nerve-cells

And sixth, these modular genes seem to be involved in the crucial job of linking nerve cells together through junctions called synapses.

Amyloid beta itself might be injuring nerve cells or the plaques, made of accumulations of amyloid beta, could be the culprits.

They have also made a logic element out of a pair of leech neurons (nerve cells from blood-sucking worms) placed on a microchip.

You and I have a hundred billion nerve cells in our brain, with a hundred trillion connections between them.

It may simply be a matter of dilution, of course, with a greater number of healthy nerve cells covering for damaged ones.

Many cells in multicellular organisms, including animal muscle and nerve cells, either slow the cycle or break out of it altogether.

Dr Yamanaka's team has, for instance, been able to persuade its stem cells to turn into nerve cells and heart cells.

Her brain had sticky structures and nerve cells that appeared to be mixed together.

The nerve cells that start REM sleep seem to do so by releasing a chemical called acetylcholine.

One set of nerve cells projecting from the amygdala reaches evolutionarily ancient parts of the midbrain and brain stem.

Moreover, brain tissue contains a great deal of oxidizable material, particularly in the fatty membranes surrounding nerve cells.

However, dendrites -- the receiving end of nerve cells -- have always been quite mysterious.

The human brain contains several billion nerve cells, which are connected with one another by fine nerves.

Promotes the body's absorption of calcium, essential for maintenance of healthy bones and teeth, as well as nerve cells.

The body has about a hundred billion nerve cells, and every experience triggers a brain response that literally shapes our senses.

Unlike pathogens that spread in readily accessed blood, HSV hides out in nerve cells called dorsal ganglia, located in the back.

PEA or phenylethylamine is a chemical that speeds up the flow of information between nerve cells.

Until now, it was not clear why the disease only affects nerve cells and how the abnormal protein agglutination is triggered.

abstract: BACKGROUND: Mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs) could differentiate into nerve cells, but the molecular mechanism is still unknown.

The nerve cells themselves will not be replaced, so even in principle such treatment could not help everyone with a spinal injury.

Scientists have discovered a protein molecule on the surface of nerve cells that makes us cough when irritated.

The nerve cells in the prefrontal cortex of fathers had more tiny projections, known as dendritic spines, than those of non-fathers.

The tangles are made of a different rogue protein, and form inside nerve cells.

Moreover, brain tissue contains a great deal of oxidisable material, particularly in the fatty membranes surrounding nerve cells.

Sort of eavesdrop on the activity of nerve cells in the brain .

The brain's nerve cells are known as neurons, which make up the organ's so-called "gray matter. "

He said calorie restriction seemed to slow down the loss of nerve cells in the brain.

The waves move up and down every time the brain receives messages from the nerve cells .

The synapse of nerve cells involved in transmitting pain is an ideal place for a narcotic to do its work.

Much interest has also been shown in projects to use other communication signals between nerve cells.

The other end of each electrode is attached to a nerve cell, so that the BrainGate can sense the activity of 100 nerve cells simultaneously.

In the brain, parts of nerve cells and single synapses are often enclosed by star-shaped cells, the astrocytes.

Serotonin is one of the messenger molecules that carry signals between nerve cells in the brain.

Conclusions: Degeneration of nerve cells was the pathologic basement of animal dementia. . .

In its most basic form, the brain is a cluster of nerve cells, capable of communicating with each other using tiny pulses of electricity.

After 32 days, some of the former skin cells had acquired the appearance of nerve cells and were producing neural proteins.

It was the first time a specific memory had been traced to the nerve cells that encoded it.

However, since nerve cells do not replicate or divide, they are immune to the toxic effects of microtubule-binding drugs.

Nerve cells in this area have been shown to be more active when itchy substances are applied to the skin.

A computer will read those images, trace the outlines of nerve cells, and stack the pictures into a 3D reconstruction.

These membranes conduct electrical impulses that promote communication between nerve cells, contributing to healthy cognitive function.

Other studies have shown that it helps in the synthesis and repair of DNA and that it plays a role in signaling between nerve cells.

