Sentences with phrase «living nerve cells»

In bench assays using living nerve cells to monitor new neuronal connections, Harding, Wright and their colleagues found Dihexa to be seven orders of magnitude more powerful than BDNF, which has yet to be effectively developed for therapeutic use.

Scientists have built the first silicon chip equipped with living nerve cells.

Not exact matches

Francis Crick famously asserted that human life is «no more than the behavior of... nerve cells and their associated molecules.»

Furthermore, nerve cells have a relationship to all other types of living cells in the body.

If we could but restore or bring about the normal functioning of brain cells and nerve tissues, as well as their own subsidiary chemical activity in such cases, then mental life would come flooding back in fullness and richness.

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

To help make ideas about energy more concrete, for example, the new unit will use a variety of analogies from more familiar physical systems (e.g., combustion and charging a cellphone battery) to help students understand those same energy - releasing and energy - requiring chemical reactions and energy transfer when they occur in living organisms (e.g., cellular respiration, creating a charge across a membrane in mitochondria and nerve cells) where the reactions are more complex and difficult to observe.

The researchers set up a system to grow asymmetric nerve cells in an observation chamber and use live cell imaging to track how rabies virus particles are transported along the axons.

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).

Approximately one out of every 20 people in the course of his or her life suffers an epileptic attack, during which the nerve cells get out of their usual rhythm and fire in a very rapid frequency.

There are details of the structure of the living cell, essential features in the composition of metals, cotton, silk, rubber, paint, bone, nerve, and a thousand other things which are hidden even from the microscope, and must always remain so hidden because the failure does not lie with the skill of the optician but with the incapacity of light itself.

Interestingly, two additional Nature papers released simultaneously with the Regev and Kuchroo team's study revealed that ILC2 cells in the gut also express Nmur1, take on an inflammatory state when exposed to NMU, and live in close proximity to NMU - producing nerve cells.

Using these metrics, the researchers saw signs of newborn nerve cells in fetal brains and brains from the first year of life, but they became rarer in older children.

When we experimentally increased the expression of the microRNAs in model nerve cells designed to replicate the conditions of HD, the cells lived longer, indicating that these miRNAs may promote cell survival,» explained lead author Richard Myers, PhD, professor of neurology at BUSM.

The team hopes to apply this method to the nerve cells, bone marrow, and brain tissue of living animals and humans.

The study answered long - standing questions in the field, but the researchers stated that this is just the beginning of many more experiments aimed at understanding how our brains are able to form new nerve cells throughout life.

Microprocessors modeled on networks of nerve cells promise blazing speed at incredibly low power — if they live up to hopes.

Although neuroscientists often view single nerve cells as bit players in mental life, new evidence indicates that some star on their own in recognizing specific people or objects.

«They play an important role in the excitation of nerve cell axons and signal transfer between various cells,» says Prof. Dr. Heinz Beck, who conducts research in experimental epileptology at the Department of Epileptology, at the Life & Brain center and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).

After an initial outbreak, HSV - 2 virus lives in nerve cells and is often inactive, with flare - ups occurring with diminishing frequency as the body builds up immunity to the virus.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants to replenish lost cells.

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Another Kavli researcher, Steven Siegelbaum, uses a technology called two - photon microscopy to image pre-synaptic terminals (the nerve cell tips that send charges from one cell to another) within slices of living brain tissue.

It enables us, in a living animal, to make all nerve cells, or a subset of them — for example only the inhibitory or only the excitatory cells — visible through fluorescence.

They have used optogenetics to measure communication between individual nerve cells in a live mouse.

Gage's lab showed that, contrary to accepted dogma, human beings are capable of growing new nerve cells throughout life.

Josh Huang's new tool set enables visualization and manipulation of inhibitory GABA nerve cells throughout the living brain

Harnessing the powerful healing properties of adult stem cells found in your own fat tissue, Okyanos Cell Therapy offers new hope for this neurodegenerative condition by enabling brain and nerve cell repair for the chance at an improved quality of lCell Therapy offers new hope for this neurodegenerative condition by enabling brain and nerve cell repair for the chance at an improved quality of lcell repair for the chance at an improved quality of life.

Yes, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and has found its way into many commercial products, for example, strong, lightweight materials for better fuel economy; targeted drug delivery for safer and more effective cancer treatments; clean, accessible drinking water around the world; superfast computers with vast amounts of storage; self - cleaning surfaces; wearable health monitors; more efficient solar panels; safer food through packaging and monitoring; regrowth of skin, bone, and nerve cells for better medical outcomes; smart windows that lighten or darken to conserve energy; and nanotechnology - enabled concrete that dries more quickly and has sensors to detect stress or corrosion at the nanoscale in roads, bridges, and buildings.

Stem cell treatment can encourage the nerves to resume communication and thus lead to a better quality of life.

This form of the virus lives in the nerve cells next to the ears.

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.

It's said to live at the end of many people's nerve endings, but it's soooooo tiny, that your immune cells are even too big to get there.

Living cells respond to EM waves that are in resonance with them; some cells, particularly nerve cells, are more readily affected.

Joint cartilage does not have a blood supply or nerves but it does have living cells.

Instead of being completely destroyed by your dog's immune system, some of the virus enter cells within the pet's nerve centers (trigeminal & lumbosacral ganglia, etc.) and live there in a state of suspended animation forever.

In the spinal cord, stem cells replace dead neuron support cells and give «life support» to otherwise dying nerves.