Sentences with phrase «types of neurons form»

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«The interaction between the two types of neurons could also help explain the presence of seizures in patients with schizophrenia, dementia and some forms of autism.»

«Our work suggests that the neural pathology of autism manifests in the earliest cortical circuits, formed by a cell type called subplate neurons,» said UMD Biology Professor and senior study author Patrick Kanold.

LPA receptors are all over neural progenitor cells, which go on to form neurons and other types of cells in a young brain.

In an experimental setup that allowed the two types of cells to bathe in the same fluid without coming into physical contact, retinal neurons in a bath with hUTCs formed new connections between neurons called synapses, and they sprouted new «neurites» — tiny branches that lead to additional connections.

All formed the same types of stem cells, which give rise to «progenitor» cells that, in turn, divide into neurons and eventually organize themselves in six layers of brain tissue.

The research also answers a long - standing question about why motor neurons, the nerve cells of the spinal cord that control muscle movement, form much faster than other types of neurons.

In vertebrates, the axons of many neurons are sheathed in myelin, which is formed by either of two types of glial cells: Schwann cells ensheathing peripheral neurons and oligodendrocytes insulating those of the central nervous system.

Neurobiologist Marta Florio and her team made the discovery while studying a type of neural stem cell that forms neurons when embryos develop.

«Now that we have the cellular and molecular information, the future promises to be very exciting when this knowledge can be used to understand how this system is formed during gestation and how the different neuron types go about controlling the body's functions,» says study leader Patrik Ernfors, professor of tissue biology

In studies of neural development in mice, Stahl found that TRNP1 produces a protein that determines whether neural stem cells self - replicate, leading to a balloonlike expansion of cortical surface area, or whether they differentiate into a plethora of intermediate stem cell types and neurons, thickening the cortex and forming more complex brain structures.

The most severe form of SMA is Type 1, a lethal genetic disorder characterized by motor neuron loss and associated muscle deterioration, which results in mortality or the need for permanent ventilation support before the age of two for greater than 90 percent of patients.

Scientists recently announced that blood stem cells, a type of adult stem cell, form cells that look suspiciously like neurons — brain cells.