Sentences with phrase «subset of neurons»

By interfering with the dNPF receptors on different subsets of neurons, the authors identified one group of neurons that was important for dNPF's effect.

That is, ghostly blue light that illuminates the catacombs of the brain and causes a tiny subset of neurons with a known identity to produce electrical spikes wakes up the animal.

Here, we show that BACE2 is expressed in discrete subsets of neurons and glia throughout the adult mouse brain.

She and her colleagues have been using computers to automatically track the behavior of male and female fruit flies in a bowl as different subsets of their neurons are activated.

Deisseroth's group exploited this capability by introducing ChR2 into a subset of neurons located in the lateral hypothalamus, deep inside the mouse brain.

A mouse brain's motor cortex shows a subset of neurons, labeled in orange, that have long axons extending to the auditory cortex.

Then, Saper and colleagues focused on a subset of neurons — called PBelCGRP cells - known to show activity in response to elevated CO2 levels.

A subset of neurons within the VMH, termed the ventrolateral region of the VMH (VMHvl), became active following male - male encounters that ended up in fights.

«We are looking at a different subset of neurons that were previously unknown,» Chen says.

A subset of neurons will fire — that is, send electrical signals that convey information — when a person focuses their attention on the upper half of a scene, whereas a different subgroup activates when attention is transferred to the lower half.

In their paper, published online today in Neuron, the researchers demonstrated that a subset of neurons starts to prepare the body for an influx of water in the seconds before drinking begins.

Then, by shining a light onto the brain through a fiber optic cable connected to the mouse's skull, they could reactivate only that subset of neurons.

Researchers at OIST have successfully isolated and recorded the activity of a subset of neurons in the striatum in the brain, shedding light on one mechanism underlying learning and decision making in animals.

Together these studies suggest that Punc - 7S drives expression of UNC - 7S in a subset of neurons (including AVA and AVB, but not motor neurons) that can effect rescue of forward locomotion, and promoter sequences upstream of exon 2 drive additional expression of UNC - 7S in motor neurons or possibly other neurons required to fully rescue all unc - 7 locomotory defects.

Conclusions: A subset of neurons in the mediobasal hypothalamus rapidly respond to physiological changes in extracellular leucine concentration.