Sentences with phrase «for cell movement»

Microtubules even come into play on the outside of cells, forming into cilia and flagella that allow for cell movement.

Not exact matches

Let us be thankful that a tool for discrediting the pro-life movement (shaming us for opposing magical cures promised by embryonic stem - cell research) has itself been taken out of their hands.

This unnatural and forced movement of water changes vaginal cell shape and biology for the worse and can lead to tissue damage, irritation, and general disruptions to the vaginal ecosystem.

Moving up to 2006, Mike mentioned an SMS - driven electoral victory in South Korea, a successful petition drive in South Africa and a movement to send peace messages to Iraqi cell phones (for a look at less pacific uses of cell phones in the war in Iraq, see this article from a couple of months ago).

The new model overcomes a long - standing barrier to accessing hair cells, the delicate sensors in the inner ear that capture sound and head movement and convert them to neural signals for hearing and balance.

«We don't know what [the government] will do with it, but we shall remain vigilant,» says Alain Trautmann, co-director of the cell biology department at the Cochin Institute and spokesman for the protest movement.

One of the molecular mysteries hindering development of regenerative therapy for muscles is uncovering the precise genetic and molecular processes that cause skeletal muscle stem cells (called myoblasts) to fuse and form the striated muscle fibers that allow movement.

While investigating mouse eye cells, Botond Roska and his team at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, noticed that one type behaved unusually in response to movement.

Stem cells have long been heralded as a potential treatment for a range of brain ailments, but research has so far focused on movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

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

Using tiny electrodes, they monitored the response of brain cells responsible for movement.

He and colleagues have determined what gives cholera bacteria their curved shape and whether it matters (a polymer protein, and it does matter; the curve makes it easier for cholera to cause disease), how different wavelengths of light affect movement of photosynthetic bacteria (red and green wavelengths encourage movement; blue light stops the microbes in their tracks), how bacteria coordinate cell division machinery and how photosynthetic bacteria's growth changes in light and dark.

Labeling biomolecules with light - emitting nanoparticles is a powerful technique for observing cell movement and signaling under realistic, in vivo conditions.

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

They may sound like weapons for Ant - Man's next nemesis, but the microscopic lasers could greatly improve biologists» ability to track the movement of individual cells.

Using a novel approach for imaging the movement of immune cells in living animals, researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases (CIID) have identified what appear to be the initial steps leading to joint inflammation in a model of inflammatory arthritis.

These biochemical processes are responsible for a broad range of movement in living organisms, including moving molecules around the interior of a cell or copying DNA into another form of genetic material, RNA.

For the first time, stem cell researchers have succeeded in getting transplanted nerve cells to establish connections with other neurons to improve movement in paralyzed rats.

Moreover, perceptual experiments can be designed to ask which subdivisions of the system are responsible for particular visual abilities, such as figure / ground discrimination or perception of depth from perspective or relative movement — functions that might be difficult to deduce from single - cell response properties.

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.

Anatomical and physiological observations in monkeys indicate that the primate visual system consists of several separate and independent subdivisions that analyze different aspects of the same retinal image: cells in cortical visual areas 1 and 2 and higher visual areas are segregated into three interdigitating subdivisions that differ in their selectivity for color, stereopsis, movement, and orientation.

MONKEYS with a Parkinson's - like disease have been successfully treated with stem cells that improved their movement for up to two years after transplant.

In order to track the movements of biological particles in a cell, scientists at Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center have developed a powerful analysis method for live cell microscopy images.

Plant cells contain a dynamic cytoskeleton which is responsible for directing cell growth, development, movement, and division.

For them, Levin thinks «there's a kind of twitchy program going on» in which photosensitive cells — the researchers aren't sure which ones — bypass the brain and directly spur the muscles into movement.

The work, to appear in the August issue of Neuron and tomorrow's issue of Cell, could lead to new treatments and perhaps cures, for these ailments, which are characterized by wild, uncoordinated movements.

It is a viral infection that takes up residence in the spinal cord and brain and attacks the neurons, or nerve cells, responsible for movement.

The task of how to automatically track the movement of biological particles such as viruses, cell vesicles or cell receptors is of key importance in biomedical applications for the quantitative analysis of intracellular dynamic processes.

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have identified a new way of triggering the role of the muscle protein dystrophin, which is found in the muscles used for movement and in cardiac muscle cells.

For cancer to progress, cancer cells modify normal signaling, movement, and growth processes.

Thus, researchers can observe microscopic action, such as cell and molecular movements, for longer periods of time.

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.

Motor neurons, which are important for voluntary muscle movements, have long been known to release acetylcholine onto both muscle cells in the body and neurons in the spinal cord.

Shenoy's lab pioneered the algorithms used to decode the complex volleys of electrical signals fired by nerve cells in the motor cortex, the brain's command center for movement, and convert them in real time into actions ordinarily executed by spinal cord and muscles.

The three characteristics scientists use to identify a chromosome are readily visible in an ideogram: length; the banding pattern of the dye, which reflects the type of nucleotides concentrated in the chromosome; and the location of the centromere, a waistlike constriction required for proper movement during cell division.

The result could be useful for understanding the movement of water when squeezed inside tiny channels, for instance, in carbon nanotubes or cell membranes.

Scientists use it as a model organism for studying cellular signals, disease, and the movement of cells in response to a chemical stimulus (chemotaxis).

At least partially responsible for this is the presence of a diffusion barrier that restricts movement of molecules from one side to the other side of the cell during cell division.

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.

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.

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.

Exocyst is necessary for WRC recruitment at the leading edge and for resulting cell edge movements.

The Potato virus X TGBp3 protein associates with the ER network for virus cell - to - cell movement.

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.

Chemosensing is an active process, and for a cell to follow a chemical gradient, it must coordinate the activity of a swarm of protein «signals» that lead to the cell's movement.

The Potato virus X TGBp2 protein association with the endoplasmic reticulum plays a role in but is not sufficient for viral cell - to - cell movement.

The clinical consortium is led by AFFiRiS itself, and in addition to the PD booster trial, it is now recruiting for a separate Phase I trial of the α - synuclein vaccine against MSA, a synucleinopathy differentiated from PD or LBD based on the cell populations affected, the regional concentration of AS neuropathology, and the spectrum of movement and other symptoms.

[31,32] The additional layers protect against tissue abrasion, and the lack of tight junctions allows for the free movement of molecules between cells.

Eventually, the perimeter of the cancer cells are alerted, which paves way for detachment and movement of the cells to rest of the body.

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.