The researchers created a molecule that binds preferentially to nerve cells, and labelled it with a fluorescent tag.

Synapse: Site of transmission of electric nerve impulses between two nerve cells or between a nerve cell and a gland or muscle cell.

This molecule acts, in animals that have nervous systems, as a chemical messenger between nerve cells.

These specialised nerve cells mimic the mental state of those we come in contact with.

It was observed that nerve cells decreased obviously and nerve cells arranged disorder in cerebral cortex and hippocampus in model group.

The team specifically targeted the olfactory nerve cells, or neurons, in fruit flies that are normally triggered by the smell of ripe fruit.

Stem cells can be collected from these embryos and grown into adult nerve cells that are prone to developing the disease.

Nerve cells transmit information through the body.

The brain is the most complex organ in the body with millions of nerve cells connected by billions of synapses.

And as myelin grows, the thicker it gets, the faster the electrical messages on the nerve cells are able to move.

Scientists assume that insoluble protein aggregations (plaques) in nerve cells trigger Chorea Huntington, an inherited disease.

Eating a high fat diet causes more 'insulation' in the nerve cells, and makes it even harder for the brain to help a person lose weight.

The research team then used microscopic techniques to visualize the spines on nerve cells within the prefrontal cortex.

One way genes affect behaviour is through the agency of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that carry messages between nerve cells.

The cells have the potential to become many of the different cell types found in the body, including nerve cells.

The researchers also found that many of the nerve cells were not in a line way they should have been.

Cobalamin helps maintain healthy nerve cells and red blood cells, and is also needed to produce DNA, the genetic material in all cells.

One line of research focuses on the endings of nerve cells in the brain, which degenerate as the disease progresses.

Memantine improves symptoms by blocking abnormal activity of glutamate, a chemical that transmits messages between nerve cells.

They inserted a gene for a light-activated algal protein into mice brains, where it entered nerve cells.

Now, researchers hae found that a much-studied gene provides branches of nerve cells the ability to recognize one another and grow apart.

Huntington's disease: is a disorder passed down through families in which nerve cells in the brain waste away, or degenerate.

The stiffness of scar tissue may also prevent regeneration in nerve injury, because nerve cells prefer the softest of surroundings.

Respiratory center is composed of several groups of nerve cells which produce and regulate respiratory movement in central nervous system.

New research shows that the answer may lie in serotonin, a neurotransmitter, or chemical messenger produced by nerve cells.

The chip receives visual information and activates electrodes that in turn fire the nerve cells that carry visual input to the brain.

They also found that mice without PrP in certain nerve cells suffer from a demyelinating disease that closely resembles one seen in people.

This surface is called the cerebral cortex and is home to about 100 billion neurons, or nerve cells.

Rabies hops between nerve cells as it races to the brain, which is why even an infected bite on the ankle will eventually drive someone mad.

Likewise, genes involved in making the myelin sheaths that insulate nerve cells go wrong in both schizophrenic and bipolar patients.

Part of the answer may lie in the chemicals that bathe the brain and promote communication among nerve cells.

Stress also suppresses the generation of new nerve cells in the brain, and causes the "remodelling" of existing ones.

Altering nerve activity during development determines the "mother tongue" nerve cells use to communicate.

because its defining characteristics are microscopic plaques and tangles in the nerve cells of the brain.

Glioma is a type of primary tumor that arises from the glial cells-- the connective tissue cells that surround and support nerve cells.

Stained in black are the fiber-like extensions of the nerve cells, called axons.

Dopamine, like other neurotransmitters, moves between nerve cells in the brain to convey certain "messages. "

The majority of cells in the human brain are not nerve cells but star-shaped glia cells, the so called " astroglia " .

The spinal cord is less then two feet in length and is the same diameter as your index finger, yet it contains over 10 billion nerve cells.

First, cardiovascular workouts stimulate brain chemicals that foster growth of nerve cells.

