Sentences with phrase «affected brain cells»

The researchers performed further experiments in the mice to look for differences in the affected brain cells and the circuits in which they were connected.

Starting to forget because the shock and concern affected your brain cells.

Simply put, it gives the brain what one neuroscientist calls «greater bandwidth,» boosting the processing capacity of the affected brain cells by 3,000 %.

Molecular details for how APOE protein, which helps clear cholesterol from the body, affects brain cells are not understood.

LAST FRONTIER Harvard graduate and medical student Benyam Kinde, 27, studies how genetic changes affect brain cells» activity.

A region of the gene that produces the PACAP38 protein has held nearly constant, even in humans, presumably because the protein plays diverse roles in neuron communication and is essential for normal development of the cerebellum, affecting brain cell migration, for example.

Selective targeting of the neurotransmitter that differentially affects brain cells that control the two distinct functions of the pancreas may allow for new medication therapies for conditions like diabetes, dyspepsia and gastro - esophageal reflux.

But he's also studied how concussions affect brain cells.

Methylxanthines affect brain cells that release adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin.

«And eventually, you do it long enough and it starts impacting other systems... immune responses; it can affect the heart; it affects brain cells.

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Interleukin - 1 is important for developing the killer T cell response against the virus, but it also affects the part of the brain in the hypothalamus that regulates body temperature, resulting in fever and headaches.

This damages some of the nerve cells in the brain, and affects my dad's memory, decision - making and personality.

Multiple ultrasounds will move cells in the brain around and also affect future generations of your family.

Exposure to radiation from cell phones during pregnancy affects the brain development of offspring, potentially leading to hyperactivity, one mouse study suggests.

«In animal studies, exercise has been shown to specifically affect the hippocampus, significantly increasing the growth of new neurons and cell survival, enhancing memory and learning, and increasing molecules that are involved in the plasticity of the brain,» Chaddock said.

In the new study, the scientists expressed surprise that the early abnormal growth of brain cells they observed in the fish embryo specifically affected male hormones, potentially indicating why more boys than girls are diagnosed with certain neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

A growing body of research indicates that the B2M - MHC I complex, which is present in all cells in the body except red blood cells and plasma cells, can act in the brain in ways not obviously related to immunity — guiding brain development, shaping nerve cell communication, and even affecting behavior.

Ions such as calcium are important because they affect the release of neurotransmitters, the molecules that mediate communication between brain cells,» said Noebels.

In animal models, the researchers found that using microRNA to disrupt cells in the brain's prefrontal cortex — a region associated with complex planning and decision - making — affected learning and memory later in life.

He noted that it was unclear, for example, whether resveratrol affected the aging process in the kind of cells in the heart and brain that are particularly susceptible to degeneration with age.

Yang said the study not only indicated which genes are affected by traumatic brain injury and linked to serious disease, but also might point to the genes that govern metabolism, cell communication and inflammation — which might make them the best targets for new treatments for brain disorders.

Hormones regulate a lifelong reshaping of our neuronal pathways, programming a turnover and pruning of brain cells — a process that begins in the womb and continues to affect our intellectual, emotional and social development in adulthood.

But the enzyme has other jobs in the brain, such as potentially affecting the ability of nerve cells to communicate properly.

Published in Molecular Neurobiology, the study led by Dr Elodie Siney under the supervision of Dr Sandrine Willaime - Morawek, Lecturer in Stem Cells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cCells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cellscells.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation can stimulate brain cells from outside the head, but is not highly targeted and so affects large areas of the brain at once.

These conditions are distinguished by the different types of brain nerve cells that are first affected and by the symptoms that first appear.

Adams is partnering with doctoral student Sambuddha Basu, associate professor and neurosciences researcher, Associate Professor Yoon - Seong Kim, and scientist Subhrangshu Guhathakurta to study Parkinson's, which affects motor functions caused by a gradual loss of brain cells.

«Drugs like morphine hijack the body's natural painkilling mechanisms, such as those used by endorphins, but because they act within the central nervous system, they can affect other brain cells that use similar pathways, leading to side effects such as addiction or sleepiness,» says Professor Gamper.

Scientists are studying how oscillations generated by nerve cells affect brain function.

A new study is the first to reveal how sleep deprivation disrupts our brain cells» ability to communicate with each other, leading to temporary mental lapses that affect memory and visual perception.

Neurodegenerative diseases are caused by the death of neurons and other cells in the brain, with different diseases affecting different regions of the brain.

Symptoms typically don't become apparent until over 70 % of the brain's dopamine - producing cells have been affected.

The disease is known to affect motor neurons — nerve cells that control muscles — in the brain, brainstem and spinal cord.

But this came from work in my laboratory and others that suggested that nerve cells in affected regions of the Alzheimer brain looked like they were trying to divide.

The findings highlight specific sets of genes and the brain cells they affect as being involved in regulating anxiety.

The two groups took skin cells from patients and transformed them into the type of brain cells that are affected by Alzheimer's.

This epigenetic alteration of gene activity in brain cells that receive this neurotransmitter showed for the first time that dopamine deficiencies can affect a variety of behavioral and physiological functions regulated in the prefrontal cortex.

Affecting the central nervous system, it causes neonatal meningitis by multiplying in immune cells, such as macrophages, and then disseminating into the bloodstream to subsequently invade the blood - brain barrier.

Leptin and ghrelin, arbiters of fullness and hunger, affect cells in the brain that produce dopamine — that chemical messenger so often associated with reward — but so do the hormones from the hypothalamus.

One question is how leftover fetal cells affect the brain.

«Severe stress affects the size of the structures in the brain, causes cell death, and affects the number of connections between brain cells,» observes Kalin.

Neuroscientist Bryan Kolb, at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience in Lethbridge, Alberta, has explored how brain cells are affected by drugs, hormones, and injury.

The technique picks up somatic mutations that affect just a fraction of the brain's cells, in a «mosaic» pattern.

DNA sequences were once thought to be identical from cell to cell, but it's increasingly understood that mutations can arise during brain development that affect only certain groups of brain cells.

Somatic brain mutations, affecting just pockets of cells, can be harmful, and have been suggested as a possible cause of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, epilepsy or intellectual disability (see this review article for further background).

Secreted by certain brain cells, APOE is known to regulate cholesterol metabolism within the brain and can bind to A-beta peptides, suggesting that the different forms of the protein may affect whether and how toxic A-beta plaques form.

But in MJD patients, it collects in large clumps, clogging cell nuclei in the affected brain areas.

Huntington's disease is a genetic disorder that affects around 1 in every 10,000 people and damages nerve cells in the brain.

His work suggests that deep - brain stimulation — whether electrical or optical — may be most effective when it targets not the neurons themselves but the connections between cells, thereby affecting the flow of activity between brain regions.

Nevertheless, in the case of ET, some researchers theorize that variation in LINGO1 may preferentially affect cells in the brain's cerebellum, a brain structure that edits rough motor programs to produce coordinated movements.