Sentences with phrase «cell connections helps»

The ability to form new nerve cell connections helps you better adapt and respond to stressful situations.

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«Exposure to different sounds and scenes is essentially what helps establish connections from one set of neurons — the nerve cells of the brain — to another.

Your baby's brain cells make important connections during sleep, which help with learning, movement, and thought.

In healthy brains, the gene helps prune unnecessary connections between cells.

Glia - making cells from people with schizophrenia also mostly failed to turned into astrocytes, which help neurons connect and determine when those connections, or synapses, fire.

The research, published and featured in the Spot Light section of the December edition of the Journal of Virology, examines a previously unknown connection between flaviviruses — a classification of viruses that include West Nile virus, Dengue virus and tick - borne encephalitis virus — and organelles (a specialized subunit within a cell) known as peroxisomes that help coordinate the body's immune responses.

They may supply crucial insulating material for neurons, called myelin; digest and clean up dead cells in the brain; and help form and maintain the connection points between neurons and other cells.

Shaw and others believe sleep helps the brain reinforce connections between brain cells that encode important memories and cut back connections that encode useless information.

In the last few years, scientists have found that the supposedly placid cells help neurons form connections with each other (ScienceNOW, 26 January 2001) and might even be stem cells themselves (ScienceNOW, 15 June 1999).

Cells isolated from newborns» umbilical cords help neurons make new connections (shown in yellow) with their neighbors.

Variants of a protein that helps snip connections between nerve cells in the brain may contribute to the disorder, scientists report January 27 in Nature.

The investigated connections between Myc, energy metabolism and apoptosis will help us to understand the biochemistry of cancer cell apoptosis.

NRXN1 and CNTN6 are important during brain development and produce molecules that help brain cells form connections with one another.

Learning and storing memories, for example, requires brain cells to produce proteins that help create long - lasting connections in the brain.

Further tests suggested that epithelial cell progenitors helped by restoring the connection between cells called myoepithelial contractile cells and the lacrimal gland's secretory cells, which produce tears.

Her hope is that this fundamental understanding of Stentor's regeneration process will help clarify the connections between regeneration and cell division, leading to new, broader insights about how cells produce and maintain their shape.

The new technology, developed by Salk scientists and published in Neuron, is helping researchers understand how spinal cord cells make connections with motor neurons, and how clinicians might be able to repair those connections in patients with spinal cord injuries or neurodegenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

The team singled out the gene Mecp2, which encodes a protein that regulates the expression of genes that help forge connections between nerve cells.

Early animal studies have shown that stem cells isolated from umbilical cord blood can stimulate cells in the spinal cord to regrow their myelin layers, and in doing so help restore connections with surrounding cells.

Understanding the biochemical processes that are important for maintaining these connections may help address the abnormalities in nerve cells that occur in these disease states.

«We need a range of models to learn about the connections among genes, molecules, cells, synapses and circuits in normal and abnormal cognition and behavior, and to help us understand the risks of particular patients,» says the Broad Institute's Steven Hyman.

It is this second tool that we hope will help us make connections between the mountains of data we collect in a dish and the mountains we collect from the patients whose cells we are analyzing.

«We showed that 3K3A - APC helps the grafted stem cells convert into neurons and make structural and functional connections with the host's nervous system,» Zlokovic said in a university news release.

«Using your brain is going to help build up those synapses, build up those connections, so that if a terrible disease starts killing those nerve cells, you have more of a reserve.»

When you are happy you release the happy hormone SEROTONIN, serotonin makes connections, it helps the brain cells to conduct messages across the synaptic gap.

If there is a connection between temperature and gestational diabetes risk, cells called brown fat might help explain it.

And you tell a story by utilizing a seemingly conveniently placed and miraculously functional cell phone, then you continue to build tension as the protagonist tries in vain to remember important phone numbers or get anyone on the phone to believe him as he pleads for help over a tenuous cell connection.

When a stem cell receives neurotransmitters, they are stimulated to help make the connection, build the covering of the nerve or repair damaged nerves.

«We're calling on all Mahoning Valley citizens to make a small sacrifice of support by donating their unused cell phones to help provide families with a much - needed connection to their loved ones overseas.»