Sentences with phrase «between nerve cells in»

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.

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.

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

The drug restored in the mice normal levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter communicating messages between nerve cells in the brain.

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

While most researchers use Brainbow to visualize connections between nerve cells in the brain, Alain Chédotal of the Institut de la Vision in

Caveat: To date, this strategy has only been able to allow better communication between nerve cells in the spinal cord, but there is no evidence of improved communication between those neurons and the brain.

Variants of a protein that helps snip connections between nerve cells in the brain may contribute to the disorder, scientists report January 27 in Nature.

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

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

Scientists have discovered why a single mutated protein can lead to serious mental retardation in men with a common genetic disorder called fragile - X syndrome: The healthy protein is essential for establishing during childhood the adult pattern of connections between nerve cells in the brain.

- Speeds myelination * between the nerve cells in the stomach and the brain.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Their brains differed in the activity of over a hundred genes that provide cells with energy, influence chemical communications in the brain and strengthen the connection between nerve cells.

Further study revealed that these so - called immune proteins are actually present on the surface of certain nerve cells, but that they functioned differently in the brain than they did in the rest of the body; rather than scouting for germs, they influenced signals sent between neurons.

This type of inflammation between 18 and 32 weeks of gestation in humans has been linked to preterm birth as well as an imbalance of immune cells in the brain of the offspring and even death of nerve cells in the brains of those children.

This showed leukocytes crossing between the blood - nerve barrier endothelial cells without gaps in the barrier or change in how the barrier is structured.

Researchers are looking for taste bud cells that might involved in turning off our desire, but also considering, Chandrashekar says, the possibility that once saltwater reaches a certain concentration, it leaks between the taste bud cells and makes its way down to the nerve directly.

He showed that short - term memory involves increased levels of neurotransmitters at the synapses, the communication sites between nerve cells and long - term memory requires changes in the levels of proteins in the synapse.

The image, a mysterious, gray blob surrounding a spot of intense red, was based on an electron - microscope photo of a neuromuscular junction (the connection between a nerve cell and a muscle) clipped from a magazine sometime in the 1980s.

Using fluorescent antibodies designed specifically to light up the receptor in mice, the investigators observed it on vagus nerves, which serve as a main biochemical connection between airway cells and the brain.

Lots of synapses communicating between different nerve cells form networks and LTP intensifies the connectivity of the cells in the network to make information transfer more efficient.

They collect outside the nerve cells in the brain and disrupt the signaling system between neurons, blocking them from relaying messages.

Levels of dopamine — a neurotransmitter involved in signalling between nerve cells and which is implicated in drug addiction — showed differences in the more impulsive gamblers.

But this study hints that the rest periods between bouts of dieting, not the time spent cutting calories, may play an important role in nerve cell growth in mice, says Mark Mattson, a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, Md., who wasn't involved in the study.

Based on previous studies, researchers have hypothesized that recreational noise exposure might damage the circuitry between sensory hair cells in the inner ear and their auditory nerve targets that deliver information to the brain.

Nerve signals control the communication between the billions of cells in an organism and enable them to work together in neural networks.

In trying to understand the brain, for instance, neuroscientists have focused on synapses — the junctions between nerve - cell endings — as the essential transmitters of thought and feeling.

Between birth and a child's first birthday, her brain nearly triples in size as torrents of newborn nerve cells create neural pathways.

a) The Eye in your Thigh: a patch of skin cells on the leg that can distinguish between bright and dark conditions, perhaps to help regulate the body clock b) The Ear in your Rear: nerves in the buttocks attuned to infrasound vibrations of between 10 and 25 hertz, perhaps to warn of approaching predators or thunderstorms c) The Nose in your Toes: scent - detecting sebaceous glands on the feet whose purpose is unclear d) The Tongue in your Lung: taste - bud - like receptors that detect bitter substances and dilate or restrict the airways accordingly

Previous research has shown that the drug stimulates nerve cells in the midbrain to release dopamine into the synapses (connections between neurons) in the striatum.

Moser demonstrated a number of changes in the strength of connections between nerve cells — a phenomenon called synaptic plasticity — in the hippocampus as rats stored information in their long - term memory.

In the 19th century, the pioneering neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal theorized that information was processed in our heads each time an electrical impulse traveled across a synapse, the gap between one nerve cell and the nexIn the 19th century, the pioneering neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal theorized that information was processed in our heads each time an electrical impulse traveled across a synapse, the gap between one nerve cell and the nexin our heads each time an electrical impulse traveled across a synapse, the gap between one nerve cell and the next.

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.

An arm's or a leg's motor skills fail because, though the nerve cells in the limb are fine, there's no longer a connection between them and the brain.

NERVE PROTECTORS The glowing cells in this micrograph of a mouse's optic nerve help shield electrical signals passing between eyes and bNERVE PROTECTORS The glowing cells in this micrograph of a mouse's optic nerve help shield electrical signals passing between eyes and bnerve help shield electrical signals passing between eyes and brain.

MG affects the transmission of signals between the peripheral motoric nerve cells and muscles, resulting in muscular fatigue in the patient,» Dr Harbo explains.

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

«It appears there is cross-talk between pathways called calcium channels in sensory nerve cells that process the itch signal.»

The injuries crush and sever the long axons of spinal cord nerve cells, blocking communication between the brain and the body and resulting in paralysis below the injury.

«We were able to counter anesthesia - induced deficits in the formation of connections between nerve cells and related learning problems,» says Yang.

The results of the current study provide a partial answer to this mystery: it is precisely because of their small brain that is densely packed with nerve cells that birds are able to reduce the processing time in tasks that require rapid interaction between different groups of neurons.

«They play an important role in the excitation of nerve cell axons and signal transfer between various cells,» says Prof. Dr. Heinz Beck, who conducts research in experimental epileptology at the Department of Epileptology, at the Life & Brain center and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).

In the current study, the researchers used high - affinity antibodies to «label» the cannabinoid receptors so they could be seen using various microscopy techniques, including electron microscopy, which allowed very detailed visualization at individual synapses, or gaps between nerve cells.

It may, for example, partly account for the differences in brain structure and behavior between identical twins, and could even affect thought processes by subtly influencing the changes in nerve cell connections that occur with experience.

How that might eventually predispose a person to Alzheimer's is still unclear, but it may involve a receptor molecule for the herpes virus in the connections between nerve cells.

In the present study, we have investigated the role of 5 - HT in the communication between taste receptor cells and afferent nerve fiberIn the present study, we have investigated the role of 5 - HT in the communication between taste receptor cells and afferent nerve fiberin the communication between taste receptor cells and afferent nerve fibers.

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.

They homed in on astrocytes, a type of brain cell that clears the signaling molecule glutamate out of the way after it has performed its job of delivering a message across a synapse between two nerve cells.