Sentences with phrase «hair cells on»

McDermott's team discovered hair cells on the zebrafish skin use different mechanotransduction genes — like tmc2b — depending on their orientation.

Not exact matches

(who knows the significance of our personal shedded skin cells, hair, sneeze droplets or other excretions on the overall workings of the cosmos - not saying that I take any particular pride or glory in any of those possible effects?)

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.

Oats help to lock in moisture around the hair shaft, and are also said to soothe itching caused by dead skin cells on the scalp.

«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.

What they didn't know was whether the rubber bands circled the bacteria like the hoops on a wine barrel, ran in stripes down the length of the cell or stuck out like hairs.

A team led by Charles Zuker of the University of California, San Diego, focused instead on fruit flies, acting on a hunch that the flies» touch - sensitive bristles might contain channels similar to those in sound - sensitive hair cells.

To deliver the healthy gene, the team inserted it into an engineered virus called adeno - associated virus 1, or AAV1, together with a promoter — a genetic sequence that turns the gene on only in certain sensory cells of the inner ear known as hair cells.

The scientists then moved on to study mice which had been genetically altered so that their hair cells lacked two of the RFX transcription factors.

The full readout of what genes are on and off in dermal papilla cells has never been collected before, so researchers now have a new list of thousands of genes to study further that may play key roles in hair follicle development.

In cells grown on flat culture dishes, the expression of thousands of genes didn't match up with their normal patterns, explaining why the cells from those dishes had been unable to generate new hair follicles.

Sound waves, amplified by the outer hair cells (shown above right), vibrate the inner hair cells, opening ion channels on their surface that let neurotransmitters flow in.

Based on previous studies, researchers have hypothesized that recreational noise exposure might damage the circuitry between sensory hair cells in the inner ear and their auditory nerve targets that deliver information to the brain.

The patch of hair on this bald mouse's back is the result of a single transplanted stem cell.

These microscopic, eight - legged mites live in the follicles of our eyelashes, eyebrows, and nose hairs, where they feed on dead skin cells and oil.

The plane's frame needed to be strong enough to carry a human pilot, several days» worth of resources and four heavy batteries, but light enough to fly on the solar energy absorbed by the 17,000 solar cells — each as thin as a human hair — mounted on its wing, fuselage and horizontal stabilizer.

Until the present study, demographic inference was based on only three Aboriginal Australian genomes; one was derived from a tuft of hair (taken from a deceased individual), and the other two from cell lines whose provenance is somewhat hazy.

Oysters don't have ears like humans, but hair cells similar to ones in the inner ear are found on the gills.

But hair growth depends on the ability of cells in the hair follicles to keep dividing and so producing cells which die and are built into the hair shaft.

The researchers incubate cells with tiny snippets of single - stranded DNA engineered to slip into the cells» outer membranes, covering each cell like the hairs on a tennis ball.

We already knew that E. coli can grip to human cells using hair - like appendages that have tiny protein hooks on their tips, but until now no one had worked out the structure of this protein, called FimH, or how it interacts with human cells.

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

Loud sounds put too much pressure on the cochlear hair cells, which can damage or kill them.

In contrast, perovskite solar cells depend on a layer of tiny crystals — each about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — made of low - cost, light - sensitive materials.

The researchers found that a protein called KROX20, more commonly associated with nerve development, in this case turns on in skin cells that become the hair shaft.

Malinski's team has developed unique methods and systems of measurements using nanosensors, which are about 1,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, to track the impacts of Vitamin D3 on single endothelial cells, a vital regulatory component of the cardiovascular system.

A hair of a diode feeds electrical pulses into one side of a single cell; an electrode on the other side records that cell's response.

These might be based on crystals of magnetite, which align with the Earth's magnetic field and could pull on some kind of stretch receptor or hair - like cell as it changes polarity.

In samples from the same individuals, stem cells that had matured into so - called «progenitor cells» were 10 to 100 times as abundant on hairy patches as on bald ones, suggesting they are the key to hair growth.

«The act of hearing is based on hair cells in the ear that are like piano keys sensitive to vibrations at different pitches,» Epstein said.

The sponge's cells, its calcium carbonate or glasslike silica spicules, and the mass of collagen that forms its visible body all create a network of tunnels and chambers, with little flailing hairs called cilia on the walls that wave the water through and filter out plankton and waste.

When they examined the organ of Corti under the microscope, they saw that small numbers of hair cells had regenerated on their own.

If the cells merely stopped working, preventing gray hair would be relatively straightforward, he says: «We could turn them back on.»

Jian Zuo, Ph.d., and his colleagues induced supporting cells located in the inner ear of adult mice to take on the appearance of immature hair cells and to begin producing some of the signature proteins of hair cells.

By manipulating the same genes, Zuo and his colleagues induced supporting cells located in the inner ear of adult mice to take on the appearance of immature hair cells and to begin producing some of the signature proteins of hair cells.

Treatment has focused on electronic devices like hearing aids or cochlear implants because once lost, human auditory hair cells do not grow back.

TTD - specific cutaneous and anaemic features, on the other hand, are thought to result from a specific kind of transcriptional insufficiency caused by depletion of unstable TFIIH during the terminal differentiation of skin, hair - shaft, and blood cells [16,24].

For a rich source of stem cells to be engineered into new blood vessels or skin tissue, clinicians may one day look no further than the hair on their patients» heads, according to new research published earlier this month by University at Buffalo engineers.

In recent years, researchers have developed so - called «senolytic» drugs that wipe out senescent cells in aging mice and mouse models of age - related disease, exploiting the high dependence of these cells on specific biochemical survival pathways.9, 10 In these studies, senolytic drugs have restored exercise capacity9 and formation of new blood and immune precursor cells11 in aging mice to near youthful norms, and prevented or treated mouse models of diseases of aging like osteoarthritis, 12 fibrotic lung disease, 13 hair loss, 14 atherosclerosis, 15,16 and age - related diseases of the heart itself.9 UNITY Biotechnology is leading a growing charge toward the clinic, with human clinical trials expected to begin in 2019.

Minoxidil, which also promotes hair growth when used on the scalp, can relax the smooth muscle cells in blood vessels by opening certain potassium channels.

After experimenting on cell culture, the scientists found that three genes are responsible for uncombable hair: PADI3, TGM3 and TCHH.

Within the meristem, the hair and non ‐ hair cells could be easily identified based on their morphology.

Setae, hair - like structures produced by cells on the wing blade, were used to infer changes to cell size and number.

Morphologically, the DZ in the wild type (WT) is marked by the appearance of epidermal root hairs on the external surface of outer cell files (trichoblast) and the existence of fully differentiated xylem for internal cell files (Dolan et al, 1993; Ishikawa & Evans, 1995; Beemster et al, 2003; Verbelen et al, 2006; Zhang et al, 2010; Mähönen et al, 2014).

In another talk Maria Kasper, from Karolinska Institutet, presented her research on hair follicles and skin, where single cell transcriptomics has been an important method.

By turning on a single gene, researchers can prevent skin stem cells from maturing into the three types of adult skin cells — epidermal, sebaceous and hair cells.

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Tiny hair - like structures on cells lining your airways, called cilia, push the mucus back up to your throat.

To help nourish the hair follicle and stimulate hair cell renewal, chow down on brown rice and oily fish such as salmon or tuna.