Sentences with phrase «also signals cells»

Progesterone also signals cells to differentiate, or develop into specific types of cells.

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StingRay (also known as «Hailstorm» or «TriggerFish») is an «IMSI catcher» basically acts like a cell phone tower, and sends out signals which force cell phones to ping them back with information showing their owner's location and other identifying information.

Calcium is a mineral needed for bone development, but it is also needed to send signals to cells and produce energy.

Schumer said his crowdsourcing campaign also found problems along the Northern New York border with Canada, where Canadian wireless signals overpowered U.S. cell coverage on a consistent basis in certain dead zones.

at The Scripps Research Institute and the Burnham Institute, and also at the National Institutes of Health, where her studies spanned signal transduction, cell migration, and neuronal development.

Now, in a study published February 13 in Science Signaling, Lin's team discovered that a chemical compound that activates ATF6 also converts patient - derived stem cells into blood vessels.

For some years now, a new class of drugs called antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) have been used, which work in two ways: they consist of an antibody that binds selectively to the tumor cell receptor and interrupts the signal to propagate; they also act as a transport vehicle for a chemical substance that enters the cancer cells with the antibody and triggers their death.

In parallel, they also transmit this signal to cells that produce the neurotransmitter nitric oxide to trigger sexual behavior.

«Our studies suggest that the local auxin signals can be communicated over long distances using calcium waves in order to generate an auxin signal also in target cells located far away,» Hedrich says.

By micro-injecting IAA directly into the root hair, Julian Dindas also demonstrated that an auxin - treated cell does more than send a calcium signal.

The paper's lead author — Marcus Yip, who completed his PhD at MIT last fall — and his colleagues Rui Jin and Nathan Ickes, both in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will also exhibit a prototype charger that plugs into an ordinary cell phone and can recharge the signal - processing chip in roughly two minutes.

Loss of LKB1 by regulatory T cells was also associated with increased levels of signaling molecules or cytokines associated with the Th2 immune response, Kai said.

The research team also discovered that if the pancreas is inflamed, fluid from the pancreas contains signaling molecules that induce acinar cells to transform into duct - like cells.

It may be necessary for a drug to inhibit some, but not all, of the enzyme, enough to prevent plaque formation but also preserve normal signaling between nerve cells, Yan says.

They impact on signal transmission from cell to cell, but also affect intracellular communication,» explains Professor Robert Ernst, whose research group at the BMLS has been on the trail of fats» hidden functions for years.

«Our observations suggest regulatory T cells can also become functionally exhausted when they lose LKB1 signaling.»

When dendritic cells not only signal myelin as a «target substance,» but also secrete the messenger substance IL - 6, a sort of molecular switch is flipped in the T cells.

Several target molecules have also been identified in intracellular signalling pathways and in cell survival proteins.

Cajal also figured out that nerve cells are polar, meaning that signals enter the cell through the shrubbery of the dendrites at one end and leave through the other end at the whiplike axon.

Because HIF signals cells to produce VEGF, the researchers wondered whether deleting HIF in amacrine and horizontal cells would also stop the pipeline of VEGF and normal intermediate layer blood vessel development.

Correspondingly, all daughter cells that arise from a cell containing the marker also send out a light signal.

GLP - 1 receptors are also found in the brain, and prior research has shown that activating them can boost the function of dopamine connections, act as an anti-inflammatory, improve energy production, and switch on cell survival signals.

Osteocalcin also signals fat cells to release a hormone that increases the body's sensitivity to insulin, the body's blood sugar moderator, Karsenty and colleagues reported in Cell in 2007.

Researchers are also developing rudimentary models of signaling networks in cells and simple brain circuits.

Latest research from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS, Bangalore), now shows that maintaining Calcium balance in cells is also needed for another purpose — it may be regulating the levels of an important signalling molecule called dopamine in the brain.

CD4 T cells are also known as «helper» cells because they signal another type of T cell, the CD8, to destroy HIV - infected cells.

RNA, like DNA, encodes information for cell functions, but RNA can also fold up and perform tasks, like signaling, regulating or catalyzing reactions.

