Sentences with phrase «brain cells involved»

The evidence against neonicotinoids now exists in key bee brain cells involved in learning and memory, in whole bees, entire colonies and now at the level of whole populations of wild bees.

A study comparing children between 7 and 11 years of age who have moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea to children the same age who slept normally, found significant reductions of gray matter — brain cells involved in movement, memory, emotions, speech, perception, decision making and self - control — in several regions of the brains of children with sleep apnea.

In a report on the mouse studies, published online Sept. 11 in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), the investigators say the genetic alteration appears to release the biochemical «brakes» on brain cells involved in body movement, reasoning and perception of the world, triggering over-excited activity and reactions.

RATS are ticklish just like us, and their reaction has now been used to identify the brain cells involved.

All of the diseases, which cause the death of brain cells involved in controlling body movements, have recently been traced to specific genes.

Goadsby doesn't know yet if the brain cells involved are bigger than those in normal patients or if there are simply more of them; that would require the dissection of a brain.

Eichenbaum cautioned that there are a limited number of brain cells involved in encoding memories that are reused in different ensembles.

Their study, reported in the journal PLoS Computational Biology, suggests that breast feeding not only taps the normal brain cells involved in secreting oxytocin.

The brainiest creatures share a secret — an odd kind of brain cell involved in emotions and empathy that may have accidentally made us conscious

Not exact matches

That's because the brain is involved, and — as an astoundingly complex network of 100 billion cells and their 100 trillion connections — the organ does not easily loose its secrets.

Hence, there is no particular «psychophysical matter» involved in the brain cells and their functions.

«In animal studies, exercise has been shown to specifically affect the hippocampus, significantly increasing the growth of new neurons and cell survival, enhancing memory and learning, and increasing molecules that are involved in the plasticity of the brain,» Chaddock said.

She demonstrated that early experience leads to lasting changes in the molecular structure of the brain and discovered a gene involved in the spread of brain cancer cells into healthy brain tissue.

The genes in the network are thought to be involved in how brain cells communicate with each other.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»

«The pathway mainly involves signalling via the brains» immune cells, and thus differs from how today's drugs operate.

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

A «Trojan horse» treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

Svendsen is more optimistic about his team's work involving human tests of a novel stem cell approach to treat ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease in which cells that transmit messages from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles wither or die.

Now experiments suggest genes involved in cell stickiness may have given our brain its folds

Several studies have supported a role for cancer stem cells in the aggressive brain tumors called glioblastoma, but those studies involved inducing human tumors to grow in mice, and as such their relevance to cancer in humans has been questioned.

Chemogenetics builds on optogenetics, which involves genetically engineering brain cells so that they fire in the presence of light.

A technique that involves genetically engineering brain cells so that they fire in the presence of certain drugs has been used to treat epilepsy in rats, and it could soon be tested in humans.

The first step in the process involves inserting into those brain cells a gene that makes a light - sensitive protein.

It found that genes associated with depression are involved in brain cell development, and that there was overlap between these genetic regions and those linked to schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.

One clinical trial involves the drug CGF166, a one - time gene therapy, which, if proven successful in humans, could regenerate new hair cells within the cochlea that can signal the part of the brain that processes sound.

Another potential tactic involves pumping the immune cells and toxic molecules out of the brain — considered a futile quest until just a couple of years ago.

The olfactory system comprises six million to 10 million receptor cells (of which there are nearly 400 different types) and links to multiple brain structures and neural pathways, including those involved in memory, emotion and movement.

Modern brain - imaging techniques that track blood flow and cell activity indicate the precuneus is involved in imagination, self - consciousness and reflecting on memories.

A month after H7N7 or H3N2 infection, mice had fewer nerve cell connectors called dendritic spines on cells in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory.

Lewy bodies are protein deposits that develop in nerve cells in regions of the brain involved in thinking, memory and movement.

He examined the direct impact of the substance on neural effects using tests involving brain cells.

The findings highlight specific sets of genes and the brain cells they affect as being involved in regulating anxiety.

Mice with a form of dementia have had the condition reversed by a process that involves «rebooting» brain cells otherwise destined to die.

Studying breast and brain cancer cells in a hypoxia incubator, Uniacke and his team discovered that cadherin - 22 is involved in this process to enable the spread of cancer cells.

Cell Phones Alter Brain Metabolism: A 50 - minute phone call boosts metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional procesBrain Metabolism: A 50 - minute phone call boosts metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional procesbrain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional processing.

Some, for example, pointed to genes that expressed themselves in brain cells, or that involved immune function, a previously established connection.

In most animals, nutrition involves components specialized in the regulation of nutritional supply and demand (in most animals, for example, the brain controls the needs of the body cells).

Human nerve cells involved in the process are spread throughout the brain.

One of the genes involved in feeding the big brain, called SLC2A1, builds a protein for transporting glucose from blood vessels into cells.

In addition, the two genes are turned on in areas that are part of the cortico - striatal - thalamo - cortical circuit, a loop of brain cells connecting the cortex to specific regions involved in processing emotions and movement.

FosB is a transcription factor in the brain which, together with other molecules, is involved in so - called signal transduction (transmission of stimuli to the cells), that is to say conveys genetic information between the cells and also determines whether certain genes are activated or not.

In both humans and flies, dopamine - releasing cells may help coordinate distant brain regions involved in the phenomenon of attention.

«The surprising result is that even though only a very localized population of cells is used in the brain - computer interface, the brain recruits many other areas that aren't directly involved to get the job done.»

Using a powerful gene - hunting technique for the first time in mammalian brain cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have identified a gene involved in building the circuitry that relays signals through the brain.

A technique that involves genetically engineering brain cells so that they fire in the presence of certain drugs has been used to treat an epilepsy - like condition in rats, and it could soon be trialled in humans.

In both mouse and fruit fly embryos, Detlev Arendt, an evolutionary biologist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, has found that cells involved in forming the brain and nerve cord divide into three columns of cells.

They injected live brain cells from mouse embryos into the amygdalae of adult mice — the parts of the brain involved in fear.