Sentences with phrase «human nerve»

A major challenge has been to find a way to better understand the way the disease affects human nerve cells.

I'm especially interested in forms that suggest patterns such as silhouettes of trees that may be seen as human nerves or veins.

Human nerve cells involved in the process are spread throughout the brain.

In rats and tissue cultures of human nerve cells, these «beta sheet breakers» not only prevent amyloid plaques from forming, but also dissolve existing plaques.

There she co-authored a research paper on carbon nanotube scaffoldings and its application in human nerve growth.

CUTTING CONNECTIONS C4 protein (green) is found on human nerve cells growing in a dish (cell bodies shown in blue).

The researchers, led by University of California, San Diego neuroscientist Mark Tuszynski, took skin cells from the patients, grew them up in a culture dish and genetically engineered them to make human nerve growth factor (NGF).

To identify promising compounds, the team grew human nerve cells in the lab and tested whether more than 1100 medications, vitamins, dietary supplements, and other molecules altered their output of α - synuclein.

If that's difficult to envision, get this: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers contain about as much capsaicin — the chemical compound in peppers that makes them burn by activating heat receptors in human nerve endings — as a shot glass full of law enforcement - grade pepper spray.

BRAIN CANDY A new database offers a deep look at living human nerve cells, revealing elaborate branching structures and myriad shapes, such as in this neuron called a pyramidal cell (cell image, left and 3 - D computer reconstruction, right).

The next step will be to see if introducing p45 helps regenerate damaged human nerves.

In one well - studied example, the bacteria called Campylobacter jejuni, a common cause of food poisoning, carries a lipid molecule on its outer coat that resembles so - called gangliosides, molecules that help human nerve cells recognize and communicate with each other.

Last year, Wernig's team successfully created human nerve cells out of skin cells.

«These cells resemble human nerve cells that innervate joints,» said team leader Professor Boaz Cook, who is an assistant professor at TSRI, «and they encode joint - angle information in the same way.»

At turns awkward, sweet, tender, and cringe - worthy, the video strikes a very human nerve with the range of emotions it takes viewers through.

I we leave aside human nerve sensation, we are basically talking about different methods of cooking meat — radiative, conductive and convective.

By studying lab dishes of human nerve cells, or neurons, derived from Parkinson's patients, researchers found that a harmful...

All are behaviors that get on human nerves.

Deth reported last year, for example, that in human nerve cells thimerosal blocks a chemical reaction called methylation that is critical to gene activity and that is also disabled by exposure to lead.

Kai Wucherpfennig and Jack Strominger of Harvard University have found that several viruses and a bacterium produce protein fragments resembling those on the surface of human nerve cells.

Ubogu says the findings are very exciting, as they provide knowledge of leukocyte trafficking in human nerves, but more work needs to be done in affected patients to develop an effective drug.

«By using this powerful approach, we can begin to answer many questions about the physiology and molecular machinery of human nerve cells — not just around healthy aging but pathological aging as well,» says Martin Hetzer, a Salk professor also involved in the work.

The human nerve connections that we saw — using new microscopy methods crucial for this study — were very different from what was previously thought.»

They took their inspiration from nature, looking at the human nerve system and fungal root networks, and thus came up with two basic layouts.

It took time for signals to travel down human nerves, too.

in vitro culture of human nerve cells (yellow; nuclei: purple) exposed to various concentrations of different flame retardants: PBDE 99 is already in use and suspected to be harmful to health; the substance was thus used as a positive control.

They have human foibles, human nerves, entirely human characteristics.