Sentences with phrase «in cell bodies»

It is possible that the 5 - HT3 receptor that we demonstrate in the ganglion cell somata is not transported to the distal processes that innervate taste buds but other receptors present in cell bodies of taste ganglia are, including P2X receptors (Bo et al., 1999) and GLP - 1 receptors (Shin et al., 2008).

Local protein synthesis in dendrites, not in the cell body of nerves, provides the ability to respond rapidly and selectively to external stimuli.

In neurons, new mitochondria are made in the cell body, migrate out to the tippy end by being moved along by ATP powered motors along the outside of the axon.

Motor neurons that control foot muscles are about three feet long, so neurotransmitters must be moved a yard from their origin in the cell body to the location where they can signal the muscles, Zhang says.

But the warehouse operations inside neurons have an additional challenge: the packaging stations (the Golgi) are in the cell body while many cargoes need to be delivered to the synapse, which in some neurons can be a meter away.

(D) In unc - 9 daf - 6 unc - 7 animals, Pacr - 5:: unc - 9:: gfp is expressed more diffusely in cell bodies (few bright puncta).

By cloning rat melanopsin and generating specific antibodies, we show that melanopsin is present in cell bodies, dendrites, and proximal axonal segments of a subset of rat RGCs.

The Princeton team also found that when viral tegument proteins are present in the cell body, escape from silencing does not require previously identified stress signals.