Sentences with phrase «fewer nerve cells»

«This is surprising because patients with Huntington's disease have fewer nerve cells in the subthalamic nucleus.

The sex - specific differences — the smaller hippocampus, the presence of fewer nerve cells, the existence of immune system macrophages in places they shouldn't be — were also found in adulthood.

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.

A month after H7N7 or H3N2 infection, mice had fewer nerve cell connectors called dendritic spines on cells in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory.

Not exact matches

But since white fat cells have very few nerves, how do beige fat cells get the message that it's cold outside?

In research that has implications for diabetes and other metabolic diseases, an international study based at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that the protein connexin 43 (Cx43) forms cell - to - cell communication channels on the surface of emerging beige fat cells that amplify the signals from those few nerve fibers.

One possibility is that it's just random events during development, that as a few neural stem cells in a fetus give rise to a hundred billion nerve cells in an adult human brain, a lot of stuff happens.

Writing in 2014 in the European Journal of Neuroscience, Leuner and colleagues reported that in rats with symptoms of postpartum depression (induced by stress during pregnancy, a major risk factor for postpartum depression in women), nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens atrophied and showed fewer protrusions called dendritic spines — suggesting weaker connections to surrounding nerve cells compared with healthy rats.

In both cases, the immune cells produced fewer inflammatory molecules, particularly one called interleukin 17, or IL - 17, which is strongly associated with MS and very harmful to nerve cells and their insulating covers.

Thanks to this less efficient, albeit still functioning, receptor, the naked mole rat still winds up with an adequate nervous system, but with fewer pain nerve cells.

Zinc is the second most abundant trace metal in the human body (next to calcium) and an essential dietary nutrient that's crucial for normal cell growth, a strong immune system and healthy nerve function — to name just a few of its widespread influences.

Humans have many cell types - nerve cells, blood cells, skin cells, to name a few - and while each cell contains the same genetic instructions, different parts of the genetic information are used to produce proteins in each type of cell.

But when it clumps into soluble clusters consisting of a few molecules, it's highly toxic to nerve cells.

There is approximately 4 mg of glandular derived cholesterol per capsule to nourish cell membranes, to support hormones (including the synthesis of vitamin D), to synthesize neurotransmitters and to support overall nerve function — just to name a few.

Release: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 [Theater] Written by: Jessica Sharzer Directed by: Henry Joost; Ariel Shulman If you accept the dare to watch Nerve, understand a few conditions first: 1) this is a teen - centric, sexed - up adventure thriller set in the Twitter Age, thereby you are volunteering up brain cells you're never going to use again; 2) James Franco's not... Continue reading Nerve

Stem cells can divide and turn into tissues such as skin, fat, muscle, bone, cartilage and nerve, to name a few.