#Spanish #neuroscientist who discovered the microglia cells of the #brain, which he pinpointed by…
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#Spanish #neuroscientist who discovered the microglia cells of the #brain, which he pinpointed by creating a new method of staining tissue samples with silver carbonate (1919-1921).
#Microglia are the #cells resident in the central #nervoussystem #functioning as an #immune cell.
He was a student of the Spanish histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, (who discovered #neurons, the nerve cells that link up to form up the nervous system).
#Hortega coined the name #oligodendroglia, for the cells discovered using the same staining system by Wilder Penfield who worked in his lab for five months in 1924.
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he moved to #Paris, then #Oxford and finally in 1940 to Buenos Aires, #Argentina.
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