Sentences with phrase «controls cell movements»

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If we don't control our cells dividing, blood circulating, heart beating, bowel movements, breathing, etc., then how is it that we can control our destiny?

The cerebellum is the part of the brain responsible for posture, balance and movement, and the researchers focused on those cells that control blinking.

It is controlled, in part, by a series of channels on the surface of heart cells that regulate the movement of different ions into and out of the cells.

The disease is caused by the accumulation of abnormally shaped α - synuclein proteins in neurons, leading to particularly toxic effects in dopamine - releasing cells located in brain regions that control movement.

In Parkinson's the pathways are thought to be out of balance, with interrupted motor cells causing the debilitating tremors and loss of movement control symptomatic of the disease.

An inherited disorder that results in the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain, Huntington's leads people to lose control of their speech and movement, as well as to cognitive decline.

In Parkinson's disease, they are used to turn down the excessive firing of discrete clusters of nerve cells that control movement.

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.

Front and center in this process is the motor neuron, the nerve cell that controls movement.

Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have uncovered new insights into how stem cells transform into brain cells that control leg movements.

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

They possess a suite of features lacking in their simpler brethren: a nucleus that houses DNA; an energy - producing device known as the mitochondrion; and molecular architecture, known as the cytoskeleton, that controls cell shape and movement.

What's more, these glial cells were the ones that specifically build the scaffolding for the motor neurons that were born from the same stem cells and ultimately control leg movement.

And because the Purkinje cells are so closely connected to the motor neurons, the changes to those synapses are going to result in changes to the movements that Purkinje cell controls.»

Neurons that coordinate those movements, known as Purkinje cells, and ones that provide feedback when there is an error or unexpected sensation, known as climbing fibers, work in close concert to fine - tune motor control.

All of the diseases, which cause the death of brain cells involved in controlling body movements, have recently been traced to specific genes.

The polarity site (yellow traces) is a sensor, processor and motor all in one — a multifunctional instrument that controls cell growth and movement.

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.

In 2004, surgeons placed a tiny 100 - electrode array in his primary motor cortex, the brain region that controls voluntary movement, to collect electrical impulses from nerve cells and send them to a series of signal processors.

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.

Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence that disruptions in the movement of cellular materials in and out of a cell's control center — the nucleus — appear to be a direct cause of brain cell death in Huntington's disease, an inherited adult neurodegenerative disorder.

The disease destroys the brain cells that control body movements.

To do so, the team looked to the mechanisms that control the movement of cells into the bone marrow in the first place — CXCR4, a chemokine receptor, and its ligand, CXCL12.

By contrast, all eukaryotic cells, which evolved from bacteria and make up all plants and animals, have cytoskeletons that control structure and internal cellular movement.

These research findings deliver new insight into the neuronal control of movement termination in vertebrates: «Stop cells» are brainstem neurons that affect neural networks in the medulla as command neurons and quickly end body activity.

A third class transfers the SNOs to additional proteins that control numerous additional cellular functions, including growth, movement and metabolism, and also protect cells from injury.

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

Parkinson's leads to the loss of brain cells that make dopamine, a chemical that helps control body movements.

A small molecule in cells that was previously believed to have no impact on animal behaviour could in fact be responsible for controlling precise movements, according to new University of Sussex research.

The researchers describe «a finely tuned orchestration of three domain movements» that allows the receptors to elegantly control passageways across cell membranes.

A study comparing children between 7 and 11 years of age who have moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea to children the same age who slept normally, found significant reductions of gray matter — brain cells involved in movement, memory, emotions, speech, perception, decision making and self - control — in several regions of the brains of children with sleep apnea.

British - born Thomas Jessell, Professor of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Columbia University in New York, US, has worked for more than two decades to understand how nerve cells in the developing spinal cord assemble into the circuits that control sensory perception and movement.

Other Gladstone scientists are investigating the network of brain cells that controls movements to figure out how its dysfunction leads to the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Researchers from Aarhus University conducted a case - control study on the condition of the dopamine - producing nerve cells in the brain and cells that participate in the brain's immune system in people suffering from rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD).

Again, prostaglandins are important because they appear to promote cancer by activating pathways that control cell growth and movement.

The researchers are analysing cancer tissues from a group of TNBC patients looking for two proteins that interact to control the movement of cancer cells in distant organs.

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.

The blood - brain barrier is a collection of specialized cells and proteins that control the movement of molecules from the blood to the central nervous system.

Motor neurons are long and complex nerve cells that control voluntary movement.

An elaborately orchestrated genetic program transforms generic neural cells in vertebrate embryos into motor neurons that control specific muscular movements.

Changes were found only in the experienced meditators.26 Another study found threefold changes in GE in the immune cells after yoga versus a control movement program.27 These studies suggest that there are greater changes in experienced meditators than in novices after one bout.

ALS usually strikes between the ages of 40 and 75, ravaging the body's motor neurons — nerve cells that control muscle movement.

British - born Thomas Jessell, Professor of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Columbia University in New York, U.S., has worked for more than two decades to understand how nerve cells in the developing spinal cord assemble into the circuits that control sensory perception and movement.

In this disease, cells that make the neurotransmitter dopamine, which helps control movement, die.

Corticobasal degeneration is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by nerve cell loss and atrophy (shrinkage) of various regions of the brain, including the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia (which helps to start and control movements, as well as other functions).

This symposium will provide unique perspective vertebrate head evolution, detailing the evolution of motor systems controlling jaw and head movements, eye movements, parasympathetic control of all head glands and facial branchial motor derived gain control of inner ear hair cells.

This protein helps control the growth and division (proliferation) of cells, the process by which cells mature to carry out specific functions (differentiation), cell movement (motility), and the self - destruction of cells (apoptosis).

Super Vegan Anaconda extends an enjoyable rendition of cell - phone standard Snake, this time with fluid control rather than movement across discrete grid spaces.

At times the lack of precision control over movement makes bouncing and spinning one's way to Princess Peach's holding cell more relieving than satisfying, like surviving a war zone you were forced to charge through instead of displaying platforming prowess voluntarily.