Sentences with phrase «as mushroom bodies»

The brain centers in question are paired, lobed structures first discovered in insects and known as mushroom bodies.

One afternoon Christopher Theall, one of Strausfeld's Ph.D. students, shows me his own experimental setup for tapping into a portion of the cockroach brain known as the mushroom body.

Not exact matches

Just last summer, singer Katy Perry claimed the «M Diet,» otherwise known as eating only raw mushrooms for one meal a day for two weeks, helped her lose fat in select areas of her body.

This pairing is enhanced as the fruit and body of the wine enhance the savory mushroom sauce that tops the steak.

2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons butter, softened 2 pounds portobello mushrooms, in 1 / 4 - inch slices (save the stems for another use)(you can use cremini instead, as well) 1/2 carrot, finely diced 1 small yellow onion, finely diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 cup full - bodied red wine 2 cups beef or vegetable broth (beef broth is traditional but vegetable to make it vegetarian; it works with either) 2 tablespoons tomato paste 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves (1/2 teaspoon dried) 1 1/2 tablespoons all - purpose flour 1 cup pearl onions, peeled (thawed if frozen) Egg noodles, for serving Sour cream and chopped chives or parsley, for garnish (optional)

Scientists have already established that the neocortex and the mushroom bodies are larger in social species such as humans and wasps, as compared with solitary animals such as bears and lone spiders.

Moreover, cockroaches might be able to create stereotypical images of the odor plume in the mushroom body via temporal sampling of the odor signals, as antennae of cockroaches move voluntarily.

Caffeine potentiated responses of mushroom body neurons involved in olfactory learning and memory by acting as an adenosine receptor antagonist.

Strausfeld and Wolff looked at both the neuroanatomy and chemical composition of mushroom bodies in numerous species belonging to two major groups of invertebrates: Ecdysozoa, which includes insects, crustaceans and other arthropods such as scorpions and horseshoe crabs; and Lophotrochozoa, which includes mollusks, flatworms and segmented worms.

But the newly found nomadic species, Euprenolepis procera, which roams the rainforests of Malaysia, is the only ant known whose adults rely on mushrooms — the fruiting bodies of fungi — as their primary source of food.

Unexpectedly, the «mutant bees» performed just as well on many (but not all) of the odor learning tasks as do real bees with intact mushroom bodies.

Using real - time cellular imaging to monitor the changes in aged flies» neuron activity before and after learning, Davis and his colleague Ayako Tonoki found structural connectivity defects between a set of neurons known as dorsal paired medial neurons and mushroom body neurons; these defects prevented long - term memories from forming.

Using Acks as a neural activity marker, we demonstrated that neural activity in the mushroom bodies, especially in Class II Kenyon cells, one subtype of mushroom body intrinsic neurons, and a restricted area between the dorsal lobes and the optic lobes was increased in the brains of Japanese honeybee workers involved in the formation of a hot defensive bee ball.

Dr. Ruta, Rockefeller University, shows in her latest paper featured in Cell that the mushroom body, a pair of structures in insect brains, acts as a «switchboard» to relay sensory information to different neuronal networks based on the fruit fly's previous experience and context.

A medium to full bodied wine, Zin goes well with sautéed field mushrooms or heartier dishes such as roast venison.

Well, the best food sources of natural Vitamin D are egg yolks (from hens fed a healthy diet and allowed to get their own sunshine), fatty fish such as salmon and mackerel, organ meats, and some mushrooms (some portobella mushrooms and maitake mushroom are fairly good sources of vitamin D, although the type of vitamin D in mushrooms might not be the best utilized source in your body).

Classified as a «jelly fungi», the fruiting bodies of tremella are gelatinous, gooey, and often silvery grey, earning it the nickname «silver ear mushroom».

Like all medicinal mushrooms, Tremella is rich with polysaccharides and beta - glucans, which act as immune - modulators and stimulate the body's defense mechanisms.

Mushrooms are accepted on the diet as they do not have the same effect as other fungus once it enters the body.

At the same time, medicinal mushrooms can act to calm your body's over-reactive autoimmune response, essentially performing double duty to ward off illness by giving your immunity a «jump start» while also alleviating symptoms of such conditions as psoriasis, lupus and arthritis.

In addition to working as a cortisol blocker, it's also important to note that cordycep mushrooms and herbal supplements help to control what's known as oxidative stress in the body.

The game's other major gimmick is that when playing as Mario and Luigi, you play literally inside Bowser's body, thanks to some convenient exposition about him eating a mushroom that causes him unknowingly inhale the brothers.

«Looking at «Dreamworlds», this new body of work by Amy Lin for her third show in this gallery, I am reminded of the artist's description of her own work as being «social» and as representing human beings, that the thousands of individual marks make up a community much the way, say, mushrooms develop from tiny spores.

Drawing an analogy to the world of fungi, Leavergirl compares protests and overt political action to the showy but temporary fruiting bodies of fungi — which most of us know as mushrooms.