Sentences with phrase «particular types of neurons»

«Two decades of discoveries in the fields of stem cell biology, cortical brain development, and cell transplantation have revealed the potential for particular types of neurons to repair the nervous system, representing a possible breakthrough therapy for patients with devastating neurological diseases,» said Cory Nicholas, Co-Founder, VP of Research at Neurona.

As a matter of fact, E. R. John and his colleagues have been carrying out experiments of this type to test a model of consciousness that links consciousness to the activity of a particular type of neuron.15 It appears that John's model predicts different results than the present model does, and one can think of several feasible experimental designs that would test between the two models.

Researchers had assumed that the SMA gene, essential for the survival of motor neurons, affected only that particular type of neuron.

Not exact matches

Recent insights into learning - oriented brain cells called mirror neurons even hold out the possibility that someday we will have pills that will impart particular types of skills, such as computer programming or business decision making.

For this particular study, the research team created a small library consisting of different fly lines; in each line, a different set of specific neurons was genetically labeled and could be artificially activated, with each neuron type secreting a different neuropeptide.

«If you had a hunch that a certain type of neuron might be important for a particular behavior,» he says, «you could use this technique to see if that's the case — to find out whether activating those neurons elicits the behavior artificially.»

Linda Buck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Richard Axel of Columbia University, both winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, have found that the human nose contains about 1,000 different types of olfactory neurons, each type able to detect a particular set of chemicals.

These midbrain neurons, which are now far more excitable, send a signal to a particular type of dopamine receptor, called D1.

In the present study, the researchers carried out a large - scale analysis of sympathetic nerve cells, from which they were able to demonstrate that there are many different types of sympathetic neurons and that the different types are associated with a particular functions.

They also found that the disruption of the connectivity of these cells during brain development causes alterations in brain oscillatory activity and disturbs the function of place cells, a type of pyramidal neuron that becomes active when an animal is located in a particular place in its environment.

«We were interested in the origins of lamprey gut neurons because in other vertebrates they arise from a particular embryonic cell type, called neural crest cells,» says Stephen Green, postdoctoral scholar in biology and biological engineering and co-first author on the paper.

In research published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, University at Buffalo scientists and colleagues focused on a particular protein, called a transcription factor, that regulates gene activity necessary for the development of one type of retinal neuron, the horizontal cells.

Goulding's lab studies the immediate and downstream effects of neuronal cell loss, such as ongoing changes to spared neurons or to other cell types that make up the circuit, and determines how they adapt to the loss of a particular neuronal cell type.

Independently, Klas Kullander's research group had discovered that this particular gene, DMRT3, is expressed in a previously unknown type of neurons in the spinal cord of mice.

Another consideration when developing drugs is that the particular brain cells we'd like to rescue in HD - neurons - are very different from other types of cells.