Sentences with phrase «brain protein known»

Svendsen injected into their brains a protein known to enhance neural development, called glial cell line - derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF).

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REM sleep is speculated to be a «processing» of sorts that the brains of many animals perform, but I didn't know it had anything to do with folding or repairing improperly folded proteins... what's that based on?

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You should also know that eggs are nature's perfect food, providing excellent protein, the gamut of vitamins and important fatty acids that contribute to the health of the brain and nervous system.

As they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.

Degenerative brain diseases like mad cow disease (officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), scrapie in sheep, and vCJD in humans are thought to be caused by prions, misfolded versions of a normal cellular protein called PrPC.

A human liver cell contains the same DNA as a brain cell, yet somehow it knows to code only those proteins needed for the functioning of the liver.

This process known as «alternative splicing» and allowing a single gene to generate multiple protein variants is especially prevalent in the mammalian brain.

A third group first got an injection of a compound known to block the effects of interleukin - 1 beta (IL - 1), a protein involved in activating the inflammatory immune response and shown in previous research to be a key player in modulating fetal brain injury following exposure to inflammation in the womb.

Smith says her group is investigating whether PET imaging of serotonin could be a marker to detect progression of disease, whether alone or in conjunction with scans that detect the clumping protein known as amyloid that accumulates in the brains of those with Alzheimer's disease.

Studies of brain structure and correlations with levels of a protein known as BDNF (brain - derived neurotrophic factor) will also be performed using these findings.

Although the researchers do not yet know how disruptions in TOP3B affect brain development, they say the most likely explanation is that it changes the shape of the RNA, and thereby disturbs which RNA molecules get copied into proteins.

«Prion proteins with a trimmed version of the flexible tail can, however, no longer damage the brain cells, even if their switch has been recognized by antibodies,» explains Adriano Aguzzi.

Scientists have long known that a bath of protective proteins in the brain, known as neurotrophic factors, can help curb the progression of Parkinson's disease by keeping those dopamine - producing neurons healthy.

He and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, injected the brains of mice with prions they had created in the lab by misfolding normal prion protein, known as PrP.

Arising from the abnormal buildup of a protein known as alpha - synuclein in the brain, such conditions damage the nerves that control blood pressure and heart rate.

The researchers also discovered that a receptor — known as GluR4 — that the NPTX2 protein usually targets in the brain is also found in the kidney cancer samples.

A protein fragment called amyloid - beta (Aβ) is known to aggregate and create plaque in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

The groundbreaking study identified a protein, known as cadherin - 22, as a potential factor in cancer metastasis, or spread, and showed that hindering it decreased the adhesion and invasion rate of breast and brain cancer cells by up to 90 per cent.

When prion protein molecules are sequestered by their misfolded counterparts, they can no longer work as a scaffold for all these molecular interactions, which impairs the mechanisms evoked by the brain chemicals important for mood.

They reached this conclusion during studies of mice engineered to build up protein fragments in their brains known to cause the disease.

Secreted by certain brain cells, APOE is known to regulate cholesterol metabolism within the brain and can bind to A-beta peptides, suggesting that the different forms of the protein may affect whether and how toxic A-beta plaques form.

In several diseases of the brain, long fibres of protein form, and eventually become tangled to form dense bodies known as «plaque» or «aggregates.»

Scientists have known for some time that the mutated form of the huntingtin protein impairs mitochondria and that this disruption kills brain cells.

The researchers wanted to know which signals in the brain were responsible for building long - term memory and for forming the special proteins involved.

A protein known as FosB in the reward centre of the brain alters in chronically ill people suffering from an addictive disorder (e.g. heroin addiction): it is genetically modified, split off and shortened.

A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's includes dementia and two distortions in the brain: amyloid plaques, sticky accumulations of misfolded pieces of protein known as amyloid beta peptides; and neurofibrillary tangles, formed when proteins called tau clump into long filaments that twist around each other like ribbons.

A protein known as FosB in the reward centre of the brain alters in chronically ill people suffering from an addictive disorder.

Boyden and colleagues first described the underlying technique, known as expansion microscopy (ExM), last year, when they used it to image proteins inside large samples of brain tissue.

Disruptive clumps of mutated protein are often blamed for clogging cells and interfering with brain function in patients with the neurodegenerative diseases known as spinocerebellar ataxias.

In a report on one of the two findings, published online Sept. 20 in Acta Neuropathologica, the investigators identified alterations in a protein known as ATRX in human brain tumors that arise as part of a genetically inherited condition known as neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).

Shi and colleagues don't yet know why tweaking the protein makes the virus kill brain cells more readily.

Two new strains of mad cow disease, the brain - destroying killer linked to rogue proteins known as prions, turned up this year in Europe.

In earlier research involving fruit flies, Professor Verstreken had already demonstrated that a protein known as «Skywalker» plays a crucial role in maintaining communication between brain cells.

Researchers have long known that in about half of FTD cases, brains are speckled with protein clumps containing tau, a protein implicated in Alzheimer's and other brain diseases.

By disabling the gene for that key protein in test animals, the scientists were able to home in on the mechanism by which that brain region, known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus or SCN, becomes the body's master clock while the embryo is developing.

However, the team was able to show that so - called tight junction proteins, which are known to be important for the blood - brain barrier permeability, did undergo structural changes and had altered levels of expression in the absence of bacteria.

Infamous for causing fatal degenerative brain diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known more commonly as «mad cow disease,» Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, and scrapie, prions are proteins that have the ability to self - perpetuate when they assume a particular conformation.

Inside these cells is a protein called alpha - synuclein, which is known to go awry and lead to damaging clumps in the brains of Parkinson's patients, as well as those with Alzheimer's disease.

When they stripped the vesicles of protein and their genetic cargo and injected them back into mice, the blood cells no longer went to the site of brain injury.

Now, though, at the very moment in which a rat remembered the shock, the scientists injected an antibiotic that inhibits the synthesis of new proteins into its amygdala — a part of the brain long known to store lasting memories of fearful experiences.

But other lipids are known to guide cell migrations in human brain development, and geneticist Ken Howard of University College London suspects HMG - CoA reductase might help produce a similar lipid molecule or modify a protein that attracts the germ cells.

«All along, we knew that synuclein was a good candidate,» says Polymeropoulos, because other researchers had shown that the protein is expressed in several brain areas, including the ones that deteriorate in Parkinson's.

To see what was happening in the brains of these ankyrin - G mutant mice, the researchers analyzed the cell components in inhibitory synapses connecting with pyramidal neurons, finding that two proteins known as GAT1 and GAD67 — responsible for making the neurochemical GABA that dials back nerve impulses — were at much lower levels in the synapses on pyramidal neurons in ankyrin - G mutant mice than in normal mice.

Researchers know that in the body, the protein molecules associated with CAA form plaques that lodge in blood vessel walls in the brain, but there haven't been detailed examinations of the molecular structure of these plaques until recently.

Chen and his team began by studying how reactive glial cells respond to a specific protein, NeuroD1, which is known to be important in the formation of nerve cells in the hippocampus area of adult brains.

Scientists now know that scrapie is caused by misfolding proteins in the brain called prions, the same mechanism that causes Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans.

Immunotherapy is a promising strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer's that uses antibodies to stimulate the immune system to remove pieces of a protein called amyloid beta which accumulates in the brain (in deposits known as plaques) and is thought to be a major factor driving Alzheimer's neurodegenerative effects.

Zhang, who earned an M.D. from the Peking University Health Science Center in China and a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, was recruited in 2007 to the Texas team that expected to see an increase of brain metastasis when PTEN, a known tumor - inhibiting protein, was artificially deleted in a tumor cell.