Sentences with phrase «of nearby cell»

At each new location, they activate the stingray and capture the cell phone data for all of the nearby cell phones.

This approach captures the data of all nearby cell phones, including countless cell phones of individuals unrelated to the criminal investigation.

Maria Braga, DDS, PhD, and colleagues at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, found that activating ASIC1a decreased the activity of nearby cells and reduced anxiety - like behavior in animals.

In the paper, the authors use several animal models to show that the progenitor cells could contribute to the formation of new lymph ducts, both by becoming part of the lymph ducts and by stimulating the growth of nearby cells.

We calculated the activity profiles in Fig. 9B from the raw data in Fig. 9A by averaging the spike - density functions of nearby cells according to a Gaussian weighting function (width σ = 0.25 mm) and sorting them according to their location in the motor map (Methods).

Upon insult to the intestine, zonulin is released from epithelial cells, where it can act locally on receptors on the apical (lumen - facing) membrane of nearby cells.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, location - aware cell phones will soon offer traveling employees a variety of services, ranging from finding a nearby restaurant complete with turn - by - turn directions to telling him or her the location of nearby colleagues and customers.

The driver said it was a foggy morning and he ran off the road into a pole, then knocked on the door of a nearby residence because he'd left his cell phone at home.

They found that even the briefest of pulses in the nanosecond to femtosecond range produced a microscopic explosion called a cavitation bubble powerful enough to damage nearby cells.

The exceptional cancer cells that escape the astrocytes do so by producing a protein called Serpin, which acts as a sort of antidote to the death signals fired at them by nearby astrocytes.

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a signaling pathway in cancer cells that controls their ability to invade nearby tissues in a finely orchestrated manner.

As prostate cancer progresses, tumor cells may infiltrate this periprostatic adipose tissue: this is a key step in the progression of this cancer, as it signals locally advanced disease (where the cancer can progress to nearby organs).

However, in the past decade scientists realized that exosomes play important roles in many biological functions through capsuling and delivering molecular messages in the form of nucleic acids and proteins from the donor cells to affect the functions of nearby or distant cells.

They were the amplified sounds of brain cells firing, picked up by the electrode and piped through a nearby speaker.

His trick was to insert the gene coding for CREB into a version of the herpesvirus that can infect neurons without spreading to nearby cells.

As the wound heals, the gel breaks down into amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — that can be taken up by nearby cells and used for tissue repair, according to MIT neuroscientist Rutledge Ellis - Behnke.

In fact, there's reason to believe that all of the properties of cell biology that made complex life possible in the next geologic era were put in place here: cytoskeletons that allow eukaryotic cells to change shape, and cell polarity that allows cells to send a molecular message to one side of the cell but not the other, and to interact with nearby cells.

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

Arising from the Schwann cells of the vestibular (balance) nerve, these tumors can grow to the point of damaging nearby structures — and can lead to death by compressing the brainstem.

«Pancreatic cancer cells are deadly because they program nearby immune cells to permit the tumors to survive and grow,» says study author George Miller, MD, head of the Cancer Immunology Program at Perlmutter and vice chair for research in the Department of Surgery at NYU Langone.

«Because many broadly expressed genes that play key roles in essential cellular functions are under the control of cell - specific enhancers, the ability to affect enhancer function by knocking down eRNAs could potentially provide a new strategy for altering gene expression in vivo in a cell - specific manner,» said Glass, noting that in his research, anti-sense oligonucleotides were developed in conjunction with Isis Pharmaceuticals, which suppressed enhancer activity and reduced expression in nearby genes.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT), involves the use of chemicals called photosensitizers that are activated by exposure to specific wavelengths of light to release reactive molecules that can damage nearby cells.

And because of their speed and randomness, it is very difficult to study their effects on nearby cells.

Its depletion of nucleotides leaves HIV capable of making just a few incomplete pieces of DNA that cause great harm to their host by stimulating an inflammatory response, causing nearby CD4 + T cells to commit suicide.

Then the blast of radiation emitted by the radioisotope would destroy the... tumor cells nearby.»

These are the same T cell genes inhibited by digoxin, and since replication of integrated HIV - 1 requires transcription of nearby genes, this provides an explanation for why wild type HIV - 1 is more susceptible to digoxin: digoxin represses the genes that the virus more frequently targets for integration.

