Sentences with phrase «between nerve cells»

New research provides an intriguing glimpse into the processes that establish connections between nerve cells in the brain.

As well as being released into the blood, both substances carry messages between nerve cells in the brain.

A reduction in dopamine from cell death results in a lack of communication between nerve cells, which in turn leads to difficulty in movement control.

A nerve cell, which sends signals using serotonin, first releases serotonin into the space between the nerve cells.

One of these, calcium, is essential for the formation of bone and teeth and as a signal chemical between nerve cells.

The activities engaged in by children both stimulate and influence the pattern of the connections made between the nerve cells.

And insulin resistance increases inflammation in the brain, driving the formation of clumps of protein clumps between nerve cells, too.

All modes of sensory perception are based on communication between nerve cells.

By examining the brains of bees trained to different tasks, the researchers found that the number of connections between nerve cells may hold the answer to questions about individual cognitive differences.

Three US - based scientists - Thomas Südhof, of Stanford University School of Medicine, Richard Scheller, of the biotech company Genentech, and James Rothman, of Yale University - are the joint recipients of the neuroscience prize for their work to reveal the precise molecular basis of the transfer of signals between nerve cells in the brain.

It acts by flooding the gaps between nerve cells with acetylcholine.

The consumed caffeine caused dopamine, a carrier of messages between nerve cells in the brain, to flood the brain's pleasure center resulting in decreased pain sensitivity, a huge benefit for chronic pain suffers.

Blueberries also stimulate the growth of new nerve cells and facilitate better communication between nerve cells via a process known as transduction.

The traditional view is that learning is based on the strengthening or weakening of the contacts between the nerve cells in the brain.

Certain changes in synapses — the junctions between nerve cells in the brain — have been linked with brain disorders.

Researchers from universities in the UK and Australia found that that neurotransmitter (a chemical compound that sends impulses between nerve cells and affects everything from sleep to aggression in humans) spurs a cascade of Dr. Jekyll - to - Mr.

New synapses — communication links between nerve cells — poke holes in the nets,

«The connection between nerve cells stores information and transmits it.

Preliminary results suggest the growth factor strengthens the connections between nerve cell synapses during consolidation, says Alberini.

When chemical phosphate groups are added to the receptors, they move from the cytoplasm and cluster on the edges of nerve cells along synapses — the spaces between nerve cells where messages transmit from one cell to another.

Old mice that underwent parabiosis formed more new connections between nerve cells there.

Glycine is an important messenger molecule between nerve cells in the brain, for instance, not to mention its role as a component of proteins.

In addition, the inhibitor prevented the loss of communication points between the nerve cells in the brain associated with Alzheimer's, and the treated mice demonstrated fewer memory and behavioural problems compared with the untreated mice.

In the dynamic world of the central nervous system, the neurotransmitter glutamate is a key player, ceaselessly transmitting critical instructions between nerve cells.

We found that an unusually high number of genes affected by these DNA deletions / duplications are associated with the functioning of synaptic transmission between nerve cells.

There, it fuses with the membrane, creating a conduit for the release of the neurotransmitters into the so - called synaptic cleft between nerve cells.

For electrical signals to move between nerve cells, or from nerve cells to other cells (such as muscle cells), those signals must travel along axons.

This result, which shows the extent to which the integration between nerve cells and these synthetic structures is stable and efficient, highlights the great potentialities of carbon nanotubes as innovative materials capable of facilitating neuronal regeneration or in order to create a kind of artificial bridge between groups of neurons whose connection has been interrupted.

A synapse is like a dock between nerve cells.

Caspi and Moffitt built on earlier research focusing on a variation in a gene called the serotonin transporter, which normally helps information flow between nerve cells in the brain.

The researchers were specifically looking at levels of beta - amyloid deposits in spaces between nerve cells as well as tangles, knotted threads of the tau protein inside brain cells.

This protective layer, made up of protein and fatty substrates, helps electrical signals to transmit quickly and efficiently between nerve cells.

As with stroke, CNB - 001 was again discovered to maintain the critical signalling pathways needed for nerve cell survival, and also the connections between nerve cells which are lost with the injury.

It allows a specific neurotransmitter called histamine to build up in the spaces between nerve cells by blocking its uptake into the nearby cells.

As those impulses jump along between nerve cells (at the synapses), they utilized a chemical called acetylcholine.

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.

Blueberries also stimulate the growth of new nerve cells and facilitate better communication between nerve cells via a process known as transduction.

By using markers that could identify newly - formed brain cells, they found that running mice developed about twice as many new cells, and those cells had longer dendrites, compared to the sedentary mice, which facilitates the formation of new synaptic contacts between the nerve cells.

That process, in turn, may generate «synaptic plasticity» allowing the junctions between nerve cells to strengthen and weaken more easily.

Serotonin, also known as the happy hormone, is a brain chemical messenger, which transmits nerve impulses between nerve cells or neurons.

Mice exposed to low - dosage of cannabis have more links between nerve cells in the brain, compared to those who were not exposed.

Donepezil (Aricept) can slow the progress of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease by blocking the breakdown of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that carries messages between nerve cells.

The mutation, which has been found in people with ADHD, autism and bipolar disorder, affects the function of DAT, a protein that regulates the brain's supply of the neurotransmitter by removing excess dopamine from the synapse, or the space between nerve cells.

At the cellular level, learning and memory require continuous readjustment of the strength of synaptic junctions — the functional connections between nerve cells.

Lately I've begun to thank God for it, this chemical that — if scientists are right, and they aren't even sure — inhibits my overly efficient reuptake of another chemical (serotonin) that somehow facilitates communication between nerve cells in my brain.

San Diego — based Otonomy, which raised $ 115 million in a 2014 initial public offering, is in clinical trials for a drug that could quiet the overexcitement of the signaling between nerve cells in the cochlea that is linked to tinnitus.