Sentences with phrase «with nerve cells»

Dr. Olby wants to restore the myelin sheath to these surviving axons by taking fat cells from the patient and turning them into stem cells that can be combined with nerve cells and injected into the site of the damage, regrowing the sheath.

The gut is filled with nerve cells so probiotics in the gut can also support brain function.

However, the electrical charge Galvani observed was due to the combination of the two metals in contact with the nerve cells, as Volta suggested.

Working with nerve cells growing in culture, investigators reported that the absence of NEU1 was accompanied by an increase in a protein named LAMP1.

Raccoon brains are packed with nerve cells, for instance.

The results of the current study provide a partial answer to this mystery: it is precisely because of their small brain that is densely packed with nerve cells that birds are able to reduce the processing time in tasks that require rapid interaction between different groups of neurons.

Frequently, a virus will infect an epithelial cell, which compared with a nerve cells are «real virus factories,» says Schiffer: They produce massive amounts of virus that can infect other nearby epithelial cells and can presumably also infect sexual partners.

The resting brain is actually pretty busy, with nerve cells firing nearly as often as they do in a waking state.

When Lin's team repeated their experiment with nerve cells, they found that stimulating the quantum dots caused ion channels to open and the nerve cell to fire.

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter — a chemical messenger — that helps the brainstem communicate with nerve cells in the spinal cord and beyond.

«The study did not investigate whether healthy people with nerve cell loss in this region of the brain were more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.

Not exact matches

The start - up's premiere product, the Thin Ice vest, uses cold therapy to target areas of the body with high concentrations of thermoreceptors, which are nerve cells that are able to detect the presence of hot or cold temperatures.

(I saw one of these models — a brain with a cancerous lesion snaked precariously around a cranial nerve — being printed, cell layer by cell layer.)

For one, it would give them three specific biological markers to hone in on: The buildup of beta amyloid and tau proteins, which cause brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's, and brain nerve cell death.

Unlike some of the promising treatments that have failed in 2017 that deal with the so - called «amyloid hypothesis» (the treatments target amyloid beta deposits in the brain that accumulate in people with Alzheimer's disease), approaches that try to prevent nerve cells from dying wouldn't have any impact on that buildup.

The companies» R&D will focus on on a gene mutation present in a wide swath of patients with ALS, a degenerative nervous system disease that eats away at nerve cells and weakens muscles.

With virtual anatomy, there's nothing in the body we can't see: a heart beating, nerves signaling in the brain, a cell dividing, an infection raging.

The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.

Their brain is divided in regions with different coordinated functions, and it is composed of several hundred thousands of nerve cells (the honey bee has about 800,000).

All the nerve cells of the body connect with one another.

Vitamin B6 is a vital nutrient that helps with the production of several neurotransmitters; chemicals that carry signals from one nerve cell to another.

Hahahahaha, no... There is not a bone or nerve or cell in my body capable of feeling in any way sorry for Chelsea or anyone associated with them.

In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with each another, forming primitive neural pathways.

These 24 - hour biological clocks has a «master clock», which is a group of nerve cells in the brain (with a big name that I'm not going to bore you with).

It acts by flooding the gaps between nerve cells with acetylcholine.

Through much trial and effort, his team has learned to use the two cell types to create «sheets» of muscle pre-wired with nerves.

Eight animals were treated with sphincters engineered from their own muscle and nerve cells, eight animals were not treated and four received a «sham» surgery.

One theory suggests that it works because rapidly heating nerve cells with light pulses causes them depolarise, triggering an action potential.

Faced with the complexity of the brain, neuroscience focused on questions that could be subdivided into manageable units: How we see, how we move, how nerve cells work.

Using the mouse as an experimental model, LMU neurobiologist PD Dr. Conny Kopp - Scheinpflug and her research group have now demonstrated that the activity of nerve cells in the auditory system has a direct effect on myelinization — higher levels of activity correlate with the formation of thicker myelin sheaths.

Their brains differed in the activity of over a hundred genes that provide cells with energy, influence chemical communications in the brain and strengthen the connection between nerve cells.

Studies with mice show that specific nerve cells get turned on when they get in their nests — or anything resembling a conventional nest.

Neuroscience focused on the nuts and bolts of the brain: how nerve cells communicate with electrical and chemical pulses, how brains learn and calculate and remember.

The nonsense in dreams is caused by random electrical noise in nerve cells, asserted Hobson, a kind of cellular static; repression had nothing to do with it.

At the same time, the activity of hundreds of nerve cells was measured with so - called microelectrode arrays.

Scientists have discovered why a single mutated protein can lead to serious mental retardation in men with a common genetic disorder called fragile - X syndrome: The healthy protein is essential for establishing during childhood the adult pattern of connections between nerve cells in the brain.

Although amyloid clogs the brain early on, memory loss tracks much better with a different protein, tau, which forms so - called «tangles» within nerve cells.

The cells also underwent tiny zaps of electricity, which allowed researchers to see how the neurons might have communicated with other nerve cells in the brain.

Immune cells are normally associated with fighting infection but in a new study, scientists have discovered how they also help the nervous system clear debris, clearing the way for nerve regeneration after injury.

Nerve cells communicate with each other through two mechanisms, referred to as fast and slow synaptic transmission.

Neutrophils are one of the most common types of immune cells and known to engulf microorganisms, but they are not normally associated with peripheral nerve damage, such as that caused by diabetes or trauma.

We look forward to exploring exactly how these neutrophils work in concert with other cells to accomplish nerve regeneration.»

Glial cells in the spine may activate when pain - related neurons are firing, dosing both limbs with inflammatory substances that may trigger an excitatory response but that may also be toxic to nerves.

The mice were also injected with a dye that could illuminate the footprints of new nerve cell growth in the brain.

When new information needs processing, the nerve cells can develop new synaptic contacts with their neighbouring cells or strengthen existing synapses.

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilepsy.

In the first, the team outfitted 17 8 - month - old babies with EEG caps, headwear covered with electrodes that measure the collective behavior of nerve cells across the brain.

«We came up with a list of potential cellular candidates that could be compensating for the loss of these specific macrophages and used several different tests to determine which cells were clearing away the nerve debris after injury,» Lindborg said.

They also found AXIN2 in the damaged nerve cells of adults with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks myelin.

Lambert - Eaton syndrome, an autoimmune disorder frequently associated with small - cell carcinoma of the lung, is characterized by impaired evoked release of acetylcholine from the motor nerve terminal.