«We also found that reduced cohesin led to changes in the expression of genes involved in nerve cell development and the response to an immune signaling protein,» corresponding author Toshihide Yamashita says.

Atoh1, also known as Math1, makes a signalling molecule known to orchestrate the development of hair cells in embryos.

Ironically, TRAIL normally delivers a signal for cells to die, but the Trinity scientists found that this molecule can also send a wound - healing message from tumour cells.

In addition to its known roles in cancerous cells, STAT3 also is an essential mediator of cytokine and growth factor signals in normal cells that are important for diverse processes including immunity and inflammation.

Mice without Del - 1 that had been induced to get EAE also had significantly higher numbers of inflammatory cells in their spinal cords at the disease's peak, a fact that further experiments revealed was due to increased levels of the signaling molecule IL - 17.

This study, published recently in PLOS Genetics, shows that in the particular case of meiotic cells such as spermatocytes, the signalling route of the ATM protein also participates in the control system of the cell cycle progression in response to DNA damage, something which until now was unknown.

The ability to track markers inside and outside a cell simultaneously, and to map them atop images showing the cell's shape, is also helping researchers study the metabolic effects of signaling molecules, such as G - protein - coupled receptors.

The researchers also looked at the gene expression of skin cells from people with psoriasis and found decreased expression of the genes involved in pigmentation signaling, correlated with increased amounts of IL - 17 and TNF.

However, Feske and his colleagues found that calcium signals also are required for the development of iTreg cells and that their numbers are strongly reduced in the lungs of the infected STIM1 - deficient mice.

The rapidly proliferating cells, they found, also sported a specific cell - signaling molecule.

In this rewriting of the textbooks, a tumor is not just a clump of aberrant cells; it also includes a support system, a tumor microenvironment, which encompasses a multitude of varying immune cell types and crisscrossing chemical signals, along with a network of blood vessels.

What's more, they identified Cas as a critical, tissue - specific target of Hh signaling, which not only plays a key role in maintaining follicle stem cells but also assists in the diversification of their progeny.

Implants like these could also control prosthetic limbs more precisely because they relay signals from carefully chosen neurons, rather than having software calculate a signal from recordings of many different cells.

In these vesicles, we saw the EGFR and HER2 receptors being broken down, but we also saw our negative control receptor, c - MET,» said Dent, who is the Universal Corporation Chair in Cancer Cell Signaling and a member of the Cancer Cell Signaling research program at Massey.

«We also showed for the first time that AHR signaling in primary human orbital fibroblasts disrupts the pro-fibrotic Wnt / β - catenin pathway, which is important for scar cell formation,» noted Dr. Phipps.

The lipid type, ceramide, also has a functional role in various signaling pathways and affects synaptic function, although its primary role is not in the synapse, but providing structure in cell membranes.

The daf - 2 gene is also part of a signaling pathway that influences how well cells age and cope with stress.

Medina and his colleagues also suspect that another mechanism is at play: Purkinje cells might respond differently when a signal from a climbing fiber is synchronized with signals coming elsewhere from the brain.

Oligodendrocytes, the cells that are known to produce the myelin sheaths which enable saltatory conduction of action potentials along the myelinated axons, are modulators of signal transmission along neuronal connections (axons) and also promote neuronal survival by providing metabolic support.

«TGF - beta functions as an important time signal that controls when a stem cell should stop producing one type of nerve cell and instead start producing another, while also gradually limiting the stem cell's future development capacity,» says Johan Ericson, Professor of Developmental Biology, who led the study.

This enabled adipose - derived adult stem cells to be successfully converted into mature fat cells within the experiments, and the corresponding signalling pathway mTORC1 was also decoded.

Her research has recently shown that a signaling pathway dubbed «hedgehog» is important not only for normal development of stem cells but also for the growth of cancer cells in chronic myelogenous leukemia.

The new study revealed that pancreatic cancer cells not only send signals that make macrophages produce abnormal amounts of dectin - 1 surface receptors, but also that make tumor cells themselves express high levels of galectin - 9.