Sentences with phrase «number of hair cells»

When they examined the organ of Corti under the microscope, they saw that small numbers of hair cells had regenerated on their own.

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In 2014, Christiano and other CUMC researchers identified the immune cells responsible for destroying hair follicles in people with alopecia areata and tested an FDA - approved drug that led to complete hair regrowth in a small number of patients.

Compared with a normal mouse cochlea (top), cisplatin exposure reduces the number of outer hair cells (middle).

«This method offers the possibility of inducing large numbers of hair follicles or rejuvenating existing hair follicles, starting with cells grown from just a few hundred donor hairs.

First, imaging experiments revealed that Tregs have a close relationship with the stem cells that reside within hair follicles and allow them to regenerate: the number of active Tregs clustering around follicle stem cells typically swells by three-fold as follicles enter the growth phase of their regular cycle of rest and regeneration.

The team also found that the flightless cormorants have an abnormally high number of genetic mutations affecting cilia — small, hair - like structures that protrude from cells and regulate everything from normal development to reproduction.

The number that developed varied, but in the base of cochlea, where the tissue received the most damage, hair cell numbers returned to about 40 % of the original.

«Work continues to identify the other factors, including small molecules, necessary to not only promote the maturation and survival of the newly generated hair cells, but also increase their number,» Zuo said.

But it hasn't been possible to generate sufficient number of hair - follicle - generating stem cells — until now.

In fact, they repeatedly generated iPS cells from the tiny number of keratinocytes attached to a single hair plucked from a human scalp.

Melanocytes have the capacity to respond to a diverse number of extracellular signals, including UVR, endocrine signaling cascades that occur during pregnancy, micro-environments of the stem cell hair bulge vs. differentiated hair follicle niches, and hypoxic conditions found in metastatic melanoma tumors.