One aspect of their work studies
how cell signaling pathways, such as those that initiate cell growth or death, are affected by the nanostructures and microstructures of implant materials such as titanium.
Andrew Huberman, PhD: We know a lot about the biology of healthy ganglion cells, both in terms of what those connections look like and
how those cells signal information about the visual world to the brain, in effect, how they tell the brain what's out there in the visual world.
Not exact matches
And, perhaps most strikingly, a team at a gaggle of New York research institutions published a paper showing
how they'd used hPSCs to cook up — in just days, rather than several months — cortical neurons (critical central nervous system
cells) that had normal electrophysiological
signaling properties.
In fact, I'm knockin» on doors yesterday and a guy was telling me
how he's right in Wynantskill and he can't even get a
cell phone
signal at his house.
Researchers thought that molecular
signals told
cells where and
how to rebuild, but new evidence suggests there are other forces at play.
Joe W. Ramos, PhD, deputy director of the UH Cancer Center and collaborators focused on investigating
how these oncogenes and related
signals lead to dysregulation of normal processes within the
cell and activate highly mobile and invasive cancer
cell behavior.
When researchers sequenced the sponge's genome in 2010, they found genes that help individual
cells cooperate as a group:
how to divide, send
signals to one another, and distinguish between friends and outsiders.
For example, to tease out what various sound
signals might mean, the researchers had to figure out
how kelp tissues respond to sound (turns out that it's highly dependent on alginate content, a gummy
cell wall component of kelp).
«The pathway mainly involves
signalling via the brains» immune
cells, and thus differs from
how today's drugs operate.
Today is the 86th birthday of Sir Bernard Katz, a German - born English physiologist who elucidated
how nerve
cells transmit
signals.
It was already known that cold temperatures stimulate brown fat, but was unclear
how the body
signals that message to its
cells.
Professor Taylor, who co-ordinated the research, says: «Our findings provide the very first insight into
how biochar stimulates plant growth — we now know that
cell expansion is stimulated in roots and leaves alike and this appears to be the consequence of a complex
signalling network that is focussed around two plant growth hormones.
The group then ran dozens of microscopy tests with Dan Wagner, Rice associate professor of biochemistry and
cell biology, to see
how different formulations and amounts of biochar affected
cell signaling.
A team led by Carnegie's Wolf Frommer has revealed
how membrane proteins were networked with each other and with the
signaling proteins inside the
cell.
Kilian said these questions range from the basic —
how macrophages
signal to the breast
cells — to the more long - term: Can therapeutics be used to disrupt that communication?
By measuring the
signal returned from the transplant locations, she was able to determine
how many of the
cells survived.
Researchers still don't know
how this range corresponds to their versatile functions, but being more like a string than like a lump with keyholes means that a protein can make many contacts with other molecules to regulate the network of
signals that drives the
cell.
The researchers investigated
how Suv39h1 employs a positive feedback loop to chemically tag thousands of adjacent histones, thus
signaling the
cell to stow away these underlying, unnecessary DNA sequences.
Investigators are working to break the code in stem
cell communication by determining
how stem
cells signal one another and other
cells.
An interdisciplinary scientist is needed to demonstrate
how the mechanical properties of the culture system alter
signaling in the
cells.
But little is known about
how ionizing radiation affects the extracellular matrix (ECM), a patchwork of proteins and other biomolecules that surrounds
cells and plays a vital role in their shape, movement and
signaling functions.
Extend that logic to a
cell, though, and things can get ugly: Because IDPs regulate
how different components of the
cell communicate with one another, having extra copies floating around could leave them sending
signals that shouldn't get sent.
That mutation helps determine
how the various
cells in the worm respond to insulin and IGF
signaling.
Exactly
how they detect problems was unclear, but researchers now show that they respond to an SOS
signal from dying
cells that is relayed throughout the brain.
And it's essential to understand
how neurobiological processing conducted by molecules and
cells and electrical
signaling gets translated into behaviors, from simple bodily movements to complex social interactions.
Riffell and his colleagues hope these nerve
cell recording experiments will help them understand
how insects integrate and interpret different
signals from their environment and use this information to make decisions.
Manipulating
how cells respond to
signals is key to developing new medications.
