Sentences with phrase «new nerve cell»

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.

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

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

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

They found that exercise may help cognition by increasing blood and oxygen to the brain, increasing levels of norepinephrine, and endorphins to decrease stress and improve mood, and increasing growth factors that help create new nerve cells and support synaptic plasticity.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The new nerve cells were found to form specialized contacts with other 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 young mice showed signs of brain deterioration as well, including inflammation and decreased birthrates of new nerve cells.

«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Not exact matches

To help make ideas about energy more concrete, for example, the new unit will use a variety of analogies from more familiar physical systems (e.g., combustion and charging a cellphone battery) to help students understand those same energy - releasing and energy - requiring chemical reactions and energy transfer when they occur in living organisms (e.g., cellular respiration, creating a charge across a membrane in mitochondria and nerve cells) where the reactions are more complex and difficult to observe.

Because its powerful technology can measure microstructural features in the brain, such as the diameter of nerve cell axons, it enables researchers to answer entirely new questions, says CUBRIC director Derek Jones.

In the new study, Zigmond and colleagues found damaged nerve cells produce a stream of molecular lures that specifically attract neutrophils to injury sites in mice.

Immune cells are normally associated with fighting infection but in a new study, scientists have discovered how they also help the nervous system clear debris, clearing the way for nerve regeneration after injury.

Results from the new study suggest immunostimulant molecules that target neutrophils at nerve injury sites might enhance clean - up and promote nerve cell repair.

BRAIN CANDY A new database offers a deep look at living human nerve cells, revealing elaborate branching structures and myriad shapes, such as in this neuron called a pyramidal cell (cell image, left and 3 - D computer reconstruction, right).

When new information needs processing, the nerve cells can develop new synaptic contacts with their neighbouring cells or strengthen existing synapses.

«New learning mechanism for individual nerve cells.»

In contrast, the new method used on mice causes certain nerve cells to fire at a specific rhythm, generating brain waves that researchers believe may clear A-beta.