Sentences with phrase «for hair cell»

SOX2 continues to be expressed in the inner ears of mice lacking Math1 (also known as Atoh1 and HATH1), a gene essential for hair cell differentiation, whereas Math1 expression is absent in Lcc mutants, suggesting that Sox2 acts upstream of Math1.

The scientists also identified a genetic pathway for hair cell regeneration and detailed how proteins in that pathway cooperate to foster the process.

ATOH1 is a transcription factor necessary for hair cell development.

Not exact matches

Birds, for example, can regenerate hair cells — and lately researchers have found a few similar effects in mammals that used gene and drug therapy.

Same goes for the yak but a bit easier since we could agree upon only say hair still attached to the follicle and extruding from the base cell of a dead yak on ice.

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Vitamin A is important for healthy white blood cells, good immunity and for vibrant eyes, skin and hair.

A particularly effective treatment against many cancers, platinum - based chemotherapy, has the unfortunate side effect of damaging the hair cells in the ear that are responsible for sensing sound waves, Goldrich said.

Exposure to either very loud sounds or continuous exposure for long periods of time can bend or break these hair cells.

Vitamin A also supports bone growth as well as cell and tissue health for strong nails, skin and hair.

The Lanugo hair will start to disappear as the new brain cells and fat help to regulate the body temperature for the remaining weeks in the womb

Statements like these make me forget so, so easily that I don't take pictures with my cell phone (except for when the baby or kitten's momentary cuteness needs to be captured for posterity), that I don't want to dye my hair while I'm nursing, and that like my feathered friends, I'm a vegetarian.

Your birth plan / wish list Prepaid calling card or cell phone and a list of phone numbers of family and friends Your favorite pillow A headband or hair tie A breastfeeding pillow Two nursing bras A box of disposable breast pads Disposable underwear (your hospital may provide this) A loose going - home outfit for you A cozy going - home outfit for baby

In 2014, Christiano and other CUMC researchers identified the immune cells responsible for destroying hair follicles in people with alopecia areata and tested an FDA - approved drug that led to complete hair regrowth in a small number of patients.

Now, Nicole Kallweit and her colleagues at Laser Zentrum Hannover in Germany have found evidence for the latter: their system did not work in guinea pigs which had intact auditory nerves but were missing their hair cells.

CIB2, which is short for calcium and integrin - binding protein 2, is essential for the structure of stereocilia, the structures at the top of the sensory hair cells in the inner ear.

Specialized sensory neurons in the inner ear, called hair cells, are responsible for the detection of sounds, and this information is transmitted to the auditory cortex via several intermediate structures.

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.

Prof. Jean - Christophe Marine (VIB - KU Leuven): «Unexpectedly, this ability to divide and contribute to melanoma development contrasted with the activities of other cell populations, such as melanocyte stem cells found in hair follicles, for instance.

Previous approaches were only marginally effective as they reached one set of hair cells in the inner ear, but another subset — equally critical for hearing — remained largely impenetrable.

Because hair cells are also critical for the sense of balance, mice with damaged or missing hair cells show balance abnormalities.

«To treat most forms of hearing loss, we need to find a delivery mechanism that works for all types of hair cells,» said neurobiologist David Corey, co-senior investigator on the study and the Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science at HMS.

The accuracy for human eye and hair color is much higher at 0.9, and chronological age — based on T cell receptors — is the same.

NERVE cells with huge potential for treating paralysis could be made from a person's own skin or hair follicles, making spinal repair a more realistic prospect.

The source of new hair: For the first time, researchers have been able to take human dermal papilla cells (those inside the base of human hair follicles) and use them to create new hairs.

The proposal would have waived an often - cumbersome permitting process for handling samples of everything from hair and DNA to cell lines derived from endangered species.

«Dermal papilla cells give rise to hair follicles, and the notion of cloning hair follicles using inductive dermal papilla cells has been around for 40 years or so,» said co-study leader Colin Jahoda, PhD, professor of stem cell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the ficell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the fiCell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the field.

They wanted to count and measure individual hair cells, and human hair was too thick for that.

Still, by identifying the human hairless gene as an important master switch in regulating cell death in a hair follicle — a discovery that could lead to gene therapies for unwanted hair growth — Christiano emerged as a new star in the field, and a glamorous one.

The current study identified a new role for a particular group of proteins, known as RFX transcription factors, in the development and survival of the hair cells.

«The Isl1 gene further preserved the connections between hair cells and neurons, which is necessary for hearing,» said senior author Zheng - Yi Chen, D.Phil., Mass..

In order for birds and mammals to hear, hair cells in the cochlea — the auditory portion of the inner ear — vibrate in response to sounds and thereby convert sound into electrical activity.

Dust, hair, the sloughed - off skin cells of NASA workers — all are contaminants in their own right and, more important, nutritious meals for whatever microbes might be around.

The new study — published online May 26 in Cell — suggests that defects in Tregs could be responsible for alopecia areata, a common autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss, and could potentially play a role in other forms of baldness, including male pattern baldness, Rosenblum said.

«By analyzing mice with the WNT10A mutation, as well as tissues from human patients with WNT10A mutations, we found that WNT10A regulates the proliferation, but not the maintenance, of stem cells in hair follicles,» said Sarah Millar, PhD, vice chair for Basic Research in the Department of Dermatology.

As a new hair grows, some melanocyte stem cells become melanocytes, which give the strand its color, while others remain stem cells and store pigment for the next generation of hair.

For example, in both the blood - cell - producing and the hair - follicle niches, different stem cell types need to coordinate their individual production.

The results, published in tomorrow's issue of Cell, might also lead to new measures for preventing gray hair by modulating the DNA damage response.

But then ISS itself serves as a home to six microbe - filled humans who stay in orbit for as long as 6 months each and routinely shed skin cells when they exercise, comb their hair, eat, and do other activities that potentially can contaminate their isolated «built environment.»

Ligna Li and Robert Hoffman of AntiCancer, a biotechnology company in San Diego, have perfected a technique for delivering DNA into hair follicle cells.

Hendrik is preparing the publication of the most complete woolly mammoth genome yet, and Harvard geneticist George Church's team is already working to introduce specific DNA variants — genes for hair, tusks, subcutaneous fat and cold resistance — into cultured cells from Asian elephants (right).

During surgery, melanocyte skin cells responsible for giving color to the skin, hair and eyes are harvested from healthy, pigmented areas of the body and transferred to an area that lost its pigment.

But the cells responsible for hair growth live on, so hair regrows after therapy stops.

Scientists already knew that stem cells contained in a bulge area of hair follicles are involved in making hair and that SCF is important for pigmented cells, said Dr. Le, a member of the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.

One produces pigment for the hair before dying off, while the other becomes a new melanocyte stem cell.

Implantable prostheses designed to deliver electrical stimuli directly to the auditory nerve hold considerable promise for people with a type of deafness in which the sensory hair cells of the inner ear are damaged

Previous work from the Alagramam lab showed that clarin - 1 is essential for maintaining the structural integrity of the hair cells.

«Knowing about these Lgr5 cells is valuable for us because it gives us a target cell population to study as we try to figure out how to better manipulate them and turn them into hair cells in an adult,» Edge says.

An antibody for the protein CTBP2 reveals cell nuclei as well as synapses between hair cells and neurons (magenta).

Researchers knew that cells in the inner ear below hair cells — known as supporting cells — can become the sensory cells themselves when stimulated by a protein that blocks Notch signaling, which is an important mechanism for cell communication.