... lab on a chip to image, perform surgery on and sort tiny worms to study nerve regeneration ...
... -thin worm is providing substantial clues on how nerves regenerate, offering insight and hope to finding genes that affect nerve generation and ultimately new drugs and therapies for human neurodegenerative diseases ...
... that can mimic biological systems and can be used as components of artificial nerves, electronic noses/tongues, drug-release ...
... that serve many functions; one of their roles is to chew up damaged nerves during brain injury and then form ... the cell and then subsequently taken up by nearby nerves, and that the level of MT uptake correlated with how well ...
... . This research offers positive perspectives for patients with nerve injuries that have been irreversible up to now. Drosophila as model ... new molecules that are involved in the repair of damaged nerve bundles. These molecules will then be candidate molecules ...
... and match to generate the myriad types of neurons or nerve cells needed to assemble the brain and nervous ... of motor neurons in mice. Two types of nerve cells – spinal motor neurons and V2 ...
... , gunshots and everyday accidents, but it also has been used to treat cavernous nerves after the removal of the prostate. The AVANCE product has treated ... ," Schmidt says. "Formerly a patient's only option was to use their own nerve or the completely synthetic grafts." By using the detergent solution ...
... , also known as stress-induced analgesia (SIA). Some of the nerves and nerve-produced peptides that are responsible for SIA ... that in the brain of normal mice, Hcrt-producing nerve cells (Hcrt neurons) and N/ORQ ...
... an immune rejection response has been used to create acellular nerve grafts now used successfully in hospitals around ...
... the researchers to uncover some of the biochemical steps that happen as nerve cells mature. It also showed that large-scale ... also prevented the stem cells from developing into non-nerve cells and was more potent than other neurogenic substances in stimulating ...
... requires synapses, specialized contact sites between nerve cells and their targets. One particular synapse type, cholinergic, uses the chemical transmitter acetylcholine to communicate between nerve cells. Cholinergic synapses are essential for normal ...
... -induced analgesia. New research has now revealed that nerves producing the peptide N/ORQ ...
... of Medicine in St. Louis. They found the compounds activate nerve cells in the male mouse's nose with unprecedented ... these attachments, the GCCs lost their ability to activate nerves, further suggesting that the link between the sulfated GCCs ...
... , cholinergic, uses the chemical transmitter acetylcholine to communicate between nerve cells. Cholinergic synapses are essential for normal ... of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors at the synapse." "A single nerve cell synthesizes multiple different neurotransmitter ...
... from The Scripps Research Institute. "We found that we could create new nerve cells from stem cells, transplant them ... -based therapies, we need to have a reliable source of nerve cells that can be easily grown, differentiate in the way ...