The “Big‐Bang” for modern glial biology: Translation and comments on Pío del Río‐Hortega 1919 series of papers on microglia

The word "glia" was coined in the mid-19th century and defined as "the nerve glue". For decades, it was assumed to be a uniform matrix, until cell theorists raised the "neuron doctrine" which stipulated that nervous tissue was composed of individual cells. The term "astrocytes" was introduced in the... View More