A
signaling pathway is
how developing
cells get instruction on what types of
cell to become, such as a liver
cell, a skin
cell, a brain
cell, etc..
Biophysicists led by Professor Erwin Frey, who holds the Chair of Biological and Statistical Physics at LMU, have now shown theoretically
how this can be accomplished even when only a subset of
cells actually emits the requisite
signals.
The team's next step is to zoom in on the molecular mechanisms that control
how the Wnt
signaling pathway interacts with the nail stem
cells to influence bone and nail growth.
The study provides evidence for
how FGF23
signals to
cells by forming a complex with a-Klotho and the two other molecular partners.
The daf - 2 gene is also part of a
signaling pathway that influences
how well
cells age and cope with stress.
«Scientists determine structure of enzyme linked with key
cell -
signaling protein: Findings aid understanding of
how modifications to
cell -
signaling protein affect its action in turning genes on and off.»
Still unclear is
how the methuselah gene mutation makes flies more stress - resistant, but the amino acid sequence of the protein it makes may be part of a
signaling pathway that controls
how well
cells resist or repair these stresses.
It's similar to
how GPS uses the timing of satellite
signals to determine the position of your
cell phone — and it would mean spacecraft would no longer have to rely on radio telescope communications to find their coordinates.
In their work, the researchers also show
how TGF - beta can be used in stem
cell cultures to mass - produce nerve
cells which in turn produce the
signalling substance serotonin.
The U-M study explains
how increased cAMP in fat
cells promotes the secretion of the hormone interleukin - 6, which
signals the liver to stop producing glucose — thus improving overall blood sugar levels in obese diabetic mice.
I ache to see your action potential in action To be blinded by the searing speed of your electric
signal As it sparks from node to node To behold the violent beauty of vesicles fusing with your presynaptic membrane — Pouring their contents into your synaptic cleft
How I wish to be your postsynaptic
cell So that I may be flooded by your molecules
Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified
how a promising drug in clinical trials for the treatment of obesity and related metabolic disorders improves the metabolism of sugar by generating a new
signal between fat
cells and the liver.
To complete the picture, two such somatic protective
cells surround each maturing sperm
cell, and those encysting somatic
cells send
signals to the sperm
cell on
how and when to mature.
In prior, unrelated experiments, the same species of worm had become hypersensitive to smell when its nerve
cells experienced problems with dopamine
signaling, a cellular process that helps control
how readily
cells can communicate with one another.
But
how do
cells sense these scent
signals, which become weaker and weaker with increasing distance from the source?
Following on from this discovery, the next fundamental question to answer is,
how is this
signal being transmitted from the chloroplast to the nucleus to change gene expression within the
cell?
How do
cells «read» this weakening of the
signal — technically referred to as a
signal gradient — in order to steer their growth or movement towards the
signal's source?
A strategic focus is to continue to develop computational tools (such as KinomeXplorer, NetworKIN, and NetPhorest) and to deploy these on genome - scale quantitative data obtained by, for example, mass spectrometry, genomic, and phenotypic screens to understand the principles of
how spatio and temporal assembly of mammalian
signaling networks transmit and process information at a systems level in order to alter
cell behavior.
In addition, the analysis provided some hints about
how chemotaxis evolved from a simple
signaling network that responds slowly to environmental cues — primarily by turning on genes — to a multiprotein system that can quickly alter a
cell's course.
«The beauty of this study is that we now have a system in which we can investigate
how a
signaling cell uses these two genes Yorkie and Scalloped, which have never before been shown in blood, to direct specific
cells to be made,» said Dr. Martinez - Agosto, associate professor of human genetics.
«Intracellular
signaling depends on these protein modifications — so by doing these analysis, we know not only what's in the
cell, but also
how the
cell organizes and communicates internally.»
The scientists found that neurons lacking BAI1 show changes in long - term potentiation (LTP) and long - term depression (LTD):
how the
cells respond to patterns of incoming electrical
signals.
Cell receptors will receive a signal from outside, and when it binds, that information is transmitted through the receptor to other proteins within the cell, [creating] a chain of events to change how the gene works in the c
Cell receptors will receive a
signal from outside, and when it binds, that information is transmitted through the receptor to other proteins within the
cell, [creating] a chain of events to change how the gene works in the c
cell, [creating] a chain of events to change
how the gene works in the
cellcell.