Science news articles about 'control pathways'

... phenomenon, termed pre-emptive quality control (pQC), protects cells in the short term ... damage, showing that an ordinarily helpful quality control pathway can be detrimental over long periods of time ...

... end of baroreceptors, where they connect to second-order neurons in the blood-pressure control pathway," said Balkowiec. "BDNF has previously been shown to play an important role in establishing ...

... that when it comes to pain control, the "placebo effect" involves evolutionarily old pain control pathways in the human brainstem, the part of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord. The ...

... protein, called neurofibromin, influences a number of different growth control pathways. Until now, much research focused on neurofibromin's effects on RAS protein activity, which is ...

... 's lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), describes a new control pathway of a gene responsible for mitochrondrial fusion, a process that contributes to the correct function ...

... used cultured mouse cells that were engineered to glow green when Wnt-controlled pathways were active. A robotic device then tested 200,000 compounds to measure their effects on the ...

... disease condition," Ray said. "Once we understand how this gene is activated, we can design drugs to control pathways to reduce the severity of MMP-1-mediated cartilage destruction. We found strong ...

... cytotoxicity than tumor cells with wild type p53, suggesting that the normal p53 checkpoint control pathways have been restored in the mutant p53-expressing tumor cells. This novel finding suggests ...

... the contributing factors to nerve cell death is an excess of the chemical glutamate in the motor control pathways in the brain. An excess of this chemical changes the way these pathways operate and ...