Sentences with phrase «docking site»

In the brain, this substance stimulates specific docking sites for the messenger serotonin.

This allows the «nano - gears» to form long tubes using the additional docking sites in a second step.

This establishes the first clear link between the morphology and function of docking sites.

They mediate interaction between cells and the environment, and often serve as docking sites for pathogens.

Small molecules that latch on to the body's cannabinoid receptors can make other docking sites on the receptor change shape to fit the body's natural cannabinoids.

«Molecular docking site of a bacterial toxin identified.»

Therefore, before the action potential even arrives at the presynaptic terminal, vesicles containing neurotransmitter line up in a fusion - ready state at docking sites in the presynaptic terminal.

Black suggested the Royal Dock site to the boss of ABP, Xu Weiping, and even registered a company called ABP London China to help push the project forward, though the company was dissolved two years later, and she says she established it without the knowledge of Xu Weiping.

Functionally, docking sites limit the maximum number of vesicles that can be released at each action potential, this determines the strength of the synapse.

They found that the number of functional docking sites matches the number of clusters of voltage-gated calcium channels in the presynaptic terminal.

The new work, reported online in the 28 February issue of Nature, modifies the Cas9 enzyme, creating at least four times as many potential docking sites.

Bellen and Venken attached artificial docking sites to phages — a virus that targets bacteria — which they introduced in both the bacteria and in the fruit fly genomes to act as sticky points for the DNA segment being implanted in the latter's genome.

In one variant, the arm will rotate freely between random stopping points; in another, it will dwell in specified positions the researchers call docking sites.

Each artist now has just six months to prepare their contribution to the prize exhibition, which will go on show to the public at Tate Liverpool's Albert Docks site this October.

The alternate approach is to devise approaches which block entrance of the virus by directing agents at the human cell surface sites which serve as docking sites for the virus (i.e., shut the door).

The pharmacologists and toxicologists Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Aktories and Dr. Panagiotis Papatheodorou from the University of Freiburg have identified the molecular docking site that is responsible for the C. difficile toxin's being able to bind to its receptor on the membrane of the intestinal epithelium.

In addition, the number of docking sites and the number of calcium clusters change in parallel with brain age and synaptic size.

One key gene encodes the making of a receptor called TREM2, a docking site for molecules on the surface of microglia and other innate immune cells.

This mutation is on a particular receptor, or docking site, on the cancer cells that is crucial to the cell's growth and survival.

This docking site functions like an elevator, transporting the toxins into the cell's interior.

This protein also serves as a docking site for diagnostic markers and different drugs, such as Valium.

The cholesterol transporter TSPO in the outer mitochondrial membrane serves as a docking site for important diagnostic markers and for a number of drugs such as diazepam.

The theory is that with these docking sites blocked, interleukin - 1 will simply pass out of the system and the inflammation will subside.

«A docking site per calcium channel cluster: Researchers find link between morphology and function of synapses.»

Until now, a clear link between the functional aspect of docking sites and their morphological aspect as sites where vesicles dock could not be established in the mammalian brain.

A study co-led by Ryuichi Shigemoto, Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), with Alain Marty, Professor at Université Paris Descartes, uncovers that a single docking site may use a single cluster of calcium channels and that both the number of docking sites and the number of calcium clusters change in parallel with brain age.

This led the researchers to a major conclusion, as Shigemoto explains: «Based on our results, we suggest that for each docking site, there is a corresponding cluster of voltage-gated calcium channels.

Engineered RNA modules were assembled into discrete, one - dimensional, and two - dimensional scaffolds with distinct protein - docking sites and used to control the spatial organization of a hydrogen - producing pathway.

The Ret receptor is the cells» docking site for the growth factor GDNF, which is produced by the body.

Although not an antioxidant, the mineral partially blocks cells» docking sites for glutamate, the chemical signal that overexcites nerve cells when noise becomes excessive.

The researchers then inject a chemical photoswitch into the eye, «basically, a glutamate dangling on a light - sensitive string,» says Isacoff, «which anchors to the modified receptor and stuffs the glutamate into its docking site on the receptor when activated by light.»

Situated in front of the gene, this switch, called an enhancer, is a docking site for proteins that control the gene's activity.

If the T cells lack the docking site for type 1 interferon, however, they are hunted down by the NK cells and exterminated.

Once PA attaches to the cell, it forms a docking site for two anthrax proteins called lethal factor (LF) and edema factor (EF).

This docking site is often utilized by Norwegian Cruise Lines.

Topics like station density, dock siting and data collection standards may not make for flashy headlines in the mainstream media, but they are important to equity as to other measures of success.

Some important lessons in a forklift training done in a driving school involves teaching the students the things that needs to be checked before driving into a trailer at a dock site and the right way of arranging the pallets to make sure the load will be distributed properly.

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