... peptide Humanin (HN) protects against neuronal cell death such as happens in Alzheimer's disease ... the naturally occurring peptide's ability to preserve cells is promising. One concern of anti-diabetic drugs ...
... about the processes that take place inside the infected neuronal cell. This made it difficult to develop effective ... role disturbed cholesterol regulation plays in neuronal cells for the development of prion diseases and shall ...
... to neurodevelopmental defects associated with autism, interferes with neuronal cell function. It is an important finding because ... in the brain. "Early in the first trimester of pregnancy, neuronal cells reach out to communicate with one another," says Dorota ...
Researchers have identified a novel signal transduction pathway, which activates the parkin gene and prevents stress-induced neuronal cell death.
... arrangement of their dendrites, branch-like structures on neuronal cells that form a communicative network with other dendrites and neurons in the brain. The work, led by neuroscientists Joshua R ...
... out that similar statistics are shown in activity avalanches between neuronal cells grown in vitro in a Petri dish. The statistics of such an artificially raised neuronal “society” are also known to change when information exchange ...
... induce neurotransmitter activity in brain cells The findings may lead researchers ... lead to preservation and increased survival of neurons in the brain and it may have direct implications in the therapy ...
... of the mouth. In these palps, there are always six types of neurons, cells that transmit information from the sensing part ... expression (stopping receptors from appearing in the wrong neurons) so that when the regulator is experimentally blocked, the related ...
... disease involving the degeneration and death of motor neuron cells. ALS is one of the most common neuromuscular diseases ... delineate how mutations in SOD1 lead to motor neuron cell death and the progression of ALS. The researchers ...
... for the normal development of motor nerve cells (motor neurons) - cells that control muscles. This finding ... of spinal cord motor nerve cells. Motor neurons are highly specialized. They have distinct characteristics ...
... issue of the journal Developmental Cell, reveals new information about how neuronal communication and plasticity are affected ... " outward from the main body of the cell so that they can communicate with other neuronal cells. These sites of communication, called ...
... to this research, creating pure neuronal cells from ES cells had been problematic as the cells did not always ... ' desirable properties. Even when the neuronal cells were created successfully, they often died in the brain following ...
... , such as multiple sclerosis, stroke and epilepsy that not only affect neuronal cells but also disrupt the functioning of glial support ... normal conditions, the majority of newborn cells differentiated into neurons. When he introduced the Ascl1, which had previously ...
... has not been applied to the study of very complex cells, such as the brain's neurons, on a full-genome scale. Dr ... and her fellow researchers took fresh neuronal cells extracted from embryos of the fruit fly ...
Scientists have learned important details illustrating how neuronal cells in the brain communicate at a microcellular level ... disorders caused by malfunctions in communication between brain cells, such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease ...
