Sentences with phrase «single type of neuron»

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It was thought that different layers of neurons are generated in successive waves by a single type of stem cell.

At the cellular level, although they share canonical types of inhibitory interneurons (INs) and excitatory principal neurons (PNs), it remains largely unknown to what extent a single type in different brain regions displays similarity in gene expression, axonal shape, connectivity, and developmental origins.

Multipotency or multidifferentiative potential - the ability to generate progeny of several distinct cell types, for example both glial cells and neurons, opposed to unipotency - restriction to a single - cell type.

2) The US BRAIN Initiative, announced in 2013, aims to map the activity of every single neuron type or area in the human brain.

«If we can pinpoint which genes control the development of each neuron type, we can generate them in the petri dish from a single sample of human skin cells,» said Dr. Huang.

This feedback circuit is composed of a single class of reward - signaling dopamine neurons (PAM - α1) projecting to a restricted region of the mushroom body (MB), and a specific MB output cell type, MBON - α1, whose dendrites arborize that same MB compartment.