Sentences with phrase «adjusted by neurons»
The research, published in the current issue of the journal Science, demonstrates that brain cells, known as astrocytes, which play fundamental roles in nearly all aspects of brain function, can be adjusted by neurons in response to injury and disease.
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By adjusting the opening or closing of channels in cell membranes, opsins can switch neurons on or turn them off.
In the new study, the team focused on neurons called amacrine cells and horizontal cells, which have a known role in «preprocessing» — or adjusting — electrical signals transmitted to the brain from the photoreceptors after they have been stimulated by light photons.
Published in Neuron, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) report their discovery of a neural circuit in the mouse olfactory bulb that explains how our mammalian cousins (and by extension, we) are able to adjust the gain on intense odors.
To cope, the neurons used methylation and demethylation like a volume knob, constantly adjusting the signal strength of connected neurons by turning on or off the genes that make the signal receptors.