Sentences with phrase «of cells in the brain»

Over time, specific populations of cells in the brain become dysfunctional or die.

Only 10 percent of the cells in the brain are neurons, he says.

The method can help researchers learn more about the shape, organization and function of cells in the brain and elsewhere.

Other proteins allow researchers to measure electrical or biochemical activity, while yet others can activate or inhibit specific kinds of cells in the brain in real time.

There is something marvelous in the fact that we barely understand what most of the cells in our brains are doing.

Scientists have identified an additional group of cells in the brain responsible for keeping us awake: the supramammillary nucleus, part of the caudal hypothalamus.

Using this technique, scientists could classify the thousands of different types of cells in the brain, map how they connect to each other, and figure out how diseased cells differ from normal cells.

Two additional variants in the putamen are associated with genes that can cause colon or immune system cancers and seem to regulate the number of cells in that brain region.

Maybe one day someone may construct an exact copy of the millions of cells in the brain with billions of connections with microchips and whatever, then set electronic currents flowing.

By virtue of a complicated arrangement of cells in the brain, there is at the human level emergent a mental state marked by what I have styled awareness.

Glial cells, which make up about half of the cells in the brain, have many supporting roles, including cushioning neurons and helping them form connections with one another.

«Loss of cells in brain's memory center linked to schizophrenia: Deterioration of tiny brain region offers clues to onset of psychiatric disorder.»

The challenge is to make a reliable, long - term connection between the hardware and the wetware — one that is unaffected by corrosion, scar tissue, or the shifting and dying of cells in the brain.

The effort, as yet confined to animal studies, is only about a decade old but has become one of the hottest areas of neuroscience research because it promises a more precise understanding of the hugely complex network of cells in the brain.

Astrocytes vastly outnumber signal - conducting neurons, and make up the majority of cells in the brain.

Iacoboni is best known for his work studying mirror neurons, a small circuit of cells in the brain that may be an important element of social cognition.

We do know that a small group of cells in the brain stem, called the subcoeruleus nucleus, controls REM sleep.

Trying to mimic randomly occurring mutations that cause glioblastoma, Inder Verma and his team successfully used modified viruses to shuttle cancer - causing oncogenes into a handful of cells in the brains of adult mice.

Whether or not GBP1 and GBP2 directly act on the insulin - producing cells or signal to a second set of cells in the brain to regulate insulin secretion is unclear.

There are populations of cells that divide in the mature brain, and the knowledge we gain from the in vitro studies could help influence how one might be able to manipulate and use that newly generated population of cells in the brain in more therapeutic ways.

Determining the location of every cell in the brain and how they communicate with each other is a daunting task, as each cell makes thousands of connections.

It has been proved that the use of the fasting - mimicking diet for five days stimulates rejuvenation of the cells in the brain, along with an increase in what is called brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-- a substance that leads to improvements in mood and cognition.

Exposure to bright daylight serves as the major synchronizer of your master clock — a group of cells in your brain called the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN).

A recent study suggests this syndrome results from the way HIV injures astrocytes, the most common type of cell in the brain.

Holdcroft believes that the changes in the brain are more likely to be the result of changes in the volume of individual cells, rather than changes in the number of cells in the brain.

«We have millions and millions of cells in the brain.

LINE - 1 variations affect 44 to 63 percent of cells in the brain, the researchers estimated.

Acetyl L - Carnitine HCI - Research suggests that acetylcholine may improve the functioning of the cells in your brain.

A key step in disentangling this vast network is to find ways to access each of the thousands of different kinds of cells in the brain.

In the current paper, Pedersen and his colleagues used genetic engineering techniques to selectively activate particular groups of cells in the brain.

«We have identified two new populations of cells in the brain that potently regulate appetite,» says Alexander Nectow, first author of the paper, published in Cell on July 27.

The new findings prove that a group of cells in the brain can turn a short - lived sensation into complex, long - lasting muscle movements, says physiologist Simon Alford of Northwestern University.

Researchers from UC Davis School of Medicine and Shriners Hospitals for Children — Northern California have identified a group of cells in the brain that they say plays an important role in the abnormal neuron development in Down syndrome.

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 disorders.

«In particular, we wanted to understand the ability of a specific type of cell in the brain, termed interneurons, to modulate brain network activity to maintain a balance in brain signalling.»

The tree - like neocortex neurons are only one of many types of cells in the brain.

When you get the flu, it's glial cells — which make up 85 % of the cells in the brain — that release pro-inflammatory cytokines to fight the virus.

«This research used genetic methods to allow mice to produce a light - sensitive protein in very select group of cells in the brain.»

Low levels of GFP expression were also observed in a number of cells in the brain and the ventral nerve cord (VNC)(Fig 2F and 2G), in which no CCHa2 - R expression was detected by FISH, probably due to its lower sensitivity.