Sentences with phrase «causes brain stem cells»

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Since the first human brain organoids were created from stem cells in 2013, scientists have gotten them to form structures like those in the brains of fetuses, to sprout dozens of different kinds of brain cells, and to develop abnormalities like those causing neurological diseases such as Timothy syndrome.

Zika virus infection in pregnancy causes severe disability in babies by attacking stem cells in the developing brain.

Using human fetal «mini-brains» grown in 3 - D cultures, scientists determined that a specific protein produced by the Zika virus changes the properties of neural stem cells in the developing brain of an infected fetus, potentially causing microcephaly in newborns (Ki - Jun Yoon, abstract 103.06, see attached summary).

But this ability to infect brain stem cells may prove useful for fighting deadly brain cancers, many of which are caused by mutated stem cells.

«Disturbances to these processes may cause neuronal stem cells to develop into different types of cells or may cause neurons to migrate to different locations in the brain, changing neuronal circuitry and potentially leading to behavioral disorders like schizophrenia.»

The impulse starts with excitation of the left retina, then travels down the optic nerve to cells in the midbrain and brain stem, which excite neurons near both eyes that cause the pupils to constrict.

The team injected about 2000 mouse embryonic stem cells each into the brains of 25 rats who had previously had their dopamine - producing neurons damaged, which causes a characteristic tendency to move in circles.

Studying a new type of pinhead - size, lab - grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes microcephaly and other damage in fetal brains: by infecting specialized stem cells that build its outer layer, the cortex.

«Now, flies, human stem cells and autopsied brains are all telling us the same story here, that this is a fundamental defect causing disease,» says Rothstein.

• Combining stem cells with gene therapy, an international collaboration announced the success of a pilot study to treat X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a fatal brain disease caused by a mutation of the gene coding for the ALD protein.

Several tests in cultured cells indicated that ganciclovir would cause the death of HSV - TK - expressing stem cells, and testing in the mouse model confirmed that administration of the drug after successful treatment of brain metastases successfully eliminated therapeutic stem cells that also expressed HSV - TK.

Previously, stem cells were found only in bone marrow, brain tissue and fetal tissue — sources that have caused both logistical and ethical problems.

Strengthening the link between Zika virus and microcephaly, scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered that a protein the virus uses to infect skin cells and cause a rash is present also in stem cells of the developing human brain and retina.

The research finds that changes to one of these genes, called Dbx2, could prematurely age brain stem cells, causing them to grow more slowly.

By manipulating a specific gene in a mouse blastocyst — the structure that develops from a fertilized egg but is not yet an actual embryo — scientists with the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute caused cells destined to build an embryo to instead change direction and build the cell mass that leads to the placeCell Institute caused cells destined to build an embryo to instead change direction and build the cell mass that leads to the placecell mass that leads to the placenta.

When created from the stem cells of a patient with microcephaly, the brains - in - a-dish resembled that often - fatal condition; those created from cells of patients with severe autism indicated that out - of - control neuron growth is the underlying cause of that disorder.

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Likewise, conscious stimulation of effort to move legs from the brain causes the nerves of the spinal cord to fire, releasing the same chemicals that can stimulate the local stem cells to heal the damaged spinal cord.