Sentences with phrase «including nerve cells»

B12 is needed to maintain the fatty myelin sheath that wraps around and protects nerves, including nerve cells in the brain.

An anemia is a deficiency of the blood cells, but in addition to blood cells, many other cells in the body need vitamin B12, including nerve cells.

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

Gray matter includes nerve cell bodies, which are like the control center for these cells.

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The study, published Feb. 5 in Nature Neuroscience, showed that the patients» nerve cells — converted directly from patients» skin cells — exhibited «symptoms» of the disorder, including DNA damage, dysfunctional mitochondria and cell death.

On its own, boosting glutamate on a large scale has serious side effects, including seizures and nerve cell death.

They included PTPRG, which encodes a protein that enables nerve cells to connect as they form nerve networks.

The mini-brain lasts about a month and it could be used to study a range of challenges in neuroscience including transplanting nerve cells that could help treat Parkinson's disease and studies on how adult nerve stem cells develop.

Others include transplanting so - called Schwann cells from peripheral nerves, using growth factors to stimulate nerve growth, and boosting the immune system in the damaged area (New Scientist magazine, 14 August 1999, p 36).

But according to Michael McKeown, a developmental geneticist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, fru's presence in nine small clusters of fly nerve cells — including several previously mapped by Hall as «courtship centers» — may begin to give researchers «a handle on how the neural circuits that generate complex behaviors are put together.»

The many functions of astrocytes include protecting the brain from injury and harmful agents and providing essential support for nerve cells.

«We found that these include multiple locations for nerve cells in the brainstem that innervate the heart with insulated fibres that conduct rapid impulses, causing an instantaneous cardiac response to each air - breath.»

In addition, when the structure of the flies» ears was examined in detail, the researchers discovered that nerve cells of the noise - rattled flies showed signs that they had been exposed to stress, including altered shapes of the mitochondria, which are responsible for generating most of a cell's energy supply.

«A number of tests demonstrated that these artificially created cells had all of the properties of the affected nerves, including the calcium imbalance and reduced energy production observed in patients.

Photoreactive compounds developed by scientists of Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich directly modulate nerve - cell function, and open new routes to the treatment of neurological diseases, including chronic pain and certain types of visual impairment.

Previous research has described at least some of the fundamental processes involved in healthy, on - going peripheral nerve growth regeneration, including the critical role of mitochondria — cellular organelles that produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy - carrying molecule found in all cells that is vital to driving nerve recovery after injury.

The young mice showed signs of brain deterioration as well, including inflammation and decreased birthrates of new nerve cells.

Moreover, the inability to remove defective mitochondria from nerve cells has been linked to numerous neurodegenerative diseases, including the more common forms of Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

«So, impairment of the wiring of nerve cells in the cerebellum may contribute to movement disorders as well as cognitive problems including autism spectrum disorders.»

Injected into rodents, the cells don't form tumors; rather, they migrate through the animals» brains, where they differentiate into various types of neural cells including the cells that create the myelin that protects nerve fibers.

Nerve cells within this cortical layer send outputs to many other brain regions, including its counterpart in the brain's opposite hemisphere.

In the current study, the researchers used high - affinity antibodies to «label» the cannabinoid receptors so they could be seen using various microscopy techniques, including electron microscopy, which allowed very detailed visualization at individual synapses, or gaps between nerve cells.

The peripheral nervous system of vertebrate animals includes three kinds of nerve cells: sensory neurons, which transmit impulses from sensory receptor structures to the brain; motor neurons, which innervate the striated, or skeletal, muscles, and autonomic neurons, which regulate the functional activity of the circulatory system, the organs, the glands and the smooth muscles (such as those of the intestine).

Although rare, her cancer showed similarities to other more common forms of cancer, including sarcoma, cancer of the bone, and neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nerve cells that are more common in children.

Serotonin receptors sit in cell membranes throughout the body, including the brain, stomach, and nerves.

In fact, so much of the progress that we're making in laboratories, including mine, is on developing neuroprotective therapies that can protect the retina from degeneration, regenerate optic nerve fibers all the way back to their targets in the brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nerve.

