Sentences with phrase «of signaling chemicals»

Essentially every process in our bodies is governed by a complex network of signaling chemicals.

However, some of the signaling chemicals bacteria make can work primarily in their host (which may even be a human).

When they looked at brains from these mice, the researchers noticed that hippocampal nerves that were between 1 and 2 months old could dramatically increase or decrease the amount of signaling chemicals they receive from neighboring nerves.

We may owe some of our unique intelligence to a generous supply of a signalling chemical called dopamine in brain regions that help us think and plan.

The group also was able to add a tiny amount of signaling chemical, glutamate, at the single spine in order to mimic what happens during learning.

Not exact matches

The chemical tells individual neurons to fire off a signal or not, influencing other brain signals and pathways, and essentially serves as a traffic cop of motivation, emotion, and social behavior.

Love is an emotion, a mix of hormones, chemicals, and electrical signals in the brain and body.

However, I do not believe that it could not possibly survive the death of the body because it is embodied in the unique patterns of electrical and chemical signals in the brain.

These layers may be visible, related to the nature of the ice; or they may be chemical, related to differential transport in different seasons; or they may be isotopic, reflecting the annual temperature signal (for example, snow from colder periods has less of the heavier isotopes of H and O).

The human body has about 1,000 kinds of such receptors, structures on the surface of cells, which let the body respond to a wide variety of chemical signals, like adrenaline.

Vitamin B6 is a vital nutrient that helps with the production of several neurotransmitters; chemicals that carry signals from one nerve cell to another.

Prostaglandins are little chemical messengers (I think of them like text messages) that signal an anti-inflammatory response in the body.

Chemical Pregnancy / Early Miscarriage: When you fall pregnant your body makes progesterone and hCG, two hormones that signal the rest of the body that pregnancy is happening.

That initial swoon over a new baby is more than just love; it's a series of chemicals signaling the brain to care for this helpless infant, and ultimately can help explain the survival of our species.

Puffing didn't induce varicosities along the lengths of dendrites, the parts of neurons that receive chemical signals from neighboring nerve cells.

Based on this Varendi et al (1994) stated that unnecessary routine cleaning of the breast may interfere with the establishment of successful early breastfeeding by elimination of the infant's access to biologically relevant chemical signals.

TENS encourages the release of endorphins (the body's own natural pain killing chemicals) whilst also blocking the pain signals from getting to the brain.So what's the de...

Blood samples from infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) had high levels of serotonin, a chemical that carries signals along and between nerves, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health.

One of the most prominent was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who on Friday tweeted out his support for Trump's strike, writing, «This was a clear signal from America that Bashar al Assad can no longer use chemical weapons against his own people with impunity.»

Both methods resulted in the creation of novel functional elements that respond to a combination of one chemical and one physical signal, in this instance temperature.

Mitochondria, specialized organelles found in nearly every cell of the body, use cellular respiration to generate one of the most important sources of chemical energy — adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a versatile nucleotide that powers everything from cell division to cell signaling to transportation of large molecules across the cell membrane.

When the team applied the technique to a sample of the organic molecule PTCDA, not only did the molecules show up in intricate detail, an electrical signal was also detected between them (coloured green below), at exactly the locations where hydrogen bonds are present (Journal of the American Chemical Society, DOI: 10.1021 / ja104332t).

For some years now, a new class of drugs called antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) have been used, which work in two ways: they consist of an antibody that binds selectively to the tumor cell receptor and interrupts the signal to propagate; they also act as a transport vehicle for a chemical substance that enters the cancer cells with the antibody and triggers their death.

Perhaps the beetles excreted some kind of chemical signal that combined with the tree's tissues to form an irresistible scent for other beetles.

This chemical signal sets off the chain reaction of physical changes that ultimately transform children into sexually mature adults.

The thinking that happens inside your brain can be traced to chemical signals passing between neurons, and those chemicals move the way they do because of electromagnetism.

