Sentences with phrase «cells in the brain»

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

Nerve cells in our brains control our circadian rhythms, which influences sleep - wake cycles, hormone release, emotions and energy levels.

We are teaching the T cells, the lymphocytes, multiple cells to be more proactive in cleaning up the cancer cells in the brain.

First, it maybe mediated through the cells in the brain.

Lately I've begun to thank God for it, this chemical that — if scientists are right, and they aren't even sure — inhibits my overly efficient reuptake of another chemical (serotonin) that somehow facilitates communication between nerve cells in my brain.

By virtue of a complicated arrangement of cells in the brain, there is at the human level emergent a mental state marked by what I have styled awareness.

A cell in my brain is different from a cell not in my brain but, say, in a culture of cells in a dish.

Mirror neurons are miraculous cells in the brain whose sole purpose is to harmonize us with our environments.

Maybe one day someone may construct an exact copy of the millions of cells in the brain with billions of connections with microchips and whatever, then set electronic currents flowing.

Rather, it is represented such that if some cells in the brain are removed this does not destroy just a part of the image but reduces the clarity of the image as a whole.

The consumed caffeine caused dopamine, a carrier of messages between nerve cells in the brain, to flood the brain's pleasure center resulting in decreased pain sensitivity, a huge benefit for chronic pain suffers.

Do you 3 even use your gray cells in the brain area to imagine what heights this current Arsenal squad can reach uninjured if Fabregas sticks with us for a few more years?

This damages some of the nerve cells in the brain, and affects my dad's memory, decision - making and personality.

Dr. Allan Schore, the UCLA researcher, shows that cortisol (stress hormone) released during intense crying harm nerve cells in the brain.

Multiple ultrasounds will move cells in the brain around and also affect future generations of your family.

This simply means exposing kids to a wide variety of tastes, smells, textures, colors, and sounds — experiences that can create more pathways between the cells in their brains.

It helps the body form red blood cells and supports the formation of genetic material in every cell in the brain and throughout the body.

These 24 - hour biological clocks has a «master clock», which is a group of nerve cells in the brain (with a big name that I'm not going to bore you with).

It helps the development and growth of blood cells and the formation of genetic material in every cell in the brain and throughout the body.

«New findings about stem cells in the brain of patients with epilepsy.»

That success represents a dilemma for neuroscience, said bioethicist Hank Greely of Stanford University: «When you make a chimera with human cells in its brain, the closer the resulting brain is to human» in structure and function and «the greater the ethical and public concern.»

A small cluster of stem cells in the brain seems to help mice stay young, and injecting extra stem cells helps them live longer.

The best explanation so far, says Henrietta van Praag, a neurobiologist at the National Institute on Aging, is that exercising the heart somehow stimulates growth factors to produce new nerve cells in the brain.

In animal models, the researchers found that using microRNA to disrupt cells in the brain's prefrontal cortex — a region associated with complex planning and decision - making — affected learning and memory later in life.

According to the latest studies from the fly laboratory of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) biologist David Anderson, male Drosophilae, commonly known as fruit flies, fight more than their female counterparts because they have special cells in their brains that promote fighting.

Scientists have discovered why a single mutated protein can lead to serious mental retardation in men with a common genetic disorder called fragile - X syndrome: The healthy protein is essential for establishing during childhood the adult pattern of connections between nerve cells in the brain.

The cells also underwent tiny zaps of electricity, which allowed researchers to see how the neurons might have communicated with other nerve cells in the brain.

When both mice and people navigate, specialised «place» cells in the brain's hippocampus fire.

The males also had fewer nerve cells in their brains and their brains contained a type of immune cell that shouldn't be present there.

Microglia are the only cells in the brain that express the receptor CX3CR1.

Rats have cells in their brains» entorhinal cortex that appear to generate an internal grid of triangles, and which fire as the animals navigate around a space.

This type of inflammation between 18 and 32 weeks of gestation in humans has been linked to preterm birth as well as an imbalance of immune cells in the brain of the offspring and even death of nerve cells in the brains of those children.

The problems can be traced to loss of nerve cells in the brain areas responsible for those capabilities — such as the basal ganglia, brain stem and cerebral cortex.

«We still don't know very much about how individual cells in the brain coordinate the activity of higher - level function that defines us as humans,» he says.

Small amounts of glycogen are found in the kidneys, and even smaller amounts in certain glial cells in the brain and white blood cells.

The traditional view is that learning is based on the strengthening or weakening of the contacts between the nerve cells in the brain.

Nerve cells in our brains work together in harmony to store and retrieve short - term memory, and are not solo artists as previously thought, Western - led brain research has determined.

Adam Sachs (left) and Julio Martinez - Trujillo (right) have discovered that nerve cells in the brain work together to store and retrieve short - term memory.

But there are also certain things that if an investigator like [s] to do, and I came from cellular neurobiology having learnt from Grundfest and from Wade Marshall and from my period at the NIH how to study nerve cells in the brain; and I was until that point studying complex organisms — a cat; Aplysia fitted me to a tee.

HBI member V. Wee Yong, PhD and research associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compromised.

After imaging defiant metastatic cells in the brains of mice, researchers noticed that the cells that were able to survive grew on top of blood capillaries, each cell sticking closely to its vessel «like a panda bear hugging a tree trunk,» Dr. Massagué says.

«Much of this is regulated by support cells in the brain.

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.

Mysterious cells in your brain, known as glia, outnumber your neurons 10 to 1, and nobody knows what they do.

It reveals specialized cells in the brains of mice dividing to create newborn nerve cells.

The new findings prove that a group of cells in the brain can turn a short - lived sensation into complex, long - lasting muscle movements, says physiologist Simon Alford of Northwestern University.

The findings, which focused on support cells in the brain called astroglial cells, appear online today in Nature Communications.

It has been particularly difficult to measure changes in electrical functions of cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal cells in the brain or beating heart cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.

As expected, the mice had more microglia activation and other inflammation - causing immune cells in their brains.

Researchers from UC Davis School of Medicine and Shriners Hospitals for Children — Northern California have identified a group of cells in the brain that they say plays an important role in the abnormal neuron development in Down syndrome.