Sentences with phrase «on brain cells»

Giving the animals an anti-inflammatory drug when the bully mouse was put into their cage reduced the anxiety and memory problems, but had no effect on brain cell production.

Oxidative stress on brain cells likely plays a role, too.

Some Gooners are short on brain cells.

«Intensive energy demands on brain cells leads to accumulation of highly reactive oxygen species, such as free radicals and hydrogen peroxide,» according to the study's lead investigator, Dr. Fei Du, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

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.

Whenever we have tried to interface our technology with biology, whether to eavesdrop on brain cells or use their output to drive a wheelchair, it has been with standard electronics, which are based on negatively charged electrons.

Giving the mice an anti-inflammatory drug reduced the anxiety and memory problems but had no effect on brain cell production (Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523 / jneurosci.2394 - 15.2016).

But when the researchers gave newborn rats a drug that mimics the effect of endocannabinoids on brain cells, the rate of cell division in females slowed to the same pace observed in male brains.

Mice with defective LCN2 docking stations on their brain cells, however, overate and gained weight just like mice that couldn't make the hormone in the first place.

So far, research has not shown that blueberries and strawberries diminish the effect of heavy ions on brain cells, Vazquez says.

Imagine a cosmic ray as «a bullet flying around with speed and mass,» says Marcelo Vazquez, a researcher at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York who studies the effect of radiation on brain cells and tissue.

Ames has explored the impact of zinc and iron on brain cells.

Grima is currently working on answering this question using a new mouse model developed at Johns Hopkins that will allow him to isolate these nuclear pore proteins from different cell types in the mouse brain to identify whether these nuclear pore components are in fact different based on brain cell types and brain locations.

Barres, who has spent three decades focusing on brain cells that aren't nerve cells, called the findings «the most important discovery my lab has ever made.»

Ben - Jacob points out that previous attempts to develop memories on brain cell cultures (neurons along with their supporting and insulating glial cells) have often involved stimulating the synapses (nerve cell connections).

They found that the TLR3 inhibitor significantly tempered Zika virus» severe effects on brain cell health and organoid size, underscoring TLR3's role linking infection and brain damage.

The new findings were made using position emission tomography, or PET, scanning, and a substance that attaches to the receptors on brain cells that mu - opioid molecules bind to.

In a report on the mouse studies, published online Sept. 11 in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), the investigators say the genetic alteration appears to release the biochemical «brakes» on brain cells involved in body movement, reasoning and perception of the world, triggering over-excited activity and reactions.

Hot on the heels of last weeks report of the successful use of gene therapy to treat the eye disease Leber's congenital amaurosis comes a report that scientists lead by Nathalie Cartier and Patrick Aubourg of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research have combined gene therapy and stem cell medicine to successfully... Continue reading Gene therapy on the brain

Scientists studied postmortem brains of people who had died by suicide with and without being abused as children and a control group who had no history of suicide or abuse, and found that the fatty sheath on brain cells was significantly thinner in those abused than the other two groups.

Walnuts also contain polyphenolic compounds such as pedunculagin which can reduce the inflammatory load on brain cells, enhance neural connections, and increase neurogenesis (new neuron creation in the brain).

It is also known to prevent the accumulation of beta - amyloid plaques on brain cells.

General studies on the affects of antioxidants on brain cells have revealed that people who eat diets rich in antioxidants can enjoy increased protection from free radical damage than those who don't eat a diet high in powerful antioxidants.

An earthquake wipes out a fat chunk of California in San Andreas, but that's nothing compared to the destruction rained down on your brain cells by this movie's idiotically hilarious dialogue.

The automated method could also be used to easily test the effects on brain cells of a range of molecules and see which might be drug candidates.

Ashwaganda — This herb helps to correct cortisol levels by either boosting energy by day or calming the individual at night, and also stabilizing blood sugar, improving memory and reducing the effects on stress on brain cells (Pratte et al., 2014).

On average, the telomeres on the white blood cells were 17 times shorter than those on brain cells, which hardly replicate at all throughout life.

Scientists have homed in on the brain cells that give birds their astonishing ability to navigate

Fang's team decided to test xanthohumol's effects on brain cells.

Acetylcholine is a major transmitter of signals in the brain, and there are several varieties of receptors, or receiver dishes for the signals, on brain cells.

Hyperactivity in children is in part due to consuming MSG and other food additives and their excitatory effect on brain cells.