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The physiological role of the Gomori-positive glia: a new hypothesis
Zbigniew Srebro1, Konrad Dziobek
1Department of Human Developmental Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Folia Medica Cracoviensia
|January 7, 2010
Abstract:
On the basis of histological observations of the brains of intact animals and of those injected with a sulfur-containing material (cystamine) we propose that the main, if not unique, role of the Gomori-positive glia is to scavenge the brain for sulfur-containing material because such material when physiologically present (e.g. neurophysin) may give rise to free cysteine that is toxic to neurons, being a long-recognized neurotoxin.
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