Sentences with phrase «normal neurons»

There are several reasons why nobody before Shatz had found genes coding for MHCI in normal neurons.

Researchers are learning whether normal neuron behavior depends on the ability to produce an essential neurotransmitter.

Indeed they found that NHE6 mutant cells, if given extra BDNF, produced axon and dendrite growth and branching that was more like normal neurons.

Drugs called calcium - channel blockers, which are commonly used to treat high blood pressure, produced normal neuron migration in the mini-brains, Pasca said, apparently by patching the defect that makes the neurons too jumpy.

«It appears that in normal neurons, caspase - 2 and RhoA form an inactive complex outside the dendritic spines,» said Dr. Lefort.

As protons are positively charged, this caused negatively charged electrons to be attracted towards them in the IZO channel which subsequently allowed a current to flow through the channel, mimicking the passing on of a signal in a normal neuron.

«In contrast to normal neurons and glia, which transition to ketone bodies (beta - hydroxybutyrate) for respiratory energy when glucose levels are reduced, malignant brain tumors are mostly dependent on non-oxidative substrate level phosphorylation due to structural and functional abnormalities in mitochondria.