Sentences with phrase «than rat neurons»

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

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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.

In a 2014 study in rats, researchers at the University of California found that the neurons in a brain region associated with spatial learning behaved completely differently in virtual environments compared to in real ones, with more than half of the neurons shutting down while in VR.

Scientists have known for years that the neurons in adult rats, which are significant but fewer in numbers than during puberty, could be saved with learning, but they did not know if this would be the case for young rats that produce two to four times more neurons than adult animals.

The number of mature neurons (NeuN +) was at their highest in the 3 - NP - iPSC - 7 rats, which were similar to the sham mice, with 3 - NP and NP - iPSC - 42 rats having significantly fewer mature neurons than the sham rats.

In fact, in one study, a dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1 percent of lab rats (lethal dose «LD01»), when combined with a dose of lead sufficient to kill 1 percent, killed 100 percent of the rats.13 A similar test involving mercury and aluminum in cultured neurons killed 60 percent of the cells when the two low - dose toxicants (LD01) were combined.14 Even antibiotics have been shown to enhance the uptake, retention and toxicity of mercury.14 Additionally, testosterone appears to aggravate mercury toxicity during development, while estrogen protects against it.15 This may explain why more boys than girls are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit disorders.