Mitchell and her colleagues eliminated this possibility when they deleted these nearby regions in the genome of mice and found there was no impact on the gene's ability to be turned on in embryonic stem cells.

They are in constant conversation with nearby cells, exchanging molecular bits of information that tell the cell how to function, much the same way the information that comes in through our eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin tells us how to function.

Frequently, a virus will infect an epithelial cell, which compared with a nerve cells are «real virus factories,» says Schiffer: They produce massive amounts of virus that can infect other nearby epithelial cells and can presumably also infect sexual partners.

These cells are now thought to serve as the immune system's principal sentinels in the skin — when they detect damage signals from nearby wounded skin cells, they summon other, non-skin-resident immune cells to the site of the wound.

If you are at a noisy cocktail party and suddenly hear someone nearby talking about you, your ability to eavesdrop on that conversation and ignore all the others around you could result from the synchronous firing of cells.

A previously unknown cell type in the brain's cortex encodes geometric boundaries of the nearby environment, perhaps providing a frame of reference.

That light is absorbed by the chlorine - based molecules, which then excite nearby oxygen molecules, creating a highly reactive form of oxygen, known as singlet oxygen, that rips apart nearby biomolecules and kills the tumor cell.

Considerable previous research in cell cultures has demonstrated that low doses of ionizing radiation results in «bystander» effects, in which nearby, unexposed tissues suffer cell death, mutations, and tumor - inducing growth (ScienceNOW, 7 September 2005).

Using ion beams allows medical professionals to calculate exactly where ions need to stop; with precise aiming, they can kill only the tumor cells and spare the vast majority of nearby healthy cells.

While past attempts to treat melanoma failed to meet expectations, an international team of researchers are hopeful that a compound they tested on both mice and on human cells in a petri dish takes a positive step toward creating a drug that can kill melanoma cancer cells without harming nearby healthy cells.

It is possible that this group of revivable T cells may be found in contact with the tumor, or perhaps more likely, in lymph nodes nearby, Ahmed says.

«A growing body of evidence suggests that exosomes can facilitate crosstalk between cancer cells and other types of cells that are nearby in the microenvironment that surrounds the tumor,» said Hongyun Zhao, the first author of the eLife study.

Tumors with high levels of E-cadherin tend to be tightly tethered to nearby cells and less likely to break free and travel to other sites.

The result is a fly tumor: cells that proliferate, invade nearby tissues, and even metastasize to other parts of the body.

Calretinin - expressing (likely bipolar) cells were also observed extending processes toward the peduncles of nearby layered photoreceptors (Figure 7C).

When the internal structure of the cancer cell collapses their anchoring with the nearby cells is loosened.

Stem cell researcher Robert Lanza hopes to save thousands of lives — and for a long time this caused him to fear for his own... At the time, a doctor was threatened at a nearby fertility clinic, and a pipe bomb exploded at a bio lab in Boston.

This paradigm of harnessing cells in nearby areas of damage to replenish lost tissue is not just applicable to the heart; it may be useful in many other organs in the body that have support cells like fibroblasts.

The videos confirmed the unorthodox new mode of division Obernier's labeling experiments had implied, but also revealed the cells» surprising dynamism: a long tail that touches and probes nearby blood vessels, short arms that poke and prod other stem cells, and a tongue - like antenna that pokes into the nearby ventricular space, as if to «taste» the cerebrospinal fluid there.

In the new research, when a spheroid of induced pacemaker cells was surrounded by a layer of cardiac muscle cells, the IPM cells were able to drive the previously quiescent nearby cells at around 145 beats per minute.

By immunofluorescence microscopy, Thy1 - PE - labeled CD3ε + cells were observed in the SCS and in nearby lymphatic sinuses, and few labeled cells were detected within the LN parenchyma, confirming that footpad injection of PE - conjugated antibody led to preferential labeling of lymph - exposed LN cells (Figure 3E).

One recent study from the University of Essex even shows that just having a cell phone nearby during personal conversations — even if neither of you are using it — can cause friction and trust issues.

Specifically, 75 % of college students who walked across a campus square while talking on their cell phones did not notice a clown riding a unicycle nearby.

When getting nearby the «destination» (muscle) «postmen get out of the van» (neuron splits into few branches) and reach each «house» individually (individual muscle cells, fibers).