Sentences with phrase «brain neural tissue»

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The thyroid interestingly is thought to help in transferring heat to the baby and affects the woman's metabolism and how she handles the pregnancy and the brain is where the tissue affects neural circuitry which is directly responsible for the Mom / baby bonding and bonding and attachment in the early days and beyond.

These fatty acids are critical to helping babies develop retinal (eye) and neural (brain) tissues.

Scientists have long speculated that astrocytes, the cell type that controls many neuronal functions, give rise to neural stem cells in damaged brain tissue.

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

The collaboration, led by Wen Shen and Mark Allen of the University of Pennsylvania, found that the extracellular matrix derived electrodes adapted to the mechanical properties of brain tissue and were capable of acquiring neural recordings from the brain cortex.

However, not only do neural prosthetic devices suffer from immune - system rejection, but most are believed to eventually fail because of a mismatch between the soft brain tissue and the rigid devices.

They tested neural tissue from people who had died from Huntington's disease, a degenerative disorder of nerve cells in the base of the brain.

Days 21 - 23: A furrow of tissue that gives rise to the brain and spinal cord has now begun to fold together, forming the neural tube.

During certain types of brain surgery, neural tissue must be removed, either because it is tumorous or because it gives rise to epileptic seizures.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

It's otherwise hard to say whether a brain blob truly recapitulates the neural tissue that scientists claim it does.

The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neural tissue in the brain and is one of the most extensively studied brain structures in the field of neuroscience.

Human neural stem cells are derived via fluorescence - activated cell sorting (FACS) from donated fetal brain tissue.

In contrast, the Stanford team's neural structures not only self - assembled as cortexlike tissue, the neurons also sent signals to one another in coordinated patterns — just as they would in a brain.

Although researchers knew that hyaluronic acid shows up in neural tissue, they did not know it played such a critical role in human brain development.

This brain belonged to a donor who agreed to have his neural tissue archived.

The team found that people have large numbers of neural stem cells and progenitors early in life — an average of 1618 young neurons per square millimeter of brain tissue at birth.

Working with the brains of six normal children and seven autistic children ages 2 to 16, most of whom died of drowning, Courchesne has studied neurons under the microscope and even counted the number of neural cells in different tissue samples.

Several specimens of the species, Fuxianhuia protensa (left), contain dark areas within their eye stalks (see fossil, above right; gray areas in sketch, bottom right) that represent preserved clusters of neural tissue, including clumps along the optic nerve (labeled 1 through 3 in the sketch) and the brain (lowermost mass).

Although they could not grow a second brain elsewhere in the body, they succeeded in growing full neural tissue.

Researchers hope the material could one day be used to replace metallic, implanted neural electrodes with biopolymer electrodes that soften as soon as they touch moist neural tissue, thus avoiding damage to the fragile brain.

Several years ago, one of the students in Verma's lab noticed that BRCA1 is very active in the neuroectoderm, a sliver of embryonic tissue containing neural stem cells that divide and differentiate into the brain's vast assortment of cell types and structures.

At some point between the first amphibians moving onto dry land and the evolution of mammals, the neocortex arose — extra layers of neural tissue on the surface of the brain.

Using their model, the team has shown that induced neural stem cells, or iNSCs, can replace stroke - damaged brain tissue and stimulate neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to naturally repair itself.

Two weeks later, the researchers found the brain - derived cells in the regenerating muscle tissue — suggesting that neural stem cell lines might be candidates for treating certain muscle diseases.

Neural stem cell lines derived from human fetal brain tissue achieved the same feats, the researchers report in the October issue of Nature Neuroscience.

In mice and humans alike, the cerebral cortex — the outermost layer of brain tissue associated with high - level functions such as memory and decision - making — starts out as a spherical sheet of tissue made up of only neural stem cells.

Natural neural stem cells — cells that can develop into other brain tissues — are found deep in the brain, in the subventricular zone and hippocampus.

He said he used techniques to differentiate pluripotent stem cells into cells that are designed to become neural tissue, components of the central nervous system or other brain regions.

Challenges stem from the kinetic nature and mechanical softness of brain tissue, tissue responses to implanted foreign bodies as well as our limited ability to control neural circuits and regenerative processes in situ.

To identify the molecular mechanisms of neural stem cell plasticity in adult zebrafish brain after various types of tissue damage or physiological stimulations

«Compared to conventional neural probes, the much - reduced dimensions of our NET - e probes allow us to implant the devices at previously unattainable high densities without damage to brain tissue,» Wei tells nanotechweb.org.

Microinjection of membrane - impermeable molecules into single neural stem cells in brain tissue.

We can now predict confidently that to crack the neural code in mapping the human brain, neuroscientists will have to develop an account of the connections and tissue properties of these active wires.

Neural stem cells are found in adult or fetal brain and spinal cord or derived from embryonic stem cells, which have the capacity to become any cell type in the body, or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, tissue - specific cells that are reprogrammed in the lab to behave like embryonic stem cells.

... on my head is a Vielight photobiomodulation device for enhancing alpha brain wave production and increasing mitochondrial activity in neural tissue...

This is because 40 percent of the nerve fibers in the brain connect to the eye and roughly half of our neural tissue is related to vision.

The neural tube, according to the fact sheet, «is the embryonic structure that eventually develops into the baby's brain and spinal cord and the tissues that enclose them.»