Spinal cord damage obstructs the pathways the brain uses to transit messages to the nerve cells that control walking.

The findings imply nerve cells common to both male and female worms are central to sexual attraction and sexual orientation.

But the point is that novelty-seeking is controlled by nerve cells that respond to dopamine.

CONCLUSION: The spinal cord decompression can effectively inhibit the apoptosis of nerve cells.

From a cellular perspective, learning takes place when the connections between nerve cells are strengthened.

Researchers also tested the electrical activity of single intestinal sensory nerve cells.

Sensory stimuli from the male trigger responses in a well-defined circuit of nerve cells.

To find out, the researchers used drugs to increase and decrease the electrical activity in nerve cells of frog embryos.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, a chemical messenger between nerve cells in the mammalian brain.

Vitus' dance -- is a progressive, degenerative condition that causes nerve cells in the brain to waste away.

sustained increase of calcium in nerve cells and plays a crucial role in the formation of memory and addictive behaviors.

This receptor is a protein usually found on nerve cells, where it plays a role in nerve cell recognition and motility.

This reprogramming of the genes in the brain helps nerve cells to grow and develop larger networks.

Both drugs tested are T-type calcium channel blockers, which inhibit the movement of calcium ions into nerve cells.

Our muscles are controlled by thousands of nerve cells in the spinal cord.

Bones grow fragile. Skin creases. Nerve cells degenerate. And eventually the whole lot collapses.

Nicotine, like cocaine, activates nerve cells in the brain's mesolimbic system that contain dopamine.

Until now, astrocytes were thought to have their main role in the development and nutrition of the brain's nerve cells.

Electronic circuits work a thousand times more rapidly than nerve cells in the human brain.

It spares the synaptic receptors that mediate normal communication between nerve cells in the brain.

Did you know that you have one hundred billion nerve cells in your brain, and every nerve cell has many connections to other nerve cells?

The biological clock itself is believed to be a cluster of nerve cells called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

They carry a nerve impulse across the gap between nerve cells.

passages . These nerve cells are stimulated by oily , non-water-soluble substances carried in.

Signals from the free radicals may then move to nerve cells in cluster N, ultimately telling the birds where north is.

As this protective layer erodes, nerve cells gradually lose their ability to transmit signals.

The source of the nerve cells that power the animals' forelimbs shifted, from the brain to the spinal cord.

From the infection site, it moves through nerve cells toward the spinal cord and brain.

From the infection site, it moves through nerve cells toward the spinal cord and brain.

None of the dye had entered the nerve cells.

Muscles weaken. Bones grow fragile. Skin creases. Nerve cells degenerate.

Nerve cells in the gut are located in the tissues lining the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and colon.

Seizures happen when nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain send out the wrong signals.

The cells do this by adding new proteins at the synapse, or connection, between nerve cells.

Like Dr Tabrizi, Dr Greenwood infected several types of mouse nerve cells with prions.

Many key components first appeared in single-celled organisms, long before animals, brains and even nerve cells existed.

Damaged olfactory nerve cells can regenerate, but don't always reconnect properly in the brain.

They say the drug appears to eliminate the physical obstacles that normally prevent injured nerve cells from regrowing axons.

They say the drug appears to eliminate the physical obstacles that normally prevent injured nerve cells from regrowing axons.

Scientists assume that these protein aggregations are toxic for nerve cells.

The breakdown occurs in the recycling system in the nerve cells of the spinal cord and the brain.

Lymphocytes, like nerve cells, use a lot of energy and thus rely heavily on their mitochondria.

In the snail, indiidual nerve cells are relatively large and easily identifiable . They are accessible for experimental manipulations.

Using this set up, they watched nerve cells light up as the animals moved at different speeds.

The nerve cells of the cochlea then die and permanent deafness results.

The cancer develops in specialised nerve cells, called neural crest cells.

Spines are specializations on nerve cells that form the synapses that are critically important to the process of learning.

New neurons are born not from mature nerve cells but rather develop from neural stem cells that remain in our brains throughout life.

