Sentences with phrase «pairs of neurons with»

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Then the researchers doused dengue - spreading mosquitoes with a chemical that shuts down the mosquitoes» ability to detect CO2 by blocking a receptor called neuron — cpA, a type of sensory cell found on a small pair of antennalike structures near the mouth called the maxillary palps.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

To go further, the pair started combining their electrode recordings of individual neurons with readings from an intracranial EEG, which measures overall electrical activity in a larger area of the brain.

As the firing of pairs of virtual neurons is repeatedly compared with background firing statistics, meaningful relationships between neurons are gradually established and reinforced.

After comparing the brains of males with offspring with brains of childless males in mating pairs, Kozorovitskiy and Gould found that fathers not only had more connections between neurons in their prefrontal cortex, a region involved in anticipating consequences and attaining goals, but they also had more receptors for vasopressin, a neurohormone linked to social interaction and bonding.

If this preferential pairing also worked in the opposite direction (that is, UNC - 9 prefers to pair with UNC - 9 over UNC - 7 channels) this could explain why mis - expression or over-expression of UNC - 9 in AVB (or other neurons) might interfere with UNC - 7S localization to AVB: B motor neuron gap junctions.

The locomotory nervous system consists of several pairs of interneurons and three major classes of motor neurons, all with stereotypical patterns of connectivity that include gap junctions.