Sentences with phrase «cells controlling muscles»

The condition, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, attacks and kills nerve cells controlling muscles, leading to weakness, paralysis and, ultimately, respiratory failure.

Fresh insights into how our cells control muscle development could aid understanding of muscular dystrophy and other inherited diseases.

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But it is not actually the crucial question, which is, What controls the activity of the complex interacting set of genes, which produces a nerve cell or a muscle cell?

Protein plays many important roles, such as repairing the body's cells, building and repairing muscles, helping build and maintain bones, and helping control many metabolic processes.

They are a rich source of vitamin C and flavonoids, which are powerful antioxidants, vitamin K that increases bone mass, potassium that helps electrolyte regulation, nerve function, muscle control, and blood pressure, folate that supports red blood cell formation and fiber.

HEALTHY muscle cells exposed to fat can become like cells taken from people with diabetes, with the genes that control fat - burning permanently switched off.

«We also study how to control living muscle tissue by electrical stimulation of the cell,» he says.

The investigators found that when LIF - treated muscle stem cells were transplanted to skeletal muscle, they formed two to three times more muscle fibers as control cells did.

Inside your cells, proteins allow your body to break down food to power your muscles, send signals through your brain that control the body, and transport nutrients through your blood.

Other proteins work as muscles, control metabolism and immune response, or transport oxygen in the red blood cells.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, might damage muscle - controlling nerve cells in the brain earlier in the disease process than previously known, according to research from the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

The disease is known to affect motor neurons — nerve cells that control muscles — in the brain, brainstem and spinal cord.

Motor neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain and spinal cord control the function of muscles throughout the body.

When a spinal cord injury takes place, extensions of nerve cells from the brainstem — the region of the brain where the command and coordination for urination takes place — become disconnected from cells in the spinal cord that control the muscles that squeeze or relax the bladder and open and close the urethra.

Decades of work in developmental biology have provided a start: Biologists have used mutant frogs, flies, mice, chicks, and fish to identify some of the main genes that control a developing cell's decision to become a bone cell or a muscle cell.

The media is made mostly of smooth muscle cells that help control the flow and pressure of the blood within.

Scientists have discovered a way in which proteins in our cells help to control genes in our DNA, which are involved in forming muscle.

Moreover, her studies are the first to indicate that therapies targeted at controlling the properties of smooth muscle cells within lesions may be highly effective in treating a disease that is the leading cause of death worldwide.

Muscular Dystrophy is a hereditary condition marked by weakness and progressive wasting of the muscles, while ALS impacts nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

The brain controls movement by sending electrical signals to our muscles through nerve cells.

Searching for a way to help people regain control over their unreliable bladders, Anthony Atala, a urologist at Children's Hospital Boston, injected stem cells from the limb muscles of rats into their deliberately damaged urinary sphincters, which control flow.

The researchers traced stem cells as they matured into motor neurons, which are the type of nerve cells that control muscle movement.

Whether either or both of these explanations are confirmed, the fact that individual Purkinje cells are able to distinguish when their corresponding muscle neurons encounter an error must be taken into account in future studies of fine motor control.

The rare progressive condition attacks nerve cells located in the brain and spinal cord responsible for controlling voluntary muscles.

Ruvkun's lab later demonstrated that the daf - 2 pathway functions specifically within the worm's neurons — and not elsewhere, such as in muscle cells — to control life span.

The research also answers a long - standing question about why motor neurons, the nerve cells of the spinal cord that control muscle movement, form much faster than other types of neurons.

For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have been developing a class of walking «bio-bots» powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical and optical pulses.

For the first time, scientists found that in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the affected nerve cells that control muscle movement, or motor neurons, have defects in their mitochondria, which generate energy used by the cell.

Light - controlled cardiac muscle cells guide swimming of an artificial animal.

The calcium ion controls processes ranging from muscle contraction to cell division.

Instead, the genetic identity of each subtype of cells — what makes those that control the quadriceps muscle different from those that control the calf muscle for instance — is also important.

In studying the functional behavior of the brain, from control of muscles to the formation of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical imaging.

They have generated excitement over the past few decades because scientists can study them in the laboratory to discover the genetic switches that control the development of specialized tissues in the embryo and fetus, and also because of their potential to replace body tissues that have broken down, such as pancreatic cells in those with diabetes or heart muscle cells in those with congestive heart failure.

Motor neuron disease (MND) is a group of diseases in which the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow slowly degenerate and die.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks muscle - controlling nerve cells — motor neurons — in the brain, brainstem and spinal cord, leading to progressive weakness and eventual paralysis of muscles throughout the body.

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects neuronal cells in the brain and the spinal cord, which send signals to control muscles throughout the body.

Signals from these cells to the muscles weaken in victims, resulting in atrophy, speech disruptions and, eventually, total loss of control over movement.

More than 30,000 Americans live with ALS, a condition that destroys motor neuron cells that control essential muscle activity, such as speaking, walking, breathing and swallowing.

For his dissertation research, which he'll begin this fall, he will try to untangle the network of proteins that controls how mesenchymal stem cells differentiate into bone, muscle, and other tissue.

Researchers in the US and Sweden say that the protein can prevent the destruction of brain cells that are lost in Parkinson's, and protect the motor neurons which control muscles.

The contractile activity of smooth muscle cells in the walls of cerebral arteries determines the degree of constriction they experience (known as arterial tone) and thereby controls blood flow.

They found that not only does the tissue harbor CBS and CSE, but CSE is also present in the smooth muscle cells and peripheral nerves that control erection.

They control both the transport of ions inside the cell itself and to the outside, all in complicated processes necessary to make the muscle able to contract,» explains Sørhus.

These signals control actin fibers, the cell's muscles: The fibers bend the cell envelope from inside and form membrane bubbles into which the bacteria are absorbed.

In addition, their studies also had implicated the protein in pathways that controlled cell death in heart muscle.

A fraction of the FTD patients show symptoms consistent with ALS, a disease in which the nerve cells that control the muscles, in the brain and spinal cord, are affected.

For quality control, researchers want to figure out how to ensure that the stem - cell - derived cardiac muscle or neural progenitor or pancreas cells (or whatever) are as pure as possible.

In the present seminar, I will summarize our findings concerning the role of Srf in myofibers to control muscle mass and I will present recent data identifying Srf as a master regulator of muscle stem cell fusion and demonstrating the implication of F - actin architecture in this process.

This consortium of researchers, clinicians, and patients, has «systematically investigated and graded» evidence for over 35 «alternative» treatments for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal disease that destroys the nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

Motor neurons that control foot muscles are about three feet long, so neurotransmitters must be moved a yard from their origin in the cell body to the location where they can signal the muscles, Zhang says.