News tagged with motor axons
Researchers regenerate axons necessary for voluntary movement
Apr 06, 2009 |
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For the first time, researchers have clearly shown regeneration of a critical type of nerve fiber that travels between the brain and the spinal cord and which is required for voluntary movement. The regeneration was accomplished ...
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Autopilot guides proteins in brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Proteins go everywhere in the cell and do all sorts of work, but a fundamental question has eluded biologists: How do the proteins know where to go?
Lab-grown nerves promote nerve regeneration after injury
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have engineered transplantable living nerve tissue that encourages and guides regeneration in an animal model. Results were published this month in Tissue En ...
Sharing the road
Apr 10, 2008 |
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Come summer, we will once again marvel at the amazing athletic skills of Olympic athletes while in fact, the simple act of walking is no less remarkable. Just to prevent us from toppling over, the neuromuscular ...
Finding the Right Connection after Spinal Cord Injury
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 02, 2009 |
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In a major step in spinal cord injury research, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that regenerating axons can be guided to their correct targets and ...
New Pathway is a Common Thread in Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases
Jan 29, 2009 |
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How are neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's initiated, and why is age the major risk factor? A recent study of a protein called MOCA (Modifier of Cell Adhesion), carried out at the Salk Institute ...
Promising new nanotechnology for spinal cord injury
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 02, 2008 |
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A spinal cord injury often leads to permanent paralysis and loss of sensation below the site of the injury because the damaged nerve fibers can't regenerate. The nerve fibers or axons have the capacity to grow again, but ...
Penn researchers engineer first system of human nerve-cell tissue
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that living human nerve cells can be engineered into a network that could one day be used for transplants to repair damaged ...
Conceptualizing a cyborg
Jan 18, 2007 |
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Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine describe the basis for developing a biological interface that could link a patient's nervous system to a thought-driven artificial limb. Their ...
RNA on the move
Nov 26, 2009 |
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In the fruit fly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal’s body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along ...
Scientists discover master regulator of motor neuron firing
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When the Human Genome Project was complete, DNA bowed out of the limelight and gave way to RNA as a major player in genetic regulation. Now, findings at Rockefeller University mirror this ...
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