Sentences with phrase «cell of the nervous system»

The study also discovered that M. lepromatosis has retained the genes needed to infect cells of the nervous system called Schwann cells.

Among the 14 described GLUT proteins, GLUT1 is — under physiological conditions - mainly responsible for supplying cells of the nervous system with glucose, an essential source of energy for these cells [1].

About five years ago, a team of Stanford University scientists set out to determine how the developing brain establishes its final set of synapses, connections through which cells of the nervous system communicate with one another and with nonneural cells.

Neurobiology is the study of cells of the nervous system and the organization of these cells into functional circuits that process information and mediate behavior.

Neurons are specialized cells of the nervous system that communicate using electrical signals, which propagate down long, wire - like projections called axons.

Montani suspects that the breakdown of neurons could be caused by reduced synthesis of lipids in the myelinating cells of the nervous system, among other factors.

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.

And on page 1693, another team reports further evidence of the action of natural selection in people: A gene expressed in microglia, immune cells of the nervous system, produces a protein found only in humans.

Humans obviously regenerate some cell types very well, such as skin, muscle and liver cells, but almost not at all in cells of the nervous system or with any complex tissue systems.

It's no accident, for instance, that both early studies of embryonic stem - cell therapies — those of Geron and Advanced Cell — involved cells of the nervous system.

The Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCLs) are a group of inherited neurodegenerative diseases characterized by accumulation of autofluorescent cytoplasmic antibodies within cells of the nervous system.

The virus infects cells of the nervous system, producing incoordination and behavioral abnormalities such as unusual aggression or withdrawal.

Scientists describe these infectious connections as virological «synapses» because they resemble the way that cells of the nervous system or the immune system communicate through intimate cell - to - cell connections.

Neurons, the cells of the nervous system, communicate by transmitting chemical signals to each other through junctions called synapses.

«The second aim of the study was to see whether pancreatic insulin and enzyme secretions are controlled by different types of vagal motoneurons — the cells of the nervous system that control motor functions of the pancreas through the vagus nerve.»

Caltech biologists have modified a harmless virus in such a way that it can successfully enter the adult mouse brain through the bloodstream and deliver genes to cells of the nervous system.