Smart glue: brain research. (activity of brain cells that are not nerve...

The Economist (US);  October 15, 1994 ;     700+ words ...THE brain is a collection of nerve cells, and thought is manifest in the electrical...ten of the cells in the brain are not nerve cells. And new research suggests that this...cells, fight off infection. Others feed nerve cells essential substances and clean up the...

Supportive cells in the brain generate new nerve cells

The Hindustan Times;  August 21, 2007 ;     370 words ......or disease by finding that functional nerve cells can be generated from astroglia, a type...are star-shaped glia cells, and not nerve cells, they are called "astroglia". Dr. Magdalena...merely as a kind of "putty" keeping the nerve cells together. A research conducted several...

USING NERVE CELLS, SCIENTISTS HAVE OLYMPIC VISIONS

The Boston Globe;  January 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......symbol - five interlocking rings built of nerve cells. The icon, which glows red from a phosphorescent...the body can repair itself but not the nerve cells of the spine. One of the oldest known...1981, a landmark experiment showed that nerve cells can grow back, raising the ...

A powerful beat. (brain wave research shows that electrical activity is...

The Economist (US);  November 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ......the combined activities of millions of nerve cells switching on and off in precise synchrony...rhythm, keeping a steady, periodic beat. Nerve cells are thought to synchronise their activities...texture and motion are each detected by nerve cells in distinct-and often widely ...

U. Houston growth factor research may help fix nerve cells

University Wire;  January 25, 2002 ;     424 words ......jump-starting the faulty wiring in damaged nerve cells and suggests possible avenues for treating...University scientists studying how spinal nerve cells in chicken embryos develop and function...key role in regulating how embryonic nerve cells acquire the ability to start ...

Research May Lead to Jump-Starting Damaged Nerve Cells; Results Hold...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  January 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ......jump-starting the faulty wiring in damaged nerve cells, and suggests possible avenues for treating...Houston scientists studying how spinal nerve cells in chicken embryos develop and function...key role in regulating how embryonic nerve cells acquire the ability to start processing...

This is why nerve cells don't break when we stretch

The Hindustan Times;  August 18, 2007 ;     321 words ......identified the protein that protects long nerve cells from breaking when the body parts are...stretched. The researchers found that nerve cells become brittle and break in the absence...paralysed them. Only three per cent of nerve cells were broken or defective in worm embryos...

ALCOHOL DOESN'T KILL NERVE CELLS, STUDY SAYS

Post-Tribune (IN);  November 12, 1993 ;     387 words ......belief, chronic drinking does not kill nerve cells in the brain - it just disconnects them...function damaged by heavy drinking. Dead nerve cells do not regenerate and are not replaced...technique to count precisely the number of nerve cells in tissue-thin slices of the neocortex...

BONE MARROW MAY HELP REPAIR DAMAGED NERVE CELLS.(Living)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  June 26, 2003 ;     408 words ......marrow might hold promise for repairing nerve cells damaged by spinal cord injuries and...produced substantial regrowth of important nerve cells. The idea is especially tantalizing...myelin, the fatty coating that insulates nerve cells in the brain and enables impulse conduction...

The Journal of Neuroscience: Burnham Institute has Genetically Programmed...

Health & Beauty Close-Up;  June 27, 2008 ;     616 words ......Genetically Programmed ES Cells to Become Nerve Cells(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia...embryonic stem (ES) cells to become nerve cells when transplanted into the brain, according...Institute. We found that we could create new nerve cells from stem cells, transplant ...

Fed: First proof human nerve cells can reconnect

AAP General News (Australia);  February 23, 2006 ;     385 words ......Australia) 02-23-2006 Fed: First proof human nerve cells can reconnect By Janelle Miles, National...scientist has found the first evidence human nerve cells can form