News tagged with nerve axons
Rethinking Alzheimer's disease and its treatment targets
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychiatry professor George Bartzokis introduces a new theory about the fundamental cause of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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 ...
Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 17, 2009 |
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They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can.
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Scientists create working artificial nerve networks
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Scientists have already hooked brains directly to computers by means of metal electrodes, in the hope of both measuring what goes on inside the brain and eventually healing conditions such as blindness or epilepsy. In the ...
Maintaining the brain's wiring in aging and disease
Dec 05, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Babraham Institute near Cambridge, supported by the Alzheimer's Research Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have discovered that the brain's circuitry survives ...
New research reveals critical knowledge about the nervous system
Nov 06, 2007 |
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Uncover the neural communication links involved in myelination, the process of protecting a nerve’s axon, and it may become possible to reverse the breakdown of the nervous system’s electrical transmissions in such disorders ...
Claudin 11 stops the leaks in neuronal myelin sheaths
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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Devaux and Gow demonstrate how a tight junction protein called claudin 11 makes the neuronal myelin sheath a snug fit. The study will be published in the December 1, 2008 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.
Blocking protein may help ease painful nerve condition
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 15, 2009 |
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Scientists have identified the first gene that pulls the plug on ailing nerve cell branches from within the nerve cell, possibly helping to trigger the painful condition known as neuropathy.
Prostate cancer spurs new nerves
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Prostate cancer – and perhaps other cancers – promotes the growth of new nerves and the branching axons that carry their messages, a finding associated with more aggressive tumors, said researchers from Baylor College of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Researchers Disprove 15-year-old Theory about the Nervous System
Feb 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A delay in traffic may cause a headache, but a delay in the nervous system can cause much more. University of Missouri researchers have uncovered clues identifying which proteins are involved in the development ...
What makes an axon an axon?
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Nov 10, 2008 |
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Inside every axon is a dendrite waiting to get out. Hedstrom et al. converted mature axons into dendrites by banishing a protein crucial for neuron development. The results suggest that this transformation could occur after ...
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