Ridding Brain Of Dead Cells And Creating New Ones, How It's Done Discovered

Although thousands of new brain cells called neurons are produced each day in adults brains, only a small percentage of them survive. The cells that die are consumed by scavenger cells called phagocytes. Researchers have not completely understood how this process works, which phagocytes are unique to the brain and how the removal of dead neurons influences the creation of new neurons, until now. During adulthood neurogenesis, or the development of new neurons, largely ceases in most areas of the brain...

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