Talk:Gliosis

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What is reactive fibrillary gliosis? Christianpunk 23:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Gliosis can be a result of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.177.246.150 (talk) 07:41, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Gliosis and glial scar are the same thing. the more common medical term is gliosis. it is permanent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.152.126 (talk) 02:39, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

The terms gliosis and microgliosis are also being used to describe microglial and astrocyte abnormalities in chronic pain syndromes. Ultra-low dose naltrexone attenuates chronic morphine-induced gliosis in rats. Mol Pain. 2010 Apr 16 ;6:22. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.84.67.67 (talk) 13:41, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

I strongly recommend against the merger of "gliosis" with "glial scar." While they may seem like "the same thing," we're looking at an issue of subtlety of medical language. "Gliosis" refers to the proliferation of glial cells, regardless of the result. A "glial scar" is the end result of unchecked gliosis. Gliosis is a process, a state of change. A glial scar is an end result. A process is not defined by its destination (they are often divorced), nor is a destination defined by how you get there. This is a semantically similar issue to the problem of correlation vs. causation. Similarity is not equal to sameness, and merging these items could lead to a reader's inability to find good information. Creslyn (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:28, 14 September 2011 (UTC).