News tagged with motor nerves
Light now in sight: Control of a 'blind' neuroreceptor with an optical switch
When nerve cells communicate with one another, specialized receptor molecules on their surfaces play a central role in relaying signals between them. A collaborative venture involving teams of chemists based at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Scientists discover how molecular motors go into 'energy save mode'
The transport system inside living cells is a well-oiled machine with tiny protein motors hauling chromosomes, neurotransmitters and other vital cargo around the cell. These molecular motors are responsible ...
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Human-cell-derived model of ALS provides a new way to study the majority of cases
For decades, scientists have studied a laboratory mouse model that develops signs of the paralyzing disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) as they age. In a new study appearing in Nature Biotechnology, investigators at Nat ...
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Scientists discover new hitch to link nerve cell motors to their cargo
from the blink of an eye to running a marathon—nerve cells transmit signals to muscle cells. To do that, nerve cells rely on tiny molecular motors to transport chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that excite muscles ...
May 25, 2011 |
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Stem cell study could aid motor neurone disease research
Scientists have discovered a new way to generate human motor nerve cells in a development that will help research into motor neurone disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Study identifies motor neurone disease biomarker
A study funded by the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association, in collaboration with the Medical Research Council (MRC), has identified a common signature of nerve damage in the brains of MND patients.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Light workout: Scientists use optogenetics to effectively stimulate muscle movement in mice
Researchers at Stanford University were able to use light to induce normal patterns of muscle contraction, in a study involving bioengineered mice whose nerve-cell surfaces are coated with special light-sensitive proteins.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 26, 2010 |
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Preserving nerve cells in motor neuron disease
A team of researchers, led by Scott Oakes, at the University of California, San Francisco, has identified a way to prevent symptom onset, weight loss, and paralysis and extend survival in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Improving recovery from spinal cord injury
Once damaged, nerves in the spinal cord normally cannot grow back and the only drug approved for treating these injuries does not enable nerve regrowth. Publishing online this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Researchers discover genetic link between both types of ALS
Researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have discovered a link between sporadic and familial forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig's ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 05, 2010 |
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Age dramatically delays recovery of the sense of taste
Age dramatically delays the time if takes to recover the sense of taste following a significant nerve injury, Medical College of Georgia researchers said.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 21, 2010 |
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Study: Gene therapy reverses effects of lethal childhood muscle disorder in mice
Reversing a protein deficiency through gene therapy can correct motor function, restore nerve signals and improve survival in mice that serve as a model for the lethal childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy, new research ...
Feb 28, 2010 |
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Gene mutation is linked to autism-like symptoms in mice
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a gene implicated in human autism is disabled in mice, the rodents show learning problems and obsessive, repetitive behaviors, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Scientists find survival factor for keeping nerve cells healthy
Scientists at the Babraham Institute have discovered a novel survival factor whose rapid transport along nerve cells is crucial for keeping them alive. The same factor seems likely to be needed to keep our nerves healthy ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Nano-motors facilitate communication between brain cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- MRC-funded scientists led by Dr Josef Kittler (University College London Neuroscience) have identified how nano-sized motors in nerve cells help to regulate the balance of communication in ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 22, 2010 |
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