{"id":8896,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/radial_glial_cells\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:41","slug":"radial_glial_cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/radial_glial_cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Radial glial cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also referred to as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fncel.2015.00246\/full\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fncel.2015.00246\/full?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bergmann fibers<\/a>&nbsp;of the Golgi epithelium cells, they are a special class of astrocytes that extend from the ventricles to the cortex and along which migrating neurons travel to their final destinations. &nbsp;With the completion of migration, the radial glia fibers break apart and the cells are transformed into fibrous astrocytes. &nbsp;Some neurons do not follow radial paths. &nbsp;The transformation of radial glia into astrocytes is an example of a qualitative regression (or ontogenetic adaptation).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"astrocyte\">Astrocyte<\/a>, Cell migration (cerebral cortex), <a href=\"cerebellum_-development-\">Cerebellum (development)<\/a>, <a href=\"glial_cells\">Glial cells<\/a>, <a href=\"neuronal_migration_disorders\">Neuronal migration disorders<\/a>, <a href=\"ontogenetic_adaptation\">Ontogenetic adaptation<\/a>, <a href=\"proliferative_ventricular_zone\">Proliferative ventricular zone<\/a>, <a href=\"quantitative_and_qualitative_regressions\">Quantitative and qualitative regressions<\/a>, <a href=\"ventricle\">Ventricle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also referred to as the&nbsp;Bergmann fibers&nbsp;of the Golgi epithelium cells, they are a special class of astrocytes that extend from the ventricles to the cortex and along which migrating neurons travel to their final destinations. &nbsp;With the completion of migration, the radial glia fibers break apart and the cells are transformed into fibrous astrocytes. &nbsp;Some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/radial_glial_cells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radial glial cells&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}