate is a key molecule in cellular metabolism. In humans, dietary proteins are broken down by digestion into amino acids, which serves as ... > read more
Sensory neuron — Sensory neurons are nerve cells within the nervous system responsible for converting external stimuli from the organism's environment into internal ... > read more
Electrolyte — An electrolyte is a substance that dissociates into free ions when dissolved, to produce an electrically conductive medium. Electrolyte and sports ... > read more
Neurotransmitter — Neurotransmitters are chemicals that are used to relay, amplify and modulate electrical signals between a neuron and another cell. Substances that ... > read more
Neuron — Neurons (also known as neurones, nerve cells and nerve fibers) are electrically excitable cells in the nervous system that function to process and ... > read more
Blood test — Blood tests are laboratory tests done on blood to gain an appreciation of disease states and the function of organs. Since blood flows throughout the ... > read more
Axon — An axon, or nerve fiber, is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body ... > read more
Chemical synapse — Chemical synapses are specialized junctions through which cells of the nervous system signal to one another and to non-neuronal cells such as muscles ... > read moreNote: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Astrocyte at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.
Editor's Note: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Recommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
and Google +1:
Other bookmarking and sharing tools:
more 