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08 May 2026
Astro Turf
Non-neuronal brain cells, astrocytes (here in green), have essential roles in the brain such as redistributing resources and conveying molecular signals. They connect to each other via gap junctions, and now, using expansion microscopy in mouse brain tissue, it's been revealed that they connect regions of the brain by both long- and short-range networks that have plasticity, reorganising in response to sensory deprivation
Read the published research article here
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- Still from video from work by Melissa L. Cooper and colleagues
- Institute for Translational Neuroscience, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Current Biology, April 2026
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