Sentences with phrase «distinct cell types»

The human organism contains hundreds of distinct cell types that often differ from their neighbours in shape and function.

To replicate the cell interactions in the developing heart, the scientists developed a novel method of growing two distinct cell types together.

The Penn team unexpectedly found that what they thought were two irreversibly differentiated and distinct cell types in the kidney could convert to each other.

Thus phenotypically «undifferentiated» cells may consist of a heterogeneous population of functionally distinct cell types.

«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»

In the next 5 years, the team will be building a comprehensive online resource database for the scientific community that will include distribution maps and cellular morphologies for over 100 distinct cell types throughout the mouse brain.

Publishing in Cell Reports this week, a team led by Sara Cherry, PhD, an associate professor of Microbiology, screened a library of 2,000 bioactive compounds for their ability to block Zika virus infection in three distinct cell types using two strains of the virus.

Multipotency or multidifferentiative potential - the ability to generate progeny of several distinct cell types, for example both glial cells and neurons, opposed to unipotency - restriction to a single - cell type.

Simon's favorite approach is to examine the context of the cell - properties that make distinct cell types unique in their normal and cancerous states.

Animals consist of many distinct cell types, all of which originate during development from a single cell: the fertilized egg...

Very little is known on SAC signaling in normal tissues in vivo, and whether distinct cell types exhibit differences in SAC activation.

By analyzing genetic markers, he identified three distinct cell types in the SFO: one set of excitatory cells, one set of inhibitory cells, and a third population of supporting cells known as astrocytes.

By far the most popular use of scRNA - sequencing is to identify groups of cells which are similar to eachother and might correspond to functionally distinct cell types.

This contrasts with an idea that has been dominant in neuroscience for many years: that the neocortex is made up of nearly identical «cortical columns» — a standard circuit of distinct cell types that connect across the cortex's six layers — which tile the cortical surface like the hexagons in a honeycomb.

Each is a protein that serves to flag a distinct cell type in the mammalian brain.

This variation of the distinct cell types comes from the differential expression of genes, which is controlled by interplay between different regulators within the cells, such as transcription factors, the transcription machinery, and the «epigenetic» modifications (which do not change the underlying genetic code) that occur on the DNA and protein factors within chromatin.

Five days after fertilization, two distinct cell types are visible in the developing embryo, which is now called a blastocyst.

I think what we are seeing with this study is just the tip of the iceberg, where the process of protein production is probably quite different in distinct cell types.»

The grand architecture of the human cortex, with its hundreds of distinct cell types, begins as a uniform layer of neural stem cells and builds itself from the inside out during several months of embryonic development.

«The retina, like all body organs, contains multiple, distinct cell types.