Sentences with phrase «nearby neurons»

The researchers measured electrical activity of the neurons within the ensemble and compared it with nearby neurons that were not activated by the environmental cue.

This chemical conversation triggers an intricate cascade, inviting nearby neurons to fire and ultimately creating a network of connections with varying strengths.

After a spinal cord injury, nearby neurons lose insulation and the ability to communicate via natural electrical impulses.

The electrical activity inside the place cells synced with the electric field in nearby neurons.

Removing LRP4 from nearby neurons did not yield the same negative effects.

In contrast, the new data suggest that neurons in different parts of the brain express fundamentally different genetic programs during development, while nearby neurons in different layers of the cortex are surprisingly similar in their gene expression.

The researchers also received detailed instructions on how to grapple with a major technical challenge: Electrodes in patients» brains often detect pulses from two or more nearby neurons at the same time, which may show up in the computer as one big signal.

These immune responses help protect brain from the infection, but they can also cause collateral damage — such as the death of nearby neurons.

In addition, amyloid - β, produced by nearby neurons, may be an antimicrobial peptide that gets recruited to fight the pathogen; the peptide surrounds and seals off the pathogen (4).

Now the astrocytes again sucked up glutamate, helping nearby neurons recover.

BDNF release from single cells elicits local dendritic growth in nearby neurons.

But when the immune system becomes activated in response to an illness or injury, glia in regions associated with pain processing seem to take on another role: They release inflammatory molecules that interact with nearby neurons to amplify pain signals.

These metals can cause beta - amyloid peptides to misfold and bind together in clumps that can promote inflammation and oxidation — a process similar to rusting — in nearby neurons, eventually killing them.

Each plaque triggered only half as much damage to nearby neurons, an indicator that the compound had prevented some of the neurological damage that leads to Alzheimer's disease.