Glial Tiling in the Insect Nervous System

Autor: Nicole Pogodalla, Bente Winkler, Christian Klämbt
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, Vol 16 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1662-5102
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2022.825695
Popis: The Drosophila nervous system comprises a small number of well characterized glial cell classes. The outer surface of the central nervous system (CNS) is protected by a glial derived blood-brain barrier generated by perineurial and subperineurial glia. All neural stem cells and all neurons are engulfed by cortex glial cells. The inner neuropil region, that harbors all synapses and dendrites, is covered by ensheathing glia and infiltrated by astrocyte-like glial cells. All these glial cells show a tiled organization with an often remarkable plasticity where glial cells of one cell type invade the territory of the neighboring glial cell type upon its ablation. Here, we summarize the different glial tiling patterns and based on the different modes of cell-cell contacts we hypothesize that different molecular mechanisms underlie tiling of the different glial cell types.
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