«Regulator of chromosome structure crucial to healthy brain function and nerve development: Cohesin protein identified as key to control of chromosome structure underlying
nerve cell network formation.»
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The brain is a complex organ — a
network of
nerve cells, or neurons, producing thought, memory, action, and feeling.
Brains consume about as much power as a lightbulb, yet can perform calculations that computers still can't match, thanks to large interconnected
networks of
nerve cells.
They included PTPRG, which encodes a protein that enables
nerve cells to connect as they form
nerve networks.
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.
Steve: And that the thickness is
networks of
nerve cells joining together and then the thinness is discarding of some of those connections when the brain figures out they don't need them.
Once Hartgerink and his team started to investigate the phenomenon, they found that even without additives their MDP is rapidly infiltrated by host
cells, provokes a temporary inflammatory response, does not develop a fibrous capsule, supports the infiltration of a mature vascular
network and recruits
nerve fibers.
Lots of synapses communicating between different
nerve cells form
networks and LTP intensifies the connectivity of the
cells in the
network to make information transfer more efficient.
Other vital structures, the axons and dendrites — known collectively as neurites — that project from the
nerve cells and send and receive messages are dependent on this neural transport
network.
OUR knowledge of things in the world around us is stored in
networks of
nerve cells all round our brains.
The whole
network of
nerve cells seemed to activate simultaneously and synchronously.
Nerve signals control the communication between the billions of
cells in an organism and enable them to work together in neural
networks.
As Gerald Hahn, Alejandro F. Bujan and colleagues describe in the journal PLoS Computational Biology, the ability of
networks of neurons to resonate can amplify oscillations in the activity of
nerve cells, allowing signals to travel much farther than in the absence of resonance.
The team from the cluster of excellence BrainLinks - BrainTools and the Bernstein Center at the University of Freiburg and the UNIC department of the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Gif - sur - Yvette created a computer model of
networks of
nerve cells and analyzed its properties for signal propagation.
Nerve cells, for example, form long extensions that are attracted to signals from other
cells in order to produce the
network that forms the nervous system; similarly, scavenger
cells recognise the scent of harmful germs in order that they can pursue and destroy them.
Microprocessors modeled on
networks of
nerve cells promise blazing speed at incredibly low power — if they live up to hopes.
The researchers concluded that in the early stages after stroke, improvements in voluntary movement can be attributed to a reduction in brain swelling because of the trauma and other spontaneous repairs, while later improvements result from «neuronal plasticity» — the reorganization or regeneration of
nerve cells within the spinal cord in response to changes in the
nerve network.
Researchers focused on injury to
cells in the peripheral nervous system (PNS)-- the crucial
network of
nerves outside the brain and spinal cord.
By stimulating the
nerves one after another, and listening in on the
network, we can check whether the
cells are connected to each other and determine the effects a signal has.»
For example, they are investigating
networks of
nerve cells by detecting the magnetic field each
nerve cell pulse emits.
It is a complex, highly organised, structure, whose function relies on vast
networks containing two main groups of
nerve cells, or neurons: pyramidal neurons and interneurons.
Researchers need only a computer mouse and web browser to home in on individual
cells and zoom back out to intertwined
networks of
nerve bundles.
Just as various areas of
nerve cells, the neurons, cooperate in our brain, mathematical units work together in the artificial neural
network.
The human nervous system is a vast
network of several billion neurons, or
nerve cells, endowed with the remarkable ability to receive, store and transmit information.
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nervous system The
network of
nerve cells and fibers that transmits
nerve impulses between parts of the body.
Recent Scientific projects as principal investigator: • 2003/2005 (EU V Frame Program): «International Bank of DNA,
cell lines and
nerve - muscle - cardiac tissues» - «European
Network of Human Biological Material for Rare Diseases - Eurobiobank».
In brains that learn with ease, groups of
nerve cells switch easily between conversations with other
cells in their
networks.
«But the brain works by virtue of these connections that allow one
nerve cell to talk to many other
nerve cells, sort of like a Twitter account, and each
nerve cell is also the recipient of a
network of information from thousands of other
nerve cells.»
Almost certainly in the form of which particular
nerve cells are connected together in little
networks.
All brain functions are performed by interconnected
networks of excitatory and inhibitory
nerve cells.
Myelin is generated by specialized
cells, oligodendrocytes in the brain and spinal column (the central nervous system, or CNS), and Schwann
cells in the
network of
nerves outside the CNS that connect it with the rest of the body (the peripheral nervous system).
-- basically a
network of
nerve fibers and neuron
cell bodies that receive signals from the brain.
The brain is made up of
networks of interconnecting
nerve cells called neurons and supportive glial
cells.