06 October 2023
Schwann's Way Forward
Growing myelinating Schwann cells – cells of the nervous system that insulate neurons with a fatty coating called myelin – and neurons together in a dish is a common technique in the neuroscience lab for studying eg. repair after nerve injury. Here, a new co-culture method incorporating microfluidic chambers that enables the different cell types to be separately manipulated, reveals Schwann cells break up, ingest and clear debris
Read the published research paper here
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- Image from work by Clara Mutschler and colleagues
- John Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Journal of Cell Science, September 2023
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