The new microbiota may trigger weight loss, says gastroenterologist Lee Kaplan of Massachusetts General Hospital, by sending chemical signals that cause the human host to burn more calories, which helps use up the body's fat reserves.

Based on their results and evidence from other studies on addiction and the hippocampus, the authors suggest an intriguing explanation for addiction: newborn neurons in the hippocampus inhibit the release of dopamine, one of the major chemical messengers that act as a reward signal.

Was there a chemical or genetic signal that induced stem cells to create the complex structures of the body and brain?

The scientists observed that transmission of chemical signals between the nerve cells are facilitated by AMPA - receptors and the activity occurs on the brain cell surface.

But healthy lobsters were one fourth as likely to share dens with infected lobsters than with healthy ones — even before the sickies became contagious — probably because of chemical signals.

The group is now pursuing studies that couple the mechanical forces of a blast, or pressure wave, to the activation of chemical - signaling pathways in neural cells.

These thin, tubelike structures transmit electrical and chemical signals that are vital for carrying information among different regions of the brain.

In the first study of its kind, Rice University scientists have used synthetic biology to study how a popular soil amendment called «biochar» can interfere with the chemical signals that some microbes use to communicate.

King hypothesizes that proteins that the single - celled ancestors of animals used to interact with the extracellular environment — to capture bacterial prey by binding to their cell surface and to detect chemical signals — were later repurposed to enable cells to stick to and talk to each other.

Recent research has shown that the cascade of signals in the proinflammatory immune response tend to cause the amino acid tryptophan to break down into kynurenic acid rather than serotonin, a brain chemical that influences mood.

To discover this, Hui Liu, Gene Robinson, and Eric Jakobsson of the University of Illinois developed new computational tools to analyze patterns of gene conservation across a wide range of animals, for genes activated and inhibited in the honey bee brain by exposure to a chemical communication signal that triggers alarm.

By analyzing chemical changes of the IRS - 2 protein in immortalized cultures of human white blood cells, it determined that IRS - 2 appeared in two different forms — «on,» which allows the signal to pass through, and «off,» which stops the signal from activating the cells into M2 macrophages.

However, in people with asthma, the M2 cells and the chemical signals they emit linger and call in other cells that cause inflammation that can trigger an asthma attack with the classic symptoms of difficulty breathing, wheezing and shortness of breath.

Radio signals won't travel through a liquid, and chemical forms of communication work only across large or microscopic distances.

A study published in the journal PLOS ONE reports that the synthetic molecule JK - 31 blocks the signalling of a «growth factor» chemical that promotes the creation of networks of blood vessels to feed tumors.

In the hippocampus and the amygdala, areas of the brain thought to be associated with episodic memory, researchers had shown that the chemical signaling agent called glutamate acts like a key in the lock of some of these protein «flood gates.»

Both use an array of chemical messengers to transmit signals throughout a cellular web.

The team discovered that the activation of these CRH neurons causes the release of a chemical signal, an «alarm pheromone», from the mouse that alerts the partner.

Parkinson's disease is caused by the death of neurons in the brain that produce dopamine, a chemical that shuttles signals between neurons and is responsible for controlling the body's movement.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is caused by immune cells that activate a cascade of chemicals in the brain, attacking and degrading the insulation that keeps neuronal signals moving.

Chemical signals dominate the insect world, says Berenbaum, and this research shows that «new things can be discovered about even the most dirt common of insect pests.»

The social parasitic Maculinea butterfly uses chemical and acoustic adaptations to trick ant signaling defenses, and manages to spend most of its life cycle inside the ant nest.

The signal - sending neuron pumps chemicals into the space, and the signal - receiving neuron takes up some of them, triggering a new electric pulse.

Similarly, the signals trigger an increase in toxic chemicals such as nitric oxide, quinolonic acid, and kynurenic acid, which are bad for the functioning of nerve cells.