Sentences with phrase «cell bodies of»

At this stage animals are large enough such that the cell bodies of motor neurons in the ventral nerve cord are well spaced, making it less ambiguous in deciding if presumptive gap junction puncta are associated with a particular motor neuron.

The average brain contains 80 - 90 billion neurons, the cell bodies of which form «gray matter.»

In some instances of damage to the nigrastriatal axis, such as methamphetamine toxicity, the cell bodies of SNpc dopaminergic neurons remain alive while their nerve terminals in the striatum degenerate (Ricaurte et al., 1982).

And so what the ganglion is, is it's basically the cell bodies of the nerve, o the axons, which are the cables that the electrical information travels down.

It is possible that the 5 - HT3 receptor that we demonstrate in the ganglion cell somata is not transported to the distal processes that innervate taste buds but other receptors present in cell bodies of taste ganglia are, including P2X receptors (Bo et al., 1999) and GLP - 1 receptors (Shin et al., 2008).

Circled green spots are the cell bodies of two dNPF neurons, one in each hemisphere of the fruit fly brain.

They dominated the images, with cell bodies of brain cells evenly speckling capillaries like pebbles in a steel wool sponge.

He discovered differences in grey matter volume, which contains the cell bodies of nerve cells, in two specific locations.

The nuclei of the T and dendritic cell are colored green, the cell body of the dendritic cell is shown in grey.

Venter has already transferred the genome of one species into the cell body of another.

Most of the vibrant color probably comes from algae living in the single - celled bodies of the dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans.

The technique offered precise localization of dynamic microtubule plus - end hub protein EB1 dimers, and their distinct distributions at the leading edge and cell body of migrating cells, the researchers report.

Local protein synthesis in dendrites, not in the cell body of nerves, provides the ability to respond rapidly and selectively to external stimuli.

Dendrites, which branch from the cell body of the neuron, play a key role in the communication between cells of the nervous system, allowing for many neurons to connect with each other.

Not exact matches

The start - up's premiere product, the Thin Ice vest, uses cold therapy to target areas of the body with high concentrations of thermoreceptors, which are nerve cells that are able to detect the presence of hot or cold temperatures.

Instead of being injected into the bloodstream and exposed to the rest of the body's tissue — with all the unpleasant side effects, as is the case with chemotherapy — these agents only target cancer cells.

[Water weight] is extra water that's hanging around the tissues, joints, and body cavities between cells,» says Abbey Sharp, RD, owner of Abbey's Kitchen.

One of the most remarkable facts about the human body — indeed, about the great mass of living things — is that nearly every cell carries the complete genetic blueprint for the entire organism.

Immunotherapy differs from more traditional cancer treatments, such as surgery (cutting malignant cells out of the body), chemotherapy and radiation (poisoning the deadly mutants), and even the newer, more precise molecular drugs that attempt to jam the protein signals that tell tumor cells to keep dividing and conquering.

Think of that for a moment: Each of the tens of trillions of cells in your body has, in effect, the complete set of keys to the kingdom.

One of the first tools the BioHub will work on is a cell atlas to categorize all of the cells found in the human body.

Interleukin - 1 is important for developing the killer T cell response against the virus, but it also affects the part of the brain in the hypothalamus that regulates body temperature, resulting in fever and headaches.

The initial immune response involves cells of the body's innate immune system, such as macrophages and neutrophils.

Scientists can create tissue to see how it will respond to chemicals or medicines, and an individual's own cells can be used to create a replica tissue sample for a more accurate forecast of how that person's body will react.

The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy will focus on the emerging field of cancer immunotherapy, which harnesses the body's immune system to fight cancer cells.

Speaking of Novartis — the company's experimental CTL019, which is expected to be the first approved drug in a revolutionary new cancer treatment space that turns the body's own immune cells into cancer - killers, is already facing some apprehension from doctors and patient groups who are worried about its eventual pricing.

Based on a 3D image such as an MRI scan, Aspect's machine builds relatively complex organic structures out of a «hydrogel» embedded within cells taken from the body and grown in a cell culture.

That means there could be other benefits to storing your cell phone in a backpack or desk instead of keeping it next to your body.

Researchers blasted rats with full - body doses of RF radiation (mostly at higher levels than those associated with cell phones) from the time they were born until they were two years old for nine hours a day.

In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T - cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.

Biotech giant Gilead Sciences is beefing up its cancer drug portfolio with a $ 11.9 billion deal to buy Kite Pharma, a company focused on a groundbreaking new class of treatments that turns the body's own immune cells into targeted blood cancer killers.

While the mechanisms at play aren't totally understood, he said, young organisms» blood not only contains all sorts of proteins that improve cell function; somehow it also prompts the recipients» body to increase its production of those proteins.

The Wave uses five layers of varied density foam, including the open cell foam that's used in the upper layers of the Wave to regulate your body temperature.

That means that the stem - cell therapies have to be converted into whatever cell they're meant to be (heart - muscle cells, neurons, and so forth) before going into the body, rather than using different kinds of stem cells to treat the condition.

Hoping to learn something about how the human body defends itself against cancer, he had zeroed in on a complex regiment of lymphocytes called T cells, common to the immune systems in both mouse and man.

You need to feel it in every cell of your body.

The screening tested nearly 500 employees, primarily in search of insulin resistance, a condition that prevents the body from properly processing the hormone that promotes the absorption of glucose from the blood into your cells.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

About half of the patients in a Kymriah study got cytokine - release syndrome, a response to the reprogrammed cells running loose in the body.

This new kind of approach to fighting blood cancers is truly personalized; immune T - cells are extracted from patients, genetically tinkered to home in on an destroy cancerous cells, multiplied in a lab, and then jolted back into the patient's body within about two weeks.

It's a type of cancer immunotherapy, which harnesses the body's immune system to take on cancer cells.

In diseases such as malaria and sickle cell disease, red blood cells break down, with harmful effects on the rest of the body — particularly the lining of small blood vessels.

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

Even so, they faced an unexpected challenge: a shortage of platelets, cells that help the body stop bleeding.

Much less trillions of cells that are each more complex than anything man has created working in harmony in our bodies to keep us alive!

The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

It's an adhesive that holds the cells of our bodies together.

According to the National Institutes of Health's definition, however, pluripotent embryonic stem cells are «the embryonic source of all cells of the body.»

Adult stem - cells are now being used to grow new body - parts that can be implanted with no risk of rejection, the latter being the single largest cause of organ rejection and subsequent death.