Sentences with phrase «nerve cells from a patient»

We can get new nerve cells from a patient's own eye.

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The study, published Feb. 5 in Nature Neuroscience, showed that the patients» nerve cells — converted directly from patients» skin cells — exhibited «symptoms» of the disorder, including DNA damage, dysfunctional mitochondria and cell death.

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilepsy.

Another approach might be to selectively remove CD11b leukocytes from the blood circulation so that they are not available to adhere to the blood - nerve barrier endothelial cells in patient's nerves.

Nerve cells extracted from a patient's own nose could one day be used to cure paralysis.

Developing safe and effective therapies for conditions such as peripheral nerve disorders requires the ability to take investigations from cells in a petri dish to patients in a clinic.

Now Ahern has discovered that some drugs used to put patients to sleep may also increase postoperative pain from the procedure itself by boosting the activity of a protein called TRPA1 on the surface of pain - sensing nerve cells.

By examining the cell cultivation dishes, the researchers were able to observe how the patients» cells behaved and developed from stem cells to nerve cells and compare them with cells from healthy controls.

During an early clinical trial at the Miami Project last year, researchers took Schwann cells from an easily accessible sensory nerve in a patient's leg, grew them in culture and injected them at the point of the spinal cord injury.

The researchers, led by University of California, San Diego neuroscientist Mark Tuszynski, took skin cells from the patients, grew them up in a culture dish and genetically engineered them to make human nerve growth factor (NGF).

Easily accessible from nasal biopsies, these cells — which belong to nerve tissues and can differentiate into neurons — constitute an interesting model to identify the genes and proteins whose expression is deregulated in patients with ASD.

Alterations in the genetic coding for a nerve cell receptor, which detects a chemical signal that is key to behavioral change, could point the way to designing therapies most effective for patients suffering from schizophrenia, drug addiction and other mental illnesses.

The evidence from the patients examined by Rice and Bowsher suggests that the nerve cells also act as an additional sensory system.

The pattern of RGC loss in patients as well as information obtained from laboratory research all point to the fact that an important site of pathology occurs at the optic nerve head, a region where the axonal cell processes of RGCs exit the eye on their way to the visual centers of the brain.

Using flourescence imaging, the scientists tested calcium response (an important nervous system ion implicated in the symptoms of bipolar disorder) in olfactory nerve cell samples from 17 bipolar patients (10 currently taking medication, 7 medication - free) with those of matched controls.

«This technology should allow us to very rapidly model neurodegenerative diseases in a dish by making nerve cells from individual patients in just a matter of days — rather than the months required previously,» said Dr. Lipton.

It is now almost routine to grow skin cells from a patient with, say, a neurological disease; turn them into pluripotent cells in a Petri dish; convert the cells into nerve cells to study the disease process; and contemplate using the cells to repair the same patient's damaged brain.

MS patients could benefit from the increased energy supply to the brain, which also results in improved nerve cell protection.

Dr. Olby wants to restore the myelin sheath to these surviving axons by taking fat cells from the patient and turning them into stem cells that can be combined with nerve cells and injected into the site of the damage, regrowing the sheath.