Sentences with phrase «of brain cell types»

They used the forebrain, the first mini-brain with the six layers of brain cell types found in the human cortex, for the current study on Zika.

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Recent insights into learning - oriented brain cells called mirror neurons even hold out the possibility that someday we will have pills that will impart particular types of skills, such as computer programming or business decision making.

Only a special systemic order of atoms in certain molecules of different types of brain cells, steady activity of these cells and excitations coming from sensoric nerves and running to associative and motoric centers are the basis of the peculiarity of brain function.

My aim to strike an «e» — or even to type a complete word «the» triggers a burst of physical responses in my brain cells, which in turn mediate these «amplified» feelings to adjacent occasions in other brain cells and in neurons.

The existing patterns of physical feeling in my brain cells have to be deflected repeatedly by fresh novelty — now this way, now that way, in a tedious sequence of trial - and - error, before these tiny bodily societies learn the new patterns which enable them to respond to my aims to type.

We can compare the diverse tasks performed by a colony to the many proteins generated by gene transcription, to various cell types of a developing embryo, or to the firing patterns of neurons in the brain.

It offers cardio protection, it helps lower bad cholesterol, it may help prevent the progression of multiple sclerosis, it has the ability to regenerate brain cells after a stroke, it has the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier to potentially ward off Alzheimer's disease, apparently it's good at wiping amyloid plaque from the brain (which studies haves linked to Alzheimer's), it may help to prevent certain types of cancer, and studies have shown that it inhibits cancer cell growth and metastases (meaning it keeps cancer from spreading).

All cell membranes are made of fat, but the only polyunsaturated fats the cell membranes in the brain can use are DHA (a type of omega 3) and arachadonic acid.

During pregnancy your brain cells won't get the perfect amount of sugar which will cause this type of headache.

The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human embryonic kidney cells, brain cell samples and neurons derived from the stem cells of healthy people and those with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.

In the direct reprogramming, the researchers exposed the adult skin cells to a specific mix of signaling molecules the scientists» past research had found would convert healthy skin cells directly into a type of brain cell called medium spiny neurons, without intermediate steps along the way.

In addition to maintaining stem cell populations and keeping the brain supplied with all its cell types, the investigators showed that NAD also is vital for the process of cognition itself.

In a new study published in Cell Reports, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes identified different types of neurons in a brain region called the reticular thalamus.

«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»

The males also had fewer nerve cells in their brains and their brains contained a type of immune cell that shouldn't be present there.

This type of inflammation between 18 and 32 weeks of gestation in humans has been linked to preterm birth as well as an imbalance of immune cells in the brain of the offspring and even death of nerve cells in the brains of those children.

The team at the University's Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine were surprised to find the molecules can also boost direct conversions from one type of mature cell to another — including transforming skin cells into brain cells.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

The KAP1 protein acts as a regulator for several other genes which allow the brain to grow healthily and develop several types of brain cell.

In the Cell study, Dr. Massagué, with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of breast and lung cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many cancer cells that enter the brain are killed by astrocytes.

Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have mobilized advanced imaging and computational methods to comprehensively map — «count» — the total populations of specific types of cells throughout the mouse brain.

This type of stem cell, called an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell, is found in the brain and spinal cord.

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«Maybe the invention of this new type of stem cell was important in driving brain evolution,» says Mueller.

These conditions are distinguished by the different types of brain nerve cells that are first affected and by the symptoms that first appear.

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

The olfactory system comprises six million to 10 million receptor cells (of which there are nearly 400 different types) and links to multiple brain structures and neural pathways, including those involved in memory, emotion and movement.

At Northwestern University, chemist Samuel Stupp and his research team have developed various types of amphiphile molecules (each end is chemically attracted to a different kind of material) that form self - assembling nanofibers, which in turn can prompt the regeneration of bone and brain cells.

«Disturbances to these processes may cause neuronal stem cells to develop into different types of cells or may cause neurons to migrate to different locations in the brain, changing neuronal circuitry and potentially leading to behavioral disorders like schizophrenia.»

Previous research had shown that nicotine seems to have conflicting effects on different types of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, proteins on the surface of brain cells that respond to nicotine and the naturally occurring neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

«Only by understanding the complexities of what happens in specific cell - types found in specific areas of the brain during this disease can targeted treatments for Parkinson's disease be produced.»

To make sure she understood how nuclei, dendrites, and axons came together to form different types of brain cells, she pulled out her crochet hook and went to work.

LPA receptors are all over neural progenitor cells, which go on to form neurons and other types of cells in a young brain.

The LPA receptor is expressed in the brain of human fetuses, just as in mice, and in the same types of neural progenitor cells.

They then encouraged the stem cells to grow into neurons, a type of brain cell.

These cells are similar to brain astroglial cells, and both types of glial cells are activated after TBI.

Researchers say their findings, published in Annals of Neurology, are «surprising» as the results differ from what has been seen in studies of brain regions that harbor other brain cell - types.

The virus appears to invade the brain by infecting a type of glial cell called olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which nourish smell - sensing neurons and guide them from the olfactory bulb to their targets in the nervous system.

In a paper published in Nature Immunology in 2011, Dr. Rostami and colleagues showed that the Th - 17 cells also produced another cytokine called GM - CSF, which created a chain reaction with another cell type ultimately increasing the GM - CSF levels in the brain of mouse models significantly.

The projects vary slightly in their aims — the US BRAIN initiative will start by cataloguing the types of cells in the brain and how they wire together, while the China Brain Science Project is focused on developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorBRAIN initiative will start by cataloguing the types of cells in the brain and how they wire together, while the China Brain Science Project is focused on developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorBRAIN initiative will start by cataloguing the types of cells in the brain and how they wire together, while the China Brain Science Project is focused on developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorbrain and how they wire together, while the China Brain Science Project is focused on developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorbrain and how they wire together, while the China Brain Science Project is focused on developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorBrain Science Project is focused on developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorBrain Science Project is focused on developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.

The two groups took skin cells from patients and transformed them into the type of brain cells that are affected by Alzheimer's.

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells, the type of nerve cells located within the retina that transmit visual signals from the eye to the brain.

Other brain researchers had identified certain cell types and areas of the brain associated with fear, reward, addiction, and depression.

Today, a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) led by Professor Partha Mitra describes a new mathematical model that combines large data sets to predict where different types of cells are located within the brain, based on their molecular identity.

We not only introduced the gene into specific brain regions of the mouse, but we could also direct it to specific cell types to test which ones played a role in regulating sociability.»

A signaling pathway is how developing cells get instruction on what types of cell to become, such as a liver cell, a skin cell, a brain cell, etc..

Stem cells, the blank slate from which the body can build any type of cell it needs, are proving themselves capable of doing what was once thought impossible: healing broken brains.

These rare, damage - repairing cells are found in many organs (including the brain), but the cells can transform into only a limited range of cell types.

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

Next, the researchers differentiated the progenitor cells into networks of cortical neurons, the primary functional cell type of the brain's cortex (gray matter).