Sentences with phrase «neurons grown in the lab»

Chen Gu and colleagues at The Ohio State University discovered that they could induce the formation of axonal varicosities in hippocampal neurons grown in the lab by «puffing» them with bursts of liquid from a small pipette.

Promisingly, another drug called imipramine, which belongs to the second main class of antidepressants, had similar effects on miRNA - 1202 to citalopram, when applied to neurons grown in the lab.

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At the same time, researchers have found that much smaller protein clusters called oligomers — made of only a few copies of these proteins — can be highly toxic to motor neuron - like cells grown in the lab and thus are more likely to be the chief causes of brain - cell death in these diseases.

In 2015, her lab published a paper in Cell (DOI: 10.1016 / j.cell.2015.04.012) that found that both adult and pediatric glioma cells grew faster when adjacent to highly active neuronIn 2015, her lab published a paper in Cell (DOI: 10.1016 / j.cell.2015.04.012) that found that both adult and pediatric glioma cells grew faster when adjacent to highly active neuronin Cell (DOI: 10.1016 / j.cell.2015.04.012) that found that both adult and pediatric glioma cells grew faster when adjacent to highly active neurons.

To further explore nuclear transport's role in Huntington's disease, Grima took lab - grown mouse neurons and used chemical switches to a) turn on both an additional healthy copy of the RanGAP1 gene and a mutant version of Huntingtin; b) just turn on the mutant Huntingtin; or c) just turn on a healthy version of Huntingtin.

Scientists working to develop new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases have been stymied by the inability to grow human motor neurons in the lab.

In 2010, the lab made the exciting breakthrough that dopamine neurons could be grown from human iPS cells and transplanted effectively to mitigate disease, setting the stage for forthcoming clinical trials in humanIn 2010, the lab made the exciting breakthrough that dopamine neurons could be grown from human iPS cells and transplanted effectively to mitigate disease, setting the stage for forthcoming clinical trials in humanin humans.

Understanding this process enables Canals» lab to grow a huge number of neurons in dishes in the lab - useful both for basic research and also as a source of healthy cells for experimenting with cell transplantation.