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01.09.2009 | Brain Mythology
Are there ten times more glia than neurons in the brain?
verfasst von:
Claus C. Hilgetag, Helen Barbas
Erschienen in:
Brain Structure and Function
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Ausgabe 4-5/2009
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Excerpt
Neuroscience students take it for granted that there are many more glia than neurons in the brain. Neuroscience textbooks state with confidence: “Although there are many neurons in the human brain…, glia outnumber neurons by tenfold” (Bear et al.
2006) or, not to be outdone, even by “10–50 times”, as claimed in another text (Kandel et al.
2000). This fact is happily invoked by gliologists to promote the status of their field. …