Rare cells are 'window into the gut' for the nervous system Cells that alert nervous system to intestinal trouble could provide new target for gastrointestinal treatments Date: June 22, 2017 ...

The discovery of sympathetic nervous system cells in lampreys draws a closer tie between the animal and complex vertebrates — such as humans.

A protein associated with neuron damage in Alzheimer's patients provides a superior scaffold for growing central nervous system cells in the lab. The findings could have clinical implications for ...

Stem cells in the nervous system articles from across Nature Portfolio Stem cells in the nervous system are self-renewing cells that have the capacity to produce all, or a restricted set of, the ...

Understanding the link between cancer tumors and the nervous system may be essential for winning the war on cancer, researchers say.

Glial cells play an important role in supporting the body's nervous system. Several types of glial cells exist. Learn more here.

The results of a study conducted in Brazil suggest that the sympathetic nervous system - the part of the autonomous nervous system that controls responses to danger or stress - can modulate the ...

Your nervous system contains millions of nerve cells, called neurons. Neurons are highly specialised to transmit messages from one part of your body to another. All neurons have a cell body and ...

University of Illinois researchers see them as a repository of untapped potential. These cells could be used to regenerate damaged tissue, for example. Now they have discovered that the growth of ...

While these other animal lineages have nervous systems governed by the nerve cells known as neurons, placozoans were thought to be different.

“The nervous system, the immune system, the vasculature, everything converges in the epithelium,” said Bellono. He took particular interest in EC cells, wondering if the serotonin they release ...

Using gut-mimicking "organoids" grown from mouse stem cells, the researchers showed how cells in the intestinal lining called enterochromaffin (EC) cells alert the nervous system to signs of ...