News tagged with growing axon
Turn back, wayward axon
To a growing axon, the protein RGMa is a "Wrong Way" sign, alerting it to head in another direction. As Hata et al. demonstrate in the March 9, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, translating that s ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Physicists 'turn signals' for neuron growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new paper scheduled for publication in the January issue of Nature Photonics describes the use of spinning microparticles to direct the growth of nerve fiber, a discovery that could allow ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Researchers identify signals triggering dendrite growth
A study in worms that are less than a millimetre long has yielded clues that may be important for understanding how nerves grow.
Sep 20, 2011 |
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MS research: Myelin influences how brain cells send signals
The development of a new cell-culture system that mimics how specific nerve cell fibers in the brain become coated with protective myelin opens up new avenues of research about multiple sclerosis. Initial findings suggest ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Scientists discover new direction in Alzheimer's research
In what they are calling a new direction in the study of Alzheimer's disease, UC Santa Barbara scientists have made an important finding about what happens to brain cells that are destroyed in Alzheimer's ...
Jun 06, 2011 |
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Human stem cells transformed into key neurons lost in Alzheimer's
Northwestern Medicine researchers for the first time have transformed a human embryonic stem cell into a critical type of neuron that dies early in Alzheimer's disease and is a major cause of memory loss.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Biologists gain new insights into brain circuit wiring
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurobiologists at UC San Diego have discovered new ways by which nerves are guided to grow in highly directed ways to wire the brain during embryonic development.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Partnership of genes affects the brain's development (w/ Video)
The human brain consists of approximately one hundred billion nerve cells. Each of these cells needs to connect to specific other cells during the brain's development in order to form a fully functional organism. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 13, 2011 |
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Study shows map of brain connectivity changes during development
Connected highways of nerve cells carry information to and from different areas of the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Scientists are trying to draw a complete atlas of these connections -- sometimes ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Scientists find measles' natural nemesis
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found that a known enzyme in cells protects against measles virus, likely by altering the virus's genetic material, RNA. Cells lacking the enzyme become highly vulnerable ...
Jan 20, 2011 |
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Unlocking the secret(ase) of building neural circuits
Mutant presenilin is infamous for its role in the most aggressive form of Alzheimer's disease -- early-onset familial Alzheimer's -- which can strike people as early as their 30s. In their latest study, researchers ...
Jan 18, 2011 |
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