Sentences with phrase «how nerve cells»

Sleep is important to a number of brain functions, including how nerve cells (neurons) communicate with each other.

Sodium and potassium gradients are key to how nerve cells transmit electrical signals.

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Dr Bateman's lab recently identified a new gene, called Unkempt, which works together with the TSC1 / 2 genes to control how nerve cells develop in the brain.

He also studies how nerve cells can form new connections to neighboring nerve cells after injury.

British - born Thomas Jessell, Professor of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Columbia University in New York, U.S., has worked for more than two decades to understand how nerve cells in the developing spinal cord assemble into the circuits that control sensory perception and movement.

The question of how nerve cells communicate with one another has been a central problem in modern neuroscience since the pioneering studies of Cajal, Dale, and Sherrington.

Understanding how nerve cells communicate with one another has been a central problem in modern brain science.

We are now able to see the changes related to such adaptations and to see how nerve cells form new connections or how connections between nerve cells are broken.

In recent years, scientists have started to learn how nerve cells carry itchy signals from there to the spinal cord and on up to the brain.

Scientists used mice to study how nerve cells in thalamic reticular nucleus work during sleep and how they help the brain concentrate.

Yvette Fisher is investigating how nerve cells in the brain perform the myriad computations that underlie perception and behavior.

They use the results of these studies to instruct large - scale computers to mimic how these nerve cells work.

By studying healthy nerve cells and cells from people with neurodegenerative diseases, Evans plans to find out how nerve cells perform this important quality control, and how the process might be corrected when something goes wrong.

British - born Thomas Jessell, Professor of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Columbia University in New York, US, has worked for more than two decades to understand how nerve cells in the developing spinal cord assemble into the circuits that control sensory perception and movement.

It resembles how nerve cells speak to each other in our brains,» said Antonio Barragan.

Led by first author Teniel Ramikie, a graduate student in Patel's lab, the researchers also showed for the first time how nerve cells in this part of the brain make and release their own natural «endocannabinoids.»

British biophysicist Alan Lloyd Hodgkin won the shiny gold medal in 1963 for discovering how the nerve cells of squid generate an electrical pulse when stimulated

One of Freeman's big projects is working with collaborators to study how nerve cells in the brains of mice respond to touch.

«How nerve cells are damaged by accumulation of abnormal proteins.»

According to the researchers, how nerve cells are damaged in these diseases has remained a mystery until now.

But in hopes of drafting better wiring diagrams of the brain, European and U.S. governments in 2013 made big commitments toward studying how nerve cells link up and synchronize.

«It is a moot question as to how nerve cells synchronize their behavior and how they bring about such rhythms,» says Beed.

Our studies help us to understand how the nerve cells in the entorhinal cortex operate and how electrical activities might get interrupted in this area of the brain.»

«This is why we are investigating in animal models how the nerve cells within the entorhinal cortex are connected with each other.»

How nerve cells within the brain communicate with each other over long distances has puzzled scientists for decades.

For now, neurobiologists hope to use the device, described this week at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, for a humbler purpose: understanding how nerve cells grow and communicate with each other.

Here's a gene that's central to how nerve cells communicate with each other, so it's curious to us to see a grossly different protein variant.

Today is the 86th birthday of Sir Bernard Katz, a German - born English physiologist who elucidated how nerve cells transmit signals.

Over the past 15 years, the GFP gene has enabled scientists to watch a plethora of previously murky biological processes in action: how nerve cells develop in the brain, how insulin - producing beta cells form in the pancreas of an embryo, how proteins are transported within cells, and how cancer cells metastasize through the body.

Neuroscience focused on the nuts and bolts of the brain: how nerve cells communicate with electrical and chemical pulses, how brains learn and calculate and remember.

Faced with the complexity of the brain, neuroscience focused on questions that could be subdivided into manageable units: How we see, how we move, how nerve cells work.

The mystery Lindborg had to solve was how nerve cell debris is cleared in these mutant animals,» Zigmond said.

We are now able to look into the brain of an animal and see how nerve cell connections are made or broken, and how that relates to learning or other adaptive changes.

Not exact matches

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

The researchers set up a system to grow asymmetric nerve cells in an observation chamber and use live cell imaging to track how rabies virus particles are transported along the axons.

«From bite site to brain: How rabies virus hijacks and speeds up transport in nerve cells.»

«The discovery of this special class of cells that sit right at the nerve endings where HSV - 2 is released into skin is changing how we think about HSV - 2 and possible vaccines,» said Corey.

The cells also underwent tiny zaps of electricity, which allowed researchers to see how the neurons might have communicated with other nerve cells in the brain.

Immune cells are normally associated with fighting infection but in a new study, scientists have discovered how they also help the nervous system clear debris, clearing the way for nerve regeneration after injury.

We look forward to exploring exactly how these neutrophils work in concert with other cells to accomplish nerve regeneration.»

The sea sponge may seem like an odd choice for genomic research considering that its simple body lacks muscles, organs, and nerve cells, but the creature provides a wealth of information on how multicellular organism arose.

Scores of laboratories at universities and in private industry are uncovering how to use these cells, which transform into neurons, astrocytes (the cells that regulate transmission of electrical impulses in the brain) and oligodendrocytes (which insulate nerve fibers with a fatty coating).

This showed leukocytes crossing between the blood - nerve barrier endothelial cells without gaps in the barrier or change in how the barrier is structured.

But there are also certain things that if an investigator like [s] to do, and I came from cellular neurobiology having learnt from Grundfest and from Wade Marshall and from my period at the NIH how to study nerve cells in the brain; and I was until that point studying complex organisms — a cat; Aplysia fitted me to a tee.

But since white fat cells have very few nerves, how do beige fat cells get the message that it's cold outside?

«What we still didn't know was how the cells physically managed to cross the blood - nerve barrier.

Gaiti Hasan's team from NCBS has now uncovered how this happens — the researchers have discovered an integrative circuit of nerve cells in fruit fly brains that allows them to ignore the lack of proteins in their food to enter the pupal stage.

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

«In that case, we will also have to ask how such changes affected the functions and connectivity of the nerve cells involved.»