Sentences with phrase «for neural tissue»

Charles Lieber at Harvard University says the work could represent a significant advance for neural tissue engineering and regenerative neural treatments.

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At that point, there is often still enough surviving spinal cord tissue to allow for a sort of neural workaround, a rerouting of signals to maintain the flow of sensory and motor signals below the wound.

Made of a polymer that has already been approved by the FDA for applications such as biodegradable sutures, InVivo's implant seems to undermine the biological ripple effect that leads to apoptosis, essentially by leading the body to believe that the damage is not that bad, which tones down the immune response and helps the healthier neural tissue survive and heal.

The thyroid interestingly is thought to help in transferring heat to the baby and affects the woman's metabolism and how she handles the pregnancy and the brain is where the tissue affects neural circuitry which is directly responsible for the Mom / baby bonding and bonding and attachment in the early days and beyond.

«It's useful in modeling concepts in neuroscience to have a system that will yield a diverse range of behaviors for small changes of a control parameter, as this may help offer some insights about how the same neural tissue displays different responses,» Alonso said, whose research was funded by a fellowship from the Leon Levy Foundation.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Methods for making bits of brainlike tissue tap the innate tendency of human pluripotent stem cells to form neural tissue.

In 1992, for instance, the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, an office of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, sent a letter to all manufacturers of dietary supplements asking them to «investigate the source of your neural and glandular tissues or tissue extracts of bovine or ovine species to determine if they are being produced in known BSE countries.»

U.S. Army - funded researchers at Brandeis University have discovered a process for engineering next - generation soft materials with embedded chemical networks that mimic the behavior of neural tissue.

The surfaces could also be used to test drugs in the lab, Wong says, or perhaps as biomimetic surfaces for implantable tissue scaffolds or neural implants.

But Redmond says that only 43 of these fetuses were even of the correct age (between 7 and 12 weeks) to provide tissue for neural transplants.

In the near future, the researchers hope to grow mini-brains from the stem cells to observe the long - term effects of Zika infection on neural tissue and to screen for potential therapeutics.

Two weeks later, the researchers found the brain - derived cells in the regenerating muscle tissue — suggesting that neural stem cell lines might be candidates for treating certain muscle diseases.

For instance, within the superior colliculus (SC)-- a midbrain area that initiates eye movements to peripheral stimuli directly based on input from the eyes -, much more neural tissue is dedicated to processing foveal signals than to processing peripheral signals.

The authors note that the formation of each different organ bud type may require some fine tuning to optimize tissue self - organization, and further addition of neural cell types may be necessary, but this research may soon provide exciting model systems for the study of basic biology and pathology as well as providing appropriate replacement tissues for the treatment of many patients with no other viable options.

The self - renewable capacity of these cells, their ability to differentiate into several tissue progenitors (neural, mesenchymal stem cells...), and the possibility to work with mutated cell lines define human stem cells as a good basis for screening compounds libraries in order to discover new potential drugs for monogenic diseases.

This enabled researchers to generate serial images that went deeper into the tissue as each top slice was removed — to follow fine neural processes for hundreds of micrometers.

Holding static stretches for at least 60 seconds will target contractile muscle tissue and allow more of a pliable neural response to tissues due to increased circulation, thereby stimulating a recovery response by the parasympathetic nervous system.

For long term increases in flexibility and mobility, where you are actually creating structural rather than just neural changes, I prefer longer soft tissue and stretching techniques.

And concerning the tissue which is involved with the neural drive, this would theoretically occur in a direct response for the requirement of contracting the cells via the hypertrophied contractile mechanisms.

... on my head is a Vielight photobiomodulation device for enhancing alpha brain wave production and increasing mitochondrial activity in neural tissue...

The benefits of multi-joint exercises (in terms of muscle tissue activation, hormonal response, neural coordination among muscles, and metabolic demands) far outweigh those of single - joint exercises, and for the best results, most workouts should revolve around these multi-joint exercises.

It can also speed up the healing process for wounds and damaged tissues, regulate the proper functioning of the nervous system, and reduce the effects and presence of Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative neural diseases.