Sentences with phrase «nerve cell in»

A two - photon microscope image of a layer 2/3 nerve cell in the visual cortex of a mouse.

Scientists had altered their genes so that they lacked a certain type of nerve cell in their spinal cords.

Reporting online in Neuron, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a group of proteins that program a common type of brain nerve cell to connect with another type of nerve cell in the brain.

«We were able to develop this very novel method to go to a single neuron and manipulate how it computes» by using drugs to block neurotransmitters at the level of a single nerve cell in a frog brain, and then measuring what happens to that neuron in response to frog calls, Alluri says.

The signals leap from the axons across a synapse, or gap, to the dendrites of the next nerve cell in the neural net.

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

Nerve cells in our brains control our circadian rhythms, which influences sleep - wake cycles, hormone release, emotions and energy levels.

Lately I've begun to thank God for it, this chemical that — if scientists are right, and they aren't even sure — inhibits my overly efficient reuptake of another chemical (serotonin) that somehow facilitates communication between nerve cells in my brain.

The consumed caffeine caused dopamine, a carrier of messages between nerve cells in the brain, to flood the brain's pleasure center resulting in decreased pain sensitivity, a huge benefit for chronic pain suffers.

This damages some of the nerve cells in the brain, and affects my dad's memory, decision - making and personality.

Dr. Allan Schore, the UCLA researcher, shows that cortisol (stress hormone) released during intense crying harm nerve cells in the brain.

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.

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter — a chemical messenger — that helps the brainstem communicate with nerve cells in the spinal cord and beyond.

These 24 - hour biological clocks has a «master clock», which is a group of nerve cells in the brain (with a big name that I'm not going to bore you with).

- Speeds myelination * between the nerve cells in the stomach and the brain.

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.

Using the mouse as an experimental model, LMU neurobiologist PD Dr. Conny Kopp - Scheinpflug and her research group have now demonstrated that the activity of nerve cells in the auditory system has a direct effect on myelinization — higher levels of activity correlate with the formation of thicker myelin sheaths.

The best explanation so far, says Henrietta van Praag, a neurobiologist at the National Institute on Aging, is that exercising the heart somehow stimulates growth factors to produce new nerve cells in the brain.

The main cog in the human biological clock is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a group of nerve cells in a region at the base of the brain called the hypothalamus.

Scientists have discovered why a single mutated protein can lead to serious mental retardation in men with a common genetic disorder called fragile - X syndrome: The healthy protein is essential for establishing during childhood the adult pattern of connections between nerve cells in the brain.

The cells also underwent tiny zaps of electricity, which allowed researchers to see how the neurons might have communicated with other nerve cells in the brain.

The males also had fewer nerve cells in their brains and their brains contained a type of immune cell that shouldn't be present there.

This type of inflammation between 18 and 32 weeks of gestation in humans has been linked to preterm birth as well as an imbalance of immune cells in the brain of the offspring and even death of nerve cells in the brains of those children.

The problems can be traced to loss of nerve cells in the brain areas responsible for those capabilities — such as the basal ganglia, brain stem and cerebral cortex.

The traditional view is that learning is based on the strengthening or weakening of the contacts between the nerve cells in the brain.

Nerve cells in our brains work together in harmony to store and retrieve short - term memory, and are not solo artists as previously thought, Western - led brain research has determined.

Adam Sachs (left) and Julio Martinez - Trujillo (right) have discovered that nerve cells in the brain work together to store and retrieve short - term memory.

But there are also certain things that if an investigator like [s] to do, and I came from cellular neurobiology having learnt from Grundfest and from Wade Marshall and from my period at the NIH how to study nerve cells in the brain; and I was until that point studying complex organisms — a cat; Aplysia fitted me to a tee.

In an unexpected twist, two antibodies designed to fight Alzheimer's disease instead made nerve cells in mice misbehave more.

Gaiti Hasan's team from NCBS has now uncovered how this happens — the researchers have discovered an integrative circuit of nerve cells in fruit fly brains that allows them to ignore the lack of proteins in their food to enter the pupal stage.

The study successfully countered harmful effects of mutant huntingtin and protected nerve cells in several models of Huntington's disease.

Test - tube experiments showed that BMAA can kill motor nerve cells in the spinal cord, the very ones destroyed by ALS.

In a report on the study, published Feb. 5 in Nature Neuroscience, researchers say the biochemical receptor, known as a G protein - coupled receptor, was present on nerve cells in the lower respiratory tracts of lab mice.

In a developing fetus, she surmised, those phone calls would reach groups of nerve cells in the LGN; as their synaptic connections with the retinal neurons strengthened, the LGN neurons would begin forming «area codes» of their own.

The study — which looked at the action of Substance P within nerve cells in the lab and in animal models — focused on acute pain, but Professor Gamper aims to look at its role within chronic pain as well.

«It was like neighborhoods of nerve cells in the eye were placing phone calls to the brain to check connections,» Shatz recalls.

The neurotransmitter acetylcholine is released by nerve cells in the brain when people or mice are under mild stress or concentrating on learning something new.

They tested neural tissue from people who had died from Huntington's disease, a degenerative disorder of nerve cells in the base of the brain.

Adult mice and other rodents sprout new nerve cells in memory - related parts of their brains.

A single genetic mutation made the Zika virus far more dangerous by enhancing its ability to kill nerve cells in developing brains, a new study suggests.

Comparing brain size and number of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex among several animal species revealed some surprises.

MASTER HUNTER Nerve cells in a mouse's amygdala send messages that help the rodent chase and kill prey such as crickets, a new study shows.

NEW ROLE A kind of brain cell called an astrocyte (shown) may help nerve cells in the hippocampus form traumatic memories, a study in rats suggests.

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.

In contrast to earlier prominent studies, Shawn Sorrells of the University of California, San Francisco and his colleagues failed to find newborn nerve cells in the memory - related hippocampi of adult brains.

The discovery of a new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in the brain communicate with each other to regulate our learning and long - term memory could have major benefits to understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy and dementia.

They collect outside the nerve cells in the brain and disrupt the signaling system between neurons, blocking them from relaying messages.

Scientists made select nerve cells in mice's brains sensitive to light, and then used lasers to activate specific groups of those cells.

Lewy bodies are protein deposits that develop in nerve cells in regions of the brain involved in thinking, memory and movement.

Nonetheless, for the researchers, «The success of our cell engineering experiments, which make it possible to produce nerve cells in a controlled and unlimited manner, and to transplant them, is a world first.