Sentences with phrase «into brain cells where»

From there, the ASOs get taken up into brain cells where they continue to suppress their target protein for a month or so, after which time more needs to be injected.

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Crayfish have a «nursery» in their heads where blood cells transform into neurons — the process may one day help us to regenerate our own brain cells

The virus does this because, unlike most microbes, Zika can pass from blood into the brain, where it infects and kills stem cells, having severe effects on developing brains.

But scientists were stumped on how to best integrate the cell grafts into the brain's complex circuitry, where they would be more targeted and do the most good.

In this study, Cherqui's team transplanted wildtype HSPCs into an FA mouse model, reporting that the HSPCs engrafted and soon differentiated into macrophages in key regions of the mice's brain and spinal cord where they appeared to transfer wildtype FXN into deficient neurons and muscle cells.

Incoming sound waves make the eardrum vibrate, and the eardrum delivers these vibrations using the ossicles to the inner ear where hair cells translate them into electric signals sent to the brain.

Rather, parasites move directly from the blood into endothelial cells, where they replicate, cause the cell to burst and then infect neighboring brain cells.

DDRs inhibition with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor appears to insulate the brain via blood - brain barrier repair, which prevents harmful immune cells that circulate in the body from getting into the brain where they can indiscriminately attack and kill healthy and sick neurons, like those that have been unable to perform autophagy to «take out their trash,» says Moussa.

To search for such cells, the Mosers and their team delved into the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC), a slim arc of deep brain tissue where they had discovered the grid cells in 2005.

The cells were then injected into the area of the brain where cells were dying due to Alzheimer's.

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.

The information gathered by your senses is transmitted by nerve cells, or neurons, to specific brain regions where the signal is routed through circuits and sent downstream to areas that essentially translate the information into behavior and get you back on track.

Interneuron cell - based therapy in AD and related models: During brain development, embryonic interneuron precursors are generated in the medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) and retain a remarkable capacity for migration and integration in adult host brains, where they fully mature into functional inhibitory interneurons.

On the plane, I read a couple of applications centered on nanoscience, where tiny tubes are etched into silicon wafers to get substances into the brain or outside of the brain, or even to have better access to single cells and to get substances in and out of cells.

Rods and cones, the major light receptor cells in the mammalian eye, are densely packed across the retina where they convert light into the image - forming signals that allow the brain to create vision.

Describing the brain as a big circuit board in which each new experience creates a new circuit, Hopkins neuroscience professor Richard Huganir, Ph.D. says that he and his team found that during emotional peaks, the hormone norepinephrine dramatically sensitizes synapses - the site where nerve cells make an electro - chemical connection - to enhance the sculpting of a memory into the big board.

These cells can be found where viruses and bacteria can get into the body such as the skin, the gut and the female reproductive tract, as well as organs that are highly prone to injury, such as the brain.

in graduate school where I worked on a project aiming to dedifferentiate mouse brain cells into neural stem cells.

That means you get a powerful, soothing dose of anti-inflammatory compounds right into the cells where you need them most, supporting joint, brain and immune health.

GABA receptors are spread out throughout the brain and they are ligand - activated chloride channels that when activated, allow the negatively charged chloride ions across the cell membrane and into the cell where they reduce cellular activity.

PET scans use a radioactive dye, which is injected into the dog and then «lights up» the brain's anatomy to help identify where cancer cells are.

Since the pioneering research of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel in the late 1950s, it has become apparent that the brain is hardwired to detect significant patterns at every stage of visual processing, beginning with the retina, where the cells are organized into groups that differentiate between vertical lines and horizontal ones, and between movement and stasis.