At the top of the circuit, certain nerve cells receive and retain sex hormones such as estrogens and progesterone.

HAR1 is expressed in cells that are thought to have a vital role in directing migrating nerve cells in the developing brain.

Nerve cells die in areas of the brain that are vital to memory and other mental abilities.

But that didn't prove that the spinal cord neurons, or nerve cells, that harbored this gene were itch-specific.

Loss of hearing. As dogs age, the nerve cells and hearing apparatus degenerates, resulting in a slow loss of hearing.

Electric signals start in nerve cells and travel along these fibers to and from the brain.

these make up nerve cells , which are connected by electrical impulses.

Liver cells, nerve cells, pancreatic cells -- we still can't grow them even today.

As we get older, the number of nerve cells - or neurons - in the brain decrease.

First he mimicked early development when nerve cells are plastic.

A key player in the B-vitamin pathway, B12 helps maintain healthy nerve cells, form red blood cells, and synthesize DNA.

There is also some hope that growth factors produced by the injected cells will spur damaged nerve cells to regenerate.

Learning is essentially realizing the link of groups of nerve cells.

He mimicked early development when nerve cells are plastic.

Once the wave passes by, the nerve cells become quiet and spent.

The softest gels, which were as flabby as brain tissue, gave rise to nerve cells.

Here silver has been deposited on nerve cells and their delicate processes in the brain.

We are not replacing those motor neurons [nerve cells which tell muscles to contract].

Pick's disease damages nerve cells in the brain's frontal and temporal lobes .

First young nerve cells move towards their allotted sites in the brain.

Nerve cells have a huge demand for energy, so a failure of the mitochondria would certainly affect them.

The plaques are globes of rogue protein in the spaces between nerve cells.

They then give rise to nerve cells, pigment-producing cells and some bones of the skull.

Nerve cells carry and receive nervous impulses.

The brain is the most complex machine in the universe - it has over 100, 000, 000, 000 nerve cells each with up to 150, 000 connections.

Neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine are chemicals released from nerve cells that transmit messages to other nerve cells.

For example, nerve cells implanted into a damaged spinal cord might repair it, allowing the patient to walk.

In their lab studies, 2-ACP latched onto a type-2 alkene called acrolein and prevented the toxin from damaging nerve cells.

A group of specialized nerve cells or a localized mass of gray matter in the brain or spinal cord.

So far, astrocytes were mainly thought to aid nerve cells - for example by supporting them or by promoting the maturation of synapses.

It blocks the connection of adenosine to nerve cells.

The molecular fingerprints of nerve cells in the worm and the fishwere almost identical.

There are data to show that sense-stimulating activities tend to expand or enrich certain nerve cells in the brain.

Nerve cells in the genitals become excited.

The synapses of young nerve cells must mature before they can release their neurotransmitters to the full extent.

Your brain is made up by billions of interlinked nerve cells.

There, a collection of nerve cells work together and communicate much as the neurons in our brain do.

These are important for the growth of nerve cells and are abundant in human milk but generally absent from formulas.

But how do these nerve cells in hippocamus get information fixed.

It suggests a way to keep nerve cells in the brain communicating, which is vital for thinking and memory.

But some conditions, such as excessive stress and depression, hamper the growth of newborn nerve cells.

They have neither nerve cells nor a nerve centre.

They grew these in Petri dishes into two kinds of adult nerve cells, and did the same with skin cells from healthy people.

When nerve cells were exposed to it at close range, for example, they heated up and died.

As expected, this made the nerve cells dim because they had regained the ability to dispose of their fluorescent rubbish.

The first nerve cells it passes through react only to simple stimuli, such as edges slanting at particular angles.

These are quite effective in reducing the prion levels of cultured nerve cells.

In the laboratory dish, the cells were seen to signal and make connections with other nerve cells.

NBRC scientist Anirban Basu says the virus not only kills the brain cells, but also stem cells that give rise to new brain and nerve cells.

He picked this animal because its body has a mere 959 cells, of which 302 are nerve cells.

