Sentences with phrase «new nerve»

It will serve as a new nerve system across the entire business.

In fact, the stimulation of playing with toys causes a rat's brain to grow larger and to generate new nerve cells.

The ability to form new nerve cell connections helps you better adapt and respond to stressful situations.

In fact, research suggests aerobic exercise boosts the release of growth factors in the brain that spurs the development of new nerve cell connections, especially in an area of the brain called the hippocampus.

Intermittent fasting may also promote new nerve cell growth, which can positively affect cognitive function.

Blueberries also stimulate the growth of new nerve cells and facilitate better communication between nerve cells via a process known as transduction.

For example, the protein neurexin is needed to direct new nerve cells to correct locations in the brain.

Develops new nerve cells from the stem cells (blank cells) in the hippocampus, which is the part of the brain related to memory and learning.

People should be watching for new nerve or muscle problems, such as feeling pins and needles or having a sensation of weakness in part of the body.

With new nerve impulses arriving at intervals of just 10 or 100 milliseconds in some circumstances, other vesicles quickly follow, discharging their contents and refilling, to ensure a steady supply of neurotransmitter.

Gage's lab showed that, contrary to accepted dogma, human beings are capable of growing new nerve cells throughout life.

The slow and gradual addition of new nerve cells may be like a fine - tuning system, allowing adults to incorporate fresh information without altering our basic brain circuitry.

Investigators from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have found that voluntary running boosts the growth of new nerve cells and improves...

They found that 70 % of the transplanted cells developed into new nerve cells, and many of them had grown new endings connecting with other cells in the rats» spinal cords.

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

Scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered how HIV / AIDS disrupts the normal replication of stem cells in the adult brain, preventing new nerve cells from forming.

«We show for the first time how HIV / AIDS inhibits proliferation of neural stem cells and prevents the formation of new nerve cells in the adult brain,» said Dr. Stuart Lipton, Director of Burnham's Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research.

A normally functioning adult human brain has the ability to partially replenish or repair itself through neurogenesis, the proliferation and development of adult neural progenitor / stem cells (aNPCs) into new nerve cells.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants to replenish lost cells.

To regain function, connections from the brain to the spinal cord must regrow, different types of immune cells have to clear the injury site, and stem cells in the spinal cord need to generate new nerve cells, which then connect to the muscles.

The idea of the implants is to create tiny conduits to guide formation of new nerve fibres, or axons, across this fluid - filled space.

Six months later, Vescovi and Gelain found that new nerve fibres had grown all the way through many of the microscopic channels.

New research suggests that triggering new nerve cell production in adult brains could stave off short - term forgetfulness

Contrary to dogma, the human brain does produce new nerve cells in adulthood.

«This is the first time that astrocytes have been shown to have the capacity to start a process that leads to the generation of new nerve cells after a stroke,» says Zaal Kokaia, Professor of Experimental Medical Research at Lund University.

The young mice showed signs of brain deterioration as well, including inflammation and decreased birthrates of new nerve cells.

A previously unknown mechanism through which the brain produces new nerve cells after a stroke has been discovered at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

The new nerve cells were found to form specialized contacts with other cells.

«Interestingly, even when we blocked the signalling mechanism in mice not subjected to a stroke, the astrocytes formed new nerve cells,» says Zaal Kokaia.

Some of these cells lost their star shape and began to form new nerve cells in a brain region responsible for smell.

The scientists marked 63 cells called radial stem cells, which can divide to create new nerve cells.

Throughout life, stimulating activities spark the growth of new nerve connections and may even prompt a key memory center of the brain to produce neurons.

The study answered long - standing questions in the field, but the researchers stated that this is just the beginning of many more experiments aimed at understanding how our brains are able to form new nerve cells throughout life.

By 8 weeks, new nerve tissue has filled the gap and the animals have fully reversed their severe paralysis.

The generation of new nerve cells was once thought to taper off at the end of embryonic development.

Previous studies have shown that the ability of adult mice to grow new nerve cells in the hippocampus can be influenced by genetic background, Gage says, suggesting that this ability may vary widely across species.

«Everybody else hopes that you can make use of that [nerve cell production] to treat neurodegenerative diseases,» such as Parkinson's disease, or even to encourage the aging brain to regenerate by stimulating the production of new nerve cells, he says.

The study, which was led by postdoc Gregor Pilz and PhD student Sara Bottes, used in vivo 2 - photon imaging and genetic labeling of neural stem cells in order to observe stem cell divisions as they happened, and to follow the maturation of new nerve cells for up to two months.

In a series of studies beginning in 1994, neuroscientist Elizabeth Gould of Rockefeller University in New York City and her co-workers extended this picture, showing that stressed rats release adrenal hormones that suppress new nerve cell production in the brain.

The researchers» goal is to cause new nerve cells to grow in the brain.

Eisner and his colleague Jerrold Meinwald, a chemist at Cornell, have also found new nerve drugs in millipedes, cardiac stimulants in fireflies, and cockroach repellents in an endangered mint plant.

The first order of business for new nerve cells is finding where, among the 100 billion neurons of the nervous system, their partners are waiting.

Blue marks the dentate gyrus, where new nerve cells are born.

Anatomical studies confirmed the importance of the right rehabilitation schedule: Depending on the therapeutic design, different patterns of new nerve fibers that sprouted into the cervical spinal cord from the healthy part of the brain and thus aid functional recovery to varying degrees were apparent.

The debate over how long our brains keep making new nerve cells heats up.

By reversibly deactivating the new nerve fibers that grow, the neurobiologists were ultimately able to demonstrate for the first time that a group of these fibers is essential for the recovery of the motor function observed: Nerve fibers that grew into the spinal cord from the intact front half of the brain — changing sides — can reconnect the spinal cord circuits of the rats» paralyzed limbs to the brain, enabling the animals to grip again.

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

The mice were also injected with a dye that could illuminate the footprints of new nerve cell growth in the brain.

Weiss» group looked at how different parenting models affected new nerve growth in the brain, and the behavioral impact of the neurological changes.

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.