Sentences with phrase «gyrus produces»

In adult humans, the dentate gyrus produces roughly 700 new brain cells each day.

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In the 1960s, researchers showed that adult rats continually produce neurons in a brain region called the dentate gyrus, part of the hippocampus — an area that plays an important role in acquiring new memories.

But she had to improve the sensitivity of the technique so that it could detect the isotopic ratio in DNA from the roughly 6 - gram sliver of neural tissue in the hippocampus thought to produce new neurons, the dentate gyrus.

Exercise did not increase progranulin protein levels in frontal cortex (B), thalamus (C), or hippocampus (D), despite producing the expected increase in the number of doublecortin - positive neurons in the dentate gyrus (E, ** p < 0.01).