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AAATripper
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| Simon_Says wrote: | | amyltrer wrote: | | Neurons, the brain cells don't divide. You'll die with the with the same number of neurons you had when you was born. |
Au contraire. Brain cells die over the life time. Hence senility in old age.
And brain cells do grow. Want proof? National Geographic March 2005. |
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amyltrer
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| Tripper wrote: | | Simon_Says wrote: | | amyltrer wrote: | | Neurons, the brain cells don't divide. You'll die with the with the same number of neurons you had when you was born. |
Au contraire. Brain cells die over the life time. Hence senility in old age.
And brain cells do grow. Want proof? National Geographic March 2005. |
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NOT the neurons. The nervous tissue contains two kinds of cells:
neurons which never divide (very few do, and that in the first years of life)
and glial cells (it's a romanian term, I don't know the english one) , which can divide. Their purpose is to feed, to sustain the healthyneurons, and to phagocyte the damaged ones. |
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Okay, that sounds alot more plausible. I'd like to see where that came from. Not that I'm a skeptic, I admit my knowledge of biology is still at the grade 11 level.
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Truth be told. Scientist have managed to restor a portion of mouse's spine... Soon this procedure will be refined for humans, thus we may be able to restore brain or other nerve damage.
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