Sentences with phrase «certain types of neurons»

How do genetic mutations in selected genes lead to elective degeneration in certain types of neurons in HD, PD, and ALS?

Drugs that target neuregulin 3 could help restore glutamate levels in certain types of neurons — a novel approach to schizophrenia treatment.

Researchers have begun using genetically encoded sensors to monitor the behavior of individual neurons, and they've been using brief pulses of light to trigger certain types of neurons to activate.

The data would be used to better predict human response to countermeasures, viruses or pharmaceutical drugs, and could help scientists determine if certain types of neurons are more susceptible to exposure.

«If you had a hunch that a certain type of neuron might be important for a particular behavior,» he says, «you could use this technique to see if that's the case — to find out whether activating those neurons elicits the behavior artificially.»

Neurona's founders have discovered that certain types of neuron transplants can rebalance nervous system activity, repair neural circuits, and rescue multiple animal models of disease.

Not exact matches

But as people get older, certain neurons die and there is reduced capacity, so these types of drugs may help.»

A unique feature of this DREADD system not found in other methods is that it is not limited to the control of neurons — activity levels of certain enzymes in almost every tissue type can be controlled to probe mechanisms of basic cellular function.

While retroviruses generally only infect dividing cells (because their access to the host genome is thought to rely on the breakdown of the nuclear envelope that occurs in mitosis [Roe et al., 1993]-RRB-, lentiviruses are a genus of the retroviral family that can infect non-dividing cells (possibly through the use of nuclear localization signals by the viral components [Bukrinsky et al., 1992]-RRB-, and thus, offer an advantage when transducing certain cell types that exhibit limited cell division (e.g., neurons).

One 2015 study reported that brains of super agers are thicker in certain areas than normal brains, and also have fewer tangles (a type of protein associated with Alzheimer's disease), and a large supply of neurons linked to social intelligence.