Sentences with phrase «role of hair cells»

Studies of deafness often emphasize the role of hair cells, the sensory cells that transmit sound signals to the brain.

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The beta - carotene in pumpkin can help reverse UV damage and improve skin texture, and the abundant minerals in the orange fruit, including potassium, copper, manganese, zinc, iron and magnesium all play a role in the health and wellbeing of skin and hair, from collagen maintenance and cell membrane protection to healthy hair regrowth and skin cell regrowth.

The current study identified a new role for a particular group of proteins, known as RFX transcription factors, in the development and survival of the hair cells.

«Scientists identify proteins crucial to loss of hearing: Proteins play key role in genes that help auditory hair cells grow.»

Moreover, the scientists have found that these stem cells depend upon a family of proteins known as the «Wnt signaling network» — the same proteins that play a crucial role in hair and tissue regeneration — to regenerate bone in the fingertip.

The full readout of what genes are on and off in dermal papilla cells has never been collected before, so researchers now have a new list of thousands of genes to study further that may play key roles in hair follicle development.

«New hair growth mechanism discovered: Faulty immune cells may play role in alopecia, other forms of baldness.»

The new study — published online May 26 in Cell — suggests that defects in Tregs could be responsible for alopecia areata, a common autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss, and could potentially play a role in other forms of baldness, including male pattern baldness, Rosenblum said.

After infection with CMV, these mice developed profound hearing loss and lost a significant amount of outer hair cells, which are found in the ear and play an important role in hearing.

Similarly, another group had reported excessive hair growth in mice with genetically augmented TERT activity under an unphysiologic promoter, (5) suggesting a possible role of TERT in follicular (and possibly stem) cell growth.

Their primary role is to ensure the life of the cells in the human body through various processes: regulation of blood sugar, optimization of muscular contraction, skin and hair health, participation in enzymatic reactions, etc..

Zinc plays an important role in the production of new cells (including hair cells) and the maintenance of oil secreting glands (that make hair shiny).

It also plays an important role in healthy hair, skin and cell function and is the source of essential fatty acids, another extremely important part of our diet.

And because the same pigment also plays a vital role in the development of delicate hair cells in their ears, white Boxer dogs are more likely to be deaf.

Growth diets also provide optimal amounts of calcium, phosphorus, copper, and essential fatty acids, «which have an important role in bone formation and maturation, cartilage maturation, hair color, red blood cell development, and trainability.»

All of the functions of these cells are not known, but one role is to maintain high potassium concentrations in the fluid (endolymph) surrounding the hair cells of the cochlea; these pigment cells are critical for survival of the stria and the stria is critical for survival of the hair cells.

Researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvaniahave determined the role of a key growth factor, found in skin cells of limited quantities in humans, which helps hair follicles form and regenerate during the wound healing process.