Sentences with phrase «for synapse formation»

«Fundamentally, it provides a novel mechanism for synapse formation,» Mei said.

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The vision driving the project is that valuable ideas for the treatment of stroke patients could result from accurate predictions of synapse formation.

Astrocytes, named for their star - like shape, are ubiquitous brain cells known for regulating excitatory synapse formation through cells.

In the hippocampus, a major component responsible for memory, neural activity, synapse formation and expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were reduced in these mice (Image 2).

«Given that abnormal synapse formation causes various neurodevelopmental diseases such as autism spectrum disorders and epilepsy, understanding activity - dependent mechanisms of initial synapse formation will be important for developing new therapeutic strategies for these conditions,» explained Dr. Kwon.

Astrocytes are responsible, for example, for the energy production of the brain, ion and pH balance, and they regulate synapse formation, the connections between neurons.

Differential roles for Wiskott - Aldrich syndrome protein in immune synapse formation and IL - 2 production.

For example, our discovery of HORMAD1 (Fig 2) and HORMAD2, two proteins that preferentially associate with unpaired / unsynapsed meiotic chromosome cores / axes, allowed us to address how progression in meiosis is coordinated with crossover formation, and how meiotic checkpoints / quality control ensure that only those meiocytes progress in meiosis that correctly paired and synapsed their homologous chromosomes.

The following position is available at the Department Experimental Immunology of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig: PhD candidate: Control of immunological synapse formation in regulatory T cells.

The processes for early brain development — neuronal migration, synapse formation, and pruning — are responsive to and directed by environment as well as genetics.