Sentences with phrase «on brain cell types»

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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.

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

Different abnormalities such as cleft palates, small skulls, and problems with higher brain function were seen depending on which cell types lacked Smc3 expression, but the phenotypes were similar to those seen in CdLS patients.

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.

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.

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..

Kipnis and his colleagues had previously shown that a type of white blood cell called a T cell (shown above) in the meninges is associated with significant influence on cognition and hence were curious about the role of meningeal immunity on brain function.

To conduct the study, scientists took dental pulp cells from donated baby teeth of three children with diagnoses of non-syndromic autism (part of the on - going «Tooth Fairy Project») and reprogrammed the cells to become either neurons or astrocytes, a type of glia or support cell abundantly found in the brain.

Kozai's lab is currently working with Franca Cambi, professor of neurology at Pitt, on a project to understand the role of another type of glial cell on brain injury and neuronal activity.

«Blame it on the astrocytes: does brain's most abundant cell type have role in neurological disorders?.»

Doing this type of study on cells in brain tissue has been challenging because the cells are densely packed and intimately intertwined.

She found that the brain depends on a type of immune cell known as the T cell, which normally kills infected cells or leads other immune cells in a campaign against foreign invaders.

The cortex is the thin layer of cells on the surface of the brain that governs many functions, and in elephants it contains a greater variety of cell types (such as the extensively branched neuron pictured above) than is found in more frequently studied animals such as rodents and primates.

As a result, they are too broad: They affect more than one type of receptor, on more than one kind of nerve cell, in more than one part of the brain.

«This study focused on the development of the neocortex, but we aim to analyze multiple brain regions and developmental stages to achieve a more comprehensive atlas of cell types in the developing human brain,» Kriegstein said.

The screening revealed coibamide A to be capable of killing many types of cancer cells, but Ishmael decided to focus subsequent studies on two types in particular — brain tumors, or glioblastomas, and a breast cancer subtype known as triple negative breast cancer.

Because stem cells have the ability to develop into many different cell types in the body, researchers at USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery & Brain Repair have focused on using stem cells to restore function lost through neurodegenerative disorders or injuries.

Previous studies have shown that a special type of cortical interneurons, called basket cells, exerts a strongly inhibitory effect on brain circuits.

They homed in on astrocytes, a type of brain cell that clears the signaling molecule glutamate out of the way after it has performed its job of delivering a message across a synapse between two nerve cells.

«Cell - type — based model explaining coexpression patterns of genes in the brain» appears online in PNAS on March 24, 2014.

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.

Selected antibodies are applied to test - sections containing brain regions or cell types with known expression based on in situ hybridization (Allen Brain Atlas) and single cell RNAseq data (Linnarsson Lab and Barres brain regions or cell types with known expression based on in situ hybridization (Allen Brain Atlas) and single cell RNAseq data (Linnarsson Lab and Barres Brain Atlas) and single cell RNAseq data (Linnarsson Lab and Barres Lab).

Stem cells are cells found primarily in embryos, and they have not yet taken on the characteristics of any particular type of cell, such as bone, muscle tissue or brain matter.

The result was a highly selective drug they named SBI - 0206965, which successfully killed a number of cancer cell types, including human and mouse lung cancer cells and human brain cancer cells, some of which were previously shown to be particularly reliant on cellular recycling.

Our initial studies were on characterization of different adult neural stem cell types from murine and human brain and human bone marrow.

For every cell type you have in your body — liver cells, skin cells, brain cells, muscle cells, kidney cells, and on and on — that type of cancer can develop.

I can assure you that so far as my own experiences have shown me, and some of my instrumentation has been part of everything from measuring re-entry temperatures on the Space Shuttle to research studying the effects of small temperature changes on types of brain cells, that I've rarely found anything that made me question the theories I was taught.

Researchers have found that certain types of specializations on nerve cells called «spines» are depleted as a person ages, causing cognitive decline in the part of the brain that mediates the highest levels of learning.