Sentences with phrase «cells in a particular region»
The eyeblink conditioning is stored in a small number of cells in a particular region of the cerebellum.»
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As Goutsias explains, this distribution reflects the chance that a particular region of a genome will be methylated in a population of similar cells.
The technique analyzes the spatial organization of chromatin in a cell and detects all the genomic regions that interact with a particular region of interest.
Researchers at the Humboldt and Charité Universities in Berlin, led by Dr Julie Seibt from the University of Surrey, used cutting edge techniques to record activity in a particular region of brain cells that is responsible for holding new information — the dendrites.
They depend on other cells and growth factors that may or may not be present in a particular region of inflamed tissue, says Rocky Tuan, who directs the Center for Cellular and Molecular Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
John O'Keefe discovered that certain cells in a region of the brain called the hippocampus preferentially fired, or were activated, when an animal was in a particular environmental location — the first description of «place cells».
We need to modify brain activity in humans to test whether particular brain regions contribute to perception and behavior, and we need to do the same in animals to modify activity in particular cell - types to understand the molecular basis of these processes.
Cells were considered saccade - related if they showed an increase in firing rate around the onset of saccades towards a particular region of the visual field.
The final stage is headed by Jian Jin, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will develop new compounds that will allow researchers to even more precisely activate the G - coupled receptors of individual cell types in the particular brain regions.