Sentences with phrase «nerve axons»

CU - Boulder postdoctoral researcher Yu - Zen Chen, a Nature Communications paper co-author, said the team currently is trying to find ways to raise the level of the PSR - 1 in nematode cells, which likely would promote faster healing in nerve axons.

A recent finding in our laboratory led to the novel hypothesis that immune system events involving lymphocytes are necessary for RGC cell death and optic nerve axon loss in glaucoma.

Retinal ganglion cell loss in a rat ocular hypertension model is sectorial and involves early optic nerve axon loss.

In the AIDP variant of Guillain - Barré syndrome, the focus of the autoimmune attack is the myelin sheath, a layer of insulation that surrounds nerve axons, similar to the insulation around the wires of an electric cable.

Twiss, Kalinski, and colleagues had shown recently that messenger RNA located in peripheral nerve axons is an important part of the process by which the peripheral nerves are able to regenerate after injury.

Mouse nerve axons (green) connect to muscle synapses (red) to coordinate movement.

At that size, the motes could nestle up to just a few nerve axons and continually record their electrical activity.

The tendrils in pink are nerve axons reaching out from a transplanted eye.

Understanding the role of glial cells in glaucoma as well as what happens to the optic nerve where the retinal nerve axons leave the eye may present new therapeutic targets and even potential biomarkers of glaucoma.

In contrast, mitochondria moving along the nerve axons of normal mice, viewed under the same time - lapse conditions, resembled an aerial shot of a highway.

He also is co-author of the companion paper being published in Jan. 7 in Nature led by Associate Professor Massimo Hilliard of the UQ's Queensland Brain Institute that shows the major role played by PSR - 1 in the regeneration of nerve axons, a holy grail of sorts for neurologists involved with patients who have suffered central nervous system damage from accidents or diseases.

The common theme in these scenarios is destruction of nerve axons, the long wires that transmit signals to other parts of the body, allowing movement, sight and sense of touch, among other vital functions.

Through dozens of nerve biopsies, they did discover a key difference in AMAN from traditional GBS in that the attack focuses on the nerve axon, rather than the surrounding myelin.

At the cellular level, consider the voltage-gated behavior of the sodium channels in a nerve axon or the «negative damping» of hair cells in the cochlea.