Sentences with phrase «hair cells when»

The work contradicts previous studies that found that multiple types of unidentified supporting cells transform into hair cells when Notch signaling is blocked.

While previous vectors have only been able to penetrate the cochlea's inner hair cells, the first Nature Biotechnology study showed that a new synthetic vector, Anc80, safely transferred genes to the hard - to - reach outer hair cells when introduced into the cochlea (see images).

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His research shows that in cases of hearing loss, the ear's nerve fibers become damaged before the hair cells do, and when those synaptic fibers reconnect to the hair cells, it's possible to regain hearing.

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.

When the human body breaks down a foreign substance, one can typically find chemical by - products in hair or urine that provide clues about how it has interacted with cells.

Melanoma occurs when melanocytes — cells that make pigment in skin and hair — undergo a malignant transformation.

When mature, these cells grow hairs that bend in response to sound, generating electrical signals.

Prestin changes shape when exposed to high - frequency sound, and this in turn deforms the fine hair cells, setting off an electrical impulse to the brain.

«When sensory hair cells in the ear die, they are not repopulated.

A possible fix arose in 2003, when researchers discovered that certain genes can transform the cells supporting the hair cells into both types of hair cell.

When the head accelerates or decelerates, they bend the sensory hair cells and send a signal to the brain telling it which way is up.

When you move your head, the gel is pushed against the hair cells, which relay the information to the brain.

These hairs contain specialised neurons, nerve cells that express pheromone receptors that are activated when they bind to individual pheromone components.

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.»

When the researchers counted dead hair cells, the numbers suggested that the nine animals untreated with supplements experienced a 50 - dB loss in hearing.

When they deleted the SCF gene in the hair progenitor cells in mouse models, the animal's hair turned white.

But when cells undergo stress — anything from heat to starvation or infection — proteins and ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules can clump into stress granules, which are free of enclosing membranes and often form small globs akin to hair gel suspended in a tub of water.

When they deleted the KROX20 - producing cells, no hair grew and the mice became bald, according to the study.

Follicles, or small clusters of cells, come out of the scalp when hair is plucked.

When a critter bumps into one of the flytrap's sensitive hairs, the pressure sends an electrical signal racing from cell to cell, priming its jaws to close.

Merkel cells are highly sensitive to fine touch, and when airflow jostles a hair, the cells react to its motion.

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

These hairs contain specialized neurons, nerve cells that express pheromone receptors which are activated when they bind to individual pheromone components.

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.

When the hair cells are damaged, those associated spiral ganglion neurons often begin to degenerate from lack of use.

We detect sound using sensory cells sporting microscopic hairlike projections, and when these so - called hair cells deep inside the inner ear are destroyed by illness or loud noise, they are gone forever.

In humans, deafness is most often caused by damage to inner ear hair cells — so named because they sport hairlike cilia that bend when they encounter vibrations from sound waves — or by damage to the neurons that transmit that information to the brain.

The epithelial stem cells, when implanted into immunocompromised mice, regenerated the different cell types of human skin and hair follicles, and even produced structurally recognizable hair shaft, raising the possibility that they may eventually enable hair regeneration in people.

In fact, investigators found that POU4F3 alone was sufficient to regenerate hair cells, but that more hair cells were regenerated when both ATOH1 and POU4F3 were involved.

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.

When the head rotates, inertial drag of endolymph within the duct acts upon sensory hair cells that modulate the firing rates of primary vestibular afferent neurons.

When a hair follicle is not producing a fiber the DP cells lose much of their cytoplasm and become inactive.

If you're struggling to nix blackheads — those pesky clogged pores that occur when oils and skin cells block hair follicles on the face — you may want to take a page out of Redditor yoofka's skincare routine.

When you think about the building blocks of the cells that make up your skin, hair, nails and body tissues, it all comes down to what you eat.

Now imagine all the other areas that also rely upon new cells — muscles, bones, internal organs, hair, and nails are just a few that benefit when treatment for GH deficiency begins.

Acne is chronic skin condition that occurs when hair follicles become clogged with skin oil or dead skin cells.

When your sebaceous glands secrete excess sebum, that sebum can trap dirt and dead skin cells in the hair follicles.

The Overnight period is great time where we can offer pampering to our hair since the cell renewal process takes place when we sleep.

Acne vulgaris takes place when oils from glands with dead skin cells block hair follicles leading to quick growth of bacteria causing skin infection especially in puberty.

«Like it does to our skin, when we exercise, blood floods our cells and hair follicles and delivers essential nutrients and oxygen necessary for healthy hair and hair growth,» Dr. Mariwalla says.

Regular brushing not only helps to get rid of dead hair and skin cells, it keeps your house cleaner and also makes your groomers job easier because they won't be spending as much time detangling your dogs coat when they go in for a visit.

Our bodies also emanate information via electrical activity from brains and hearts, DNA from flaking skin cells and shedding hair, and data on health status from germs emitted when we cough, sneeze or spit.

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