Sentences with phrase «rat neurons»

Thousands of rat neurons collectively take control of this robotic arm — but so far their art skills are very crude.

Then they added the engineered virus to a culture of rat neurons in a petri dish.

In one study, published today in PLoS ONE, the researchers grew rat neurons in a culture dish and then attached them to a sheet of stretchy polymer.

Each Animat's «brain» consists of cultured rat neurons growing on a plate of electrodes.

Writing in the August 7 early online edition of Neuron, lead scientist Paul Lu, PhD, of the UC San Diego Department of Neurosciences and colleagues said the human iPSC - derived axons extended through the white matter of the injury sites, frequently penetrating adjacent gray matter to form synapses with rat neurons.

Frankenrobot A robot, created at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, that had a «brain» made of rat neurons placed on a multielectrode array.

This is because rat neurons are much more efficient at pumping ions into the cell than squid neurons, say the team, resulting in squid using up more energy to generate a charge and transmit the signal.

That paper, published in PLoS ONE by Junko Kimura - Kuroda of the Toyko Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, and colleagues, found that both acetamiprid and imidacloprid triggered similar effects in cultures of rat neurons as are seen with nicotine.

Only when they manipulated the toxin to better target mouse and rat neurons did it become potent, shutting down nerve function and causing paralysis.

The axons traversed wound tissues to penetrate and connect with existing rat neurons.

Similarly, rat neurons extended axons into the grafted material and cells.

Smith builds miniature brains by growing live rat neurons on a stretchable membrane attached to a custom - built metal plate.

Steve M. Potter, a biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech and at the Emory University School of Medicine, is giving rat neurons a chance to draw pictures.

In 1994, as a postdoctoral researcher then at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, he became the first scientist to «patch» two living neurons simultaneously — to apply microscopic pipettes to freshly harvested rat neurons to measure the electrical signals fired between them.

In 1996, Naldini et al. transduced rat neurons in vivo with beta - gal and other reporters, and they showed that expression persisted for at least thirty days.

So, the Farese and Gitler laboratories compared these findings to those from rat neurons analyzed Dr. Finkbeiner's lab.

These cells also survived longer than rat neurons placed in a bath lacking the umbilical cord tissue - derived cells.

David Kaplan and his team built their model by constructing a collagen gel - filled protein ring that cultures rat neurons.

Using filters and centrifuges, his team isolated the synaptic portions of dendrites — the short, receiving ends of nerve cells — from thousands of rat neurons.

Bandyopadhyay inserted the needle into a rat neuron to view the microtubule.

Two neonicotinoids, a class of insecticide linked to bee declines and to disruptions to rat neurons, «may affect the developing human nervous system,» the safety agency states

Here, a rat neuron from the movement - coordinating cerebellum was dyed green and caught in the act of communicating with another neuron (shown in red).

In 2006 it was revealed that a team of scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel had created a brain chip out of rat neurons.

But in this case the aircraft is piloted by 25,000 rat neurons in a tiny dish, hooked to an electrode array hardly bigger than the head of a pin.

To model Gulf War Illness, the researchers treated cultures of human and rat neurons with an organophosphate called diisopropyl flurophosphate, which is an analog of sarin.

Potter and his graduate student Doug Bakkum, along with bioartist Guy Ben - Ary and his team at the University of Western Australia, grow their rat neurons over an array of 60 electrodes.

In the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists used both rat neurons and human neurons created from induced pluripotent stem cells.

Catecholaminergic neurons containing GABA - like and / or glutamic acid decarboxylase - like immunoreactivities in various brain regions of the rat

In a screen of nearly 200,000 compounds, Tardiff and collaborators identified one chemical entity that not only reversed alpha - synuclein toxicity in yeast cells, but also partially rescued neurons in the model nematode C. elegans and in rat neurons.

Gender and puberty interact on the stress - induced activation of parvocellular neurosecretory neurons and corticotropin - releasing hormone messenger ribonucleic acid expression in the rat