The third promising biomarker involves imaging of the inner retina, including vascular, nerve fiber and ganglion cell components.

Clinical, histopathological, and molecular variables included patient age, gender, extraocular extension, tumor location (ciliary body or not), optic nerve invasion, angiotropism, neurotropism, melanoma cell type, BAP1 mutation, and monosomy 3.

The reprogrammed cells formed all seven classes of retinal cells normally found in the eyes, including the retinal ganglion cells, which have axons (optic nerves) that extend to the brain.

The TNT technology can heal damaged tissue and rejuvenate aging cells including body organs, nerve cells, and blood vessels, reports Science Daily.

They include Fridolin Sulser, who helped develop tricyclic antidepressants, Elaine Sanders - Bush, whose lab made several important discoveries about the neurotransmitter serotonin and its receptors, and Randy Blakely, nationally known for his work on transporters, which sweep up neurotransmitter from the synaptic gap between nerve cells.

This attack damages nerve cells, leading to a host of symptoms including numbness, fatigue, difficulty walking, paralysis and loss of vision.

ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is diagnosed in about 5,600 Americans annually and is associated with progressive deterioration of nerve cells in the brain and spine that govern movement, including breathing.

This attack damages the nerve cells, leading to a host of symptoms that include numbness, fatigue, difficulty walking, paralysis and loss of vision.

Corticobasal degeneration is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by nerve cell loss and atrophy (shrinkage) of various regions of the brain, including the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia (which helps to start and control movements, as well as other functions).

Some eye diseases, including glaucoma, damage the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) that make up the optic nerve.

The observations that astrocytes and even non-neural cells (J Cell Sci 2004, J Lipid Res 2007) store and can release neurotransmitter amino acids in a way resembling synaptic release, and that oligodendrocytes have NMDA type glutamate receptors (Nature 2005), together with findings that glutamate and other neuroactive substances can be co-released from nerve endings (Eur J Neurosci 2003, Molec Neurosci 2004, Cereb Cortex 2009a), including at the neuromuscular junction (Neuroscience 2007b), suggest novel ways of intercellular communication and potential drug targets.

They have also been used to support nerve cells and tissues including bone and liver.

Flavonoids act to protect cells all over your body, including neurons, the nerve cells that transmit thoughts, feelings, memories and more.

Numbness in different parts of the body including the legs is one of the most common symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a condition in which the immune system attacks the sheath around nerve cells.

Cholesterol serves as the starting material for many important body compounds including bile acids, sex hormones, adrenal hormones, and vitamin D. Cholesterol is also need to form cell membranes and the myelin sheath around nerve fiber.

Vata is responsible for all movement - related functions of the body, including the breath and heartbeat, the flow of blood in our blood vessels and food in the gut, the countless nerve signals that keep all of our cells and organs functioning, and the communication between cells and organs.

But other ways of treating the disease, including targeting the other protein called tau that damages nerve cells, may prove important as well.

The thyroid plays an essential role in the human body which includes cell reproduction, general nerves functioning, metabolism, growth and how cellular oxygen use.

When synthesized HGH is used it produces many different growth factor proteins that include nerve growth factor and it uniquely interacts with fat cells.

It effects every tissue in your body including the uterus, cervix, and vagina, the endocrine (hormonal) system, brain cells, fat metabolism, thyroid hormone function, water balance, peripheral nerve myelin sheath synthesis, bone cells, energy production and thermogenesis, the immune system, survival and development of the embryo, and growth and development of the fetus.

Alpha lipoic acid is a potent antioxidant with many positive effects, including preventing stroke damage and protecting the nerve cells of diabetics — but its protective properties are especially active in the brain.

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Salt is also an absolutely essential part of both human and animal life due to the sodium that is contains, which is used to maintain some of the body's most integral functions including regulating fluid in blood cells and helping to send information to nerves and muscles.

Depression is linked to a broad array of pathological processes, including inflammation of the peripheral nervous system structures, such as lymph nodes, as well as abnormalities in synaptic plasticity, which is the communication between nerve cells.