Sentences with phrase «hypothalamus stem»

Research on lab animals has shown that the number of hypothalamus stem cells diminishes with age.

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Adult neural stem cells in the hypothalamus — a brain region that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities — appear to orchestrate the body's aging process, they found.

Although stem cells in the hypothalamus create new neurons throughout life, the team noticed that mice start losing them in middle age — about 10 or 11 months old.

Now that the location and identity of the wake - promoting neurons are precisely defined, the supramammillary region joins other parts of the brain known as being involved in keeping people awake, such as the nearby lateral hypothalamus, the upper brain stem and basal forebrain.

Scientists now have concrete evidence that two groups of cells — the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus in the hypothalamus and the parafacial zone in the brain stem — are involved in prompting SWS.

ImmunoStar's GLP2R Antibody ensures highly specific staining of neurons in the hypothalamus, brain stem, pancreatic α - cells, enteroendocrine cells in the intestine, as well as enteric neurons, and vagal sensory neurons.

GLP - 2 is an emerging neurotransmitter involved in feeding control in the hypothalamus and brain stem.

It kills neurons in the hypothalamus part of the brain stem that most likely never recover and are lost forever.

PCOS is a metabolic disorder which stems from an improperly functioning hypothalamus.

From there, Hypocretin Neurons project to all regions of the brain, including the hypothalamus, cerebral cortex, brain stem, and spinal cord.

The brain is made up of five main parts: the brain stem, pituitary gland, hypothalamus, cerebellum, and the cerebrum.

Cool Brain Factoids The brain is made up of five main parts: the brain stem, pituitary gland, hypothalamus, cerebellum, and the cerebrum...