Sentences with phrase «brain cell types»

So for our model of this disease, which we are currently developing, we have to generate a variety of other brain cell types besides neurons that are thought to foster immune responses in the brain.

They used the forebrain, the first mini-brain with the six layers of brain cell types found in the human cortex, for the current study on Zika.

«Birds and primates share brain cell types linked to intelligence: Bird and reptile brains have a vastly different anatomy from mammalian brains, but contain cell types linked to mammalian cognitive abilities.»

The device, part of the Lab's iCHIP (in - vitro Chip - Based Human Investigational Platform) project, simulates the central nervous system by recording neural activity from multiple brain cell types deposited and grown onto microelectrode arrays.

Grima is currently working on answering this question using a new mouse model developed at Johns Hopkins that will allow him to isolate these nuclear pore proteins from different cell types in the mouse brain to identify whether these nuclear pore components are in fact different based on brain cell types and brain locations.

Two other more mature brain cell types, astrocytes and microglia, which can migrate in the brain, also express the AXL gene.

It might be easier and more productive to use a different brain cell type called astrocytes.

«We also found that our AAV variants containing this key amino acid footprint preferentially get into neurons rather than other brain cell types,» Asokan said.

The researchers found that alligators share these cell types as well, suggesting that while mammal, bird and reptile brains have very different anatomical structures, they operate using the same shared set of brain cell types.

In tests using human neural progenitor cells (NPCs)-- self - renewing, multipotent cells that generate neurons and other brain cell types — the scientists found that exposure to sofosbuvir not only rescued dying NPCs infected with the Zika virus, but restored gene expression linked to their antiviral response.