Sentences with phrase «place cell activity»

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The process takes place by means of a mechanism — unveiled in this study — that inhibits the activity of the osteoblasts, the cells that produce the bone matrix so that bones can grow during childhood and youth, and remain in good condition in adulthood.

Scientists examined the DEJ for T cell activity because this is where the genital herpes virus multiplies after reactivating and traveling from its hiding place in the body's sensory neurons.

The electrical activity inside the place cells synced with the electric field in nearby neurons.

The trouble is that recording activity within neurons is a more delicate process, which gets disrupted by the physical movement necessary to trigger place - cell activity.

Deep brain stimulation is used in Parkinson's disease to trigger brain cell activity and prevent the abnormal signalling that causes debilitating tremors, but placing the electrodes required is highly invasive.

The results also suggest that vitamin C might drive leukemic stem cells without TET2 mutations toward death, says Cimmino, given that it turns up any TET2 activity normally in place.

While the rats ran and then paused after reaching the food, the neurobiologists directly measured the animals» brain cell activity using carefully placed electrodes.

«We can reconstruct the paths of the pair of rats and reliably decode the location of the self or the other from the activity of these joint place cells.»

In the first condition, the rats were allowed to roam freely in their environment — a behavior where the activity of place cells is directly related to the location of the animal in its environment.

The researchers measured the activity of place cells in the brains of rats during three different experimental conditions.

In agreement with predictions from these models, we show that minimal changes in the shape of the environment in which rats are exploring can substantially alter correlated activity patterns among place - modulated granule cells in the dentate gyrus.

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.

In addition, the Honeycomb Maze enables researchers to study the correlation of spatial navigation performance with the activity of place cells in the hippocampus where there is a map of an animal's location in space.

The RNA finds the spot in the nucleus of a cell where some editing activity should take place.

The idea that the activity of a place cell is predictive and can be modified by learning and the behavior of other animals may make it easier to conceptualize an all - encompassing framework that ties together the hippocampus» role in spatial navigation with its well - established role in learning and memory formation.

Our laboratory is particularly interested in studying alternative DNA repair mechanisms, such as the alternative end joining (alt - EJ) pathway, that take place in cancer cells to compensate for the loss of homologous recombination (HR) activity (Figure 2A).

Zhang, K., Ginzburg, I., McNaughton, B.L. & Sejnowski, T.J. Interpreting neuronal population activity by reconstruction: unified framework with application to hippocampal place cells.

The chemical changes taking place in living cells for the release of energy that is required for all the vital processes and activities of the body is known as metabolism.

Supposedly the chemical reduces the activity of PTEN cells, which are defective cells that are often the cause of tumours developing in the first place.