In order to learn something, i. e. to process new information, nerve cells grow new connections or strengthen existing contact points.

These are chemicals used by nerve cells in the brain to communicate with each other.

Calcium, for example, is essential for brain development because it facilitates the growth of nerve cells.

Experimental Methods Study of the Investigation on Inducement and Differentiation of Rat Whole Bone Marrow Cells into Nerve Cells in vitro

color vision in vertebrates begins with the cone cells in the retina , the layer of nerve cells that transmits visual signals to the brain

Dynamic alteration in the degree of lipid peroxidation and activity of superoxide dismutase in nerve cells during aging

Human cytomegalovirus productive infection on neonatal murine cerebral cortex nerve cells

Diagnostic Value of Specific Enolase in Serous Nerve Cells in Monitoring Hyperbilirubinemia Brain Damage of Newborn Infant

Nerve cells injury in hippocampal region after focal cerebral ischemia-reperfusion for rats with diabetes

Effects of melatonin on intracellular free calcium and CaM of nerve cells in hippocampus of morphine withdrawal rats

Research progress of induced differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells into nerve cells

Effect of acrylonitrile on proliferation and differentiation of rat embryo midbrain nerve cells

Effect of basic fibroblast growth factor on the apoptosis of nerve cells in rats after intracerebral hemorrhage

During upgrowth, estrogen affected the living and development of nerve cells, its effect involves pallium , nerve stem cells, etc;

Changes of c-fos protein expression in local brain nerve cells after mild hypothermia treatment

Differentiation of bone-derived mesenchymal stem cells into nerve cells in rabbits

Inducement of rat bone marrow stromal cells to neural stem cells and nerve cells in vitro with cytokines

Effect of Hui-shen Granule on Apoptosis of Nerve Cells in Ischemic Region After Local Cerebral Ischemia in Rats

Progress in human umbilical cord blood cells differentiating into nerve cells in vivo

Effect of methylmercury chloride on the c-fos expression in brain nerve cells of the rats

Influence of AMPA receptor on spinal nerve cells in rats with sciatic nerve transection

For starters, it stimulates brain chemicals that foster the growth of nerve cells;

The Effect of Soybean Isoflavone Active Extracts on Nerve Cells in Brain and Serum Lipoprotein and SOD Activities in AD Mice

Progress of Differentiation of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells into Nerve Cells

Observation on the distribution of tegument nerve cells and nerve fibers in Pagumogonimus skrjabini

Protective Effects of Jiunaoning Injection against the Lesions of Cultured Nerve Cells Caused by Oxygen and Glucose Deprivation

Inducement and Differentiation of Rat Bone Marrow Cells into Nerve Cells In Vitro

Heat shock protein protects dopaminergic nerve cells

Effect of Water Extract of Poria on Cytosolic Free Calcium Concentration in Brain Nerve Cells of Neonatal Rats

Morphological study on in vitro inducement and differentiation of nerve cells derived from rat BMSC

Mechanism of the protection of stilbene glycoside which is the effective component of tuber fleeceflower root on nerve cells

The effect of ATP on the differentiation of rabbit bone-marrow mesenchymal stem cells into nerve cells

Neurochip: A new technology for probing nerve cells and brain

Effect of MK-801 on calcium overload of cerebral cortex nerve cells with hypoxic ischemic brain damage

Sodium azide induces damage of microtubules and cell viability in cul-tured nerve cells

The study on the apoptosis of nerve cells of spinal cord of rat following unilaterals sciatic nerve transection

decreasing the level of NO so that toxic factors which followed were alleviated in the nerve cells and avoided the death of cell;

Effect of ferulic acid on the changes of cytosolic free calcium in nerve cells of retina

Changes of nerve cells in striatum with aging in rat

Effect of ferulic acid on the proliferation of nerve cells of retinas in vitro

Effects of cleistocalyx operculatus on oxygenic injury of nerve cells

The effect of Fuzhisan on apoptosis of cultured nerve cells