Sentences with phrase «nerve and muscle cells»

Our ability to move, perceive, think, and speak depends on continuously occurring electrical events in nerve and muscle cells, which are explained by physiologist Ashcroft with scientific precision, levity, and sometimes shocking tidbits.

Our nerve and muscle cells send signals to each other using ions and molecules.

The sodium channel lies on the surface of the nerve and muscle cells and is composed of a large molecule called the α - subunit, together with smaller β - subunit molecules.

In tests on zebrafish, flies and mice, scientists found that treating the disease with purified quercetin — which targets beta - catenin — led to a significant improvement in the health of nerve and muscle cells.

«Without this specialized neurotransmitter recycling and endocytosis, synaptic vesicles are not recycled fast enough to keep up with nerve and muscle cell activity,» she said.

It does this by enhancing the activity of glutamate on the chloride channels on the nerve and muscle cell surfaces.

Not exact matches

The companies» R&D will focus on on a gene mutation present in a wide swath of patients with ALS, a degenerative nervous system disease that eats away at nerve cells and weakens muscles.

From it will develop:... 60 trillion cells, 100 thousand miles of nerve fiber, 60 thousand miles of vessels carrying blood around the body, 250 bones, to say nothing of joints, ligaments and muscles.

Some become muscle cells, others nerve cells, and so on.

Practically an electrolyte, potassium is a mineral which helps our muscles contract and our nerve cells function properly.

They are a rich source of vitamin C and flavonoids, which are powerful antioxidants, vitamin K that increases bone mass, potassium that helps electrolyte regulation, nerve function, muscle control, and blood pressure, folate that supports red blood cell formation and fiber.

When swelling, bleeding or other products of inflammation occur inside a compartment, the increase in pressure on the capillaries, muscles and nerves can result in intense pain and loss of oxygenated blood to the muscle and nerve cells.

Anal stenosis is a too narrow anal opening and Hirschsprung's is a case of missing nerve cells in the muscles of the baby's colon.

While you are making adjustments for your changing shape, there are a lot of changes going on inside your womb as your baby, who was just a cluster of cells a couple of months ago, has organs, nerves, muscles and is looking more like a little person.

It is commonly known that calcium is required for strong bones and teeth, but it is little acknowledged that calcium is actually required by every cell in the body to function in a healthful way: from bones to nerves and muscles to blood, calcium serves a significant purpose throughout the body.

Through much trial and effort, his team has learned to use the two cell types to create «sheets» of muscle pre-wired with nerves.

From this tissue, smooth muscle and nerve cells were isolated and then multiplied in the lab.

Eight animals were treated with sphincters engineered from their own muscle and nerve cells, eight animals were not treated and four received a «sham» surgery.

It's easy to understand why you would not want to be consciously aware of the intricacies of your muscle movement, but this can be less intuitive when applied to your perceptions, thoughts, and beliefs, which are also final products of the activity of billions of nerve cells.

The sea sponge may seem like an odd choice for genomic research considering that its simple body lacks muscles, organs, and nerve cells, but the creature provides a wealth of information on how multicellular organism arose.

Stem cells multiply (proliferate) and mature (differentiate) in the womb to become muscle, bone, nerves, etc..

«If ctenophores diverged first, these organ systems likely have been present in the common ancestor of all animals — and sponges and placozoans must subsequently have lost them — or complex traits like nerve cells and muscles must have emerged independently several times in different lineages,» Wörheide explains.

Scientists long thought the transition from swimming to walking happened when fish transitioned from sea to land, as nerve cells gradually activated more and more specific muscles, taking the trunk muscles and wiggling spine out of the equation.

The human body is a complex electrical network: Nerve cells shuttle signals from the brain, and pulses in the heart cause its muscle cells to expand and contract.

The back - and - forth attachment and removal of methyl groups also fine - tunes gene expression in stem cells, which can mature, specialize and multiply to become muscle, bone, nerve, or other cell types.

Now, two new studies have added another disease: multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disorder that strips away nerve cells» protective covers, leading to muscle weakness, blindness, and even death.

The image, a mysterious, gray blob surrounding a spot of intense red, was based on an electron - microscope photo of a neuromuscular junction (the connection between a nerve cell and a muscle) clipped from a magazine sometime in the 1980s.

The virus then enters and hijacks muscle and nerve cells where it replicates and travels up the nerves to infect the brain and other tissues.

But the increased mental muster did not come from neurons, the lanky nerve cells that swap electrical signals and stimulate muscles.

The disease is known to affect motor neurons — nerve cells that control muscles — in the brain, brainstem and spinal cord.

Motor neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain and spinal cord control the function of muscles throughout the body.

Calcium is not just required for strong bones — it is an essential requirement for muscle and nerve cells to work normally.

When a spinal cord injury takes place, extensions of nerve cells from the brainstem — the region of the brain where the command and coordination for urination takes place — become disconnected from cells in the spinal cord that control the muscles that squeeze or relax the bladder and open and close the urethra.

Muscular Dystrophy is a hereditary condition marked by weakness and progressive wasting of the muscles, while ALS impacts nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

These molecules tell the cells which side is right, which is left; where to morph into vessel or nerve, muscle or bone; and when to stop growing.

The researchers measured tail response learning to electric shock to determine patterns of aging in both the nerve cell that senses touch of the tail, called sensory neurons, and the motor neurons that signal the tail muscle to contract.

«You'd still have to ration the therapy,» cautions Robert Hariri, chief researcher at Anthrogenesis in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, which announced this year that it had morphed human placental stem cells into nerve, blood, cartilage, skin, and muscle cells.

The condition, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, attacks and kills nerve cells controlling muscles, leading to weakness, paralysis and, ultimately, respiratory failure.

Understanding this process - which is particularly important when cells are first taking on specialized identities such as nerve cells, muscle, skin, and so on - helps explain how complex organisms can arise from a finite number of genes.

The rare progressive condition attacks nerve cells located in the brain and spinal cord responsible for controlling voluntary muscles.

«We want to know more about why these two poisons have nearly opposite effects — tetanus toxin travels through nerve cells to the spinal cord and cause severe muscle cramps whereas the botulinum neurotoxin stays put and causes paralysis.

SMA is caused by a mutation in a gene that is vital for the survival of nerve cells that connect the brain and spinal cord to the muscles, known as motor neurons.

With a microfabricated ion pump built from organic electronic components, ions can be sent to nerve or muscle cells at the speed of the nervous system and with a precision of a single cell.

This process, called cell differentiation, gives rise to all the various cell types, such as nerve, muscle, or blood cells, which are diverse in shape and function and make up tissues and organs.

MG affects the transmission of signals between the peripheral motoric nerve cells and muscles, resulting in muscular fatigue in the patient,» Dr Harbo explains.

The findings relate to a type of cell connection that allows electrical and chemical messages to flow from nerve to muscle cells, enabling motion.

The great New York Yankees first baseman was diagnosed with ALS in 1939 and died two years later from the progressive neuromuscular disorder, which attacks nerve cells that lead from the brain and the spinal cord to muscles throughout the body.

Shenoy's lab pioneered the algorithms used to decode the complex volleys of electrical signals fired by nerve cells in the motor cortex, the brain's command center for movement, and convert them in real time into actions ordinarily executed by spinal cord and muscles.

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By applying an electrode to the muscle cell, Teich and his colleagues were able to detect the release of single «packets» of neurotransmitter from the tip of the nerve cell.