Sentences with phrase «rhythmic behavior»

Amita Sehgal, PhD, a professor of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, describes in Cell a circuit in the brain of fruit flies that controls their daily, rhythmic behavior of rest and activity.

They found that cells in the pars intercerebralis (PI) are essential for rhythmic behavior, and PI cells are connected to the clock cells through a circuit of at least two synapses.

In a rhythmic light - dark environment, gene expression analysis revealed that both groups displayed rhythmic behavior, glucocorticoid hormone rhythms and clock gene expression rhythms in peripheral tissues such as liver or adrenal.

miR - 124 regulates diverse aspects of rhythmic behavior in Drosophila.

An electrocardiograph heart scan carried out by your veterinarian may reveal unusual rhythmic behavior, as well as any swelling or abnormalities in the heart.

Rhythmic behavior has recently been observed in other animals, including parrots, budgerigars, sea lions, rhesus monkeys, and chimpanzees, although in the majority of these cases animals were explicitly trained to synchronize.

Animals learned to move their eyeballs once every second, a completely internal timing feat made possible by the rhythmic behavior of small groups of nerve cells, researchers propose online October 30 in PLOS Biology.

For example, our studies identified transcription factors, RNA binding proteins, and signaling genes as critical miRNA targets during contexts such as development of peripheral sensory organs, wing, eye, and CNS, or during behavioral contexts such as egg - laying, rhythmic behavior, and locomotor activity (Figure 2).

His laboratory focuses on analyzing glutamate receptor function, neuromuscular development and function, and rhythmic behavior and calcium oscillations.

Cats also may use the rhythmic behavior to calm themselves when they are nervous or stressed.