Gliogenesis: Historical Perspectives, 1839–1985

• Main Authors: Webster, Henry deF (Author), Åström, Karl E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 202
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.

This historical review of gliogenesis begins with the introduction of the cell doctrine by Theodor Schwann in 1839. A number of investigators then showed that tissues and organs were made up of cells. However, when Virchow examined the CNS, what separated nerve cells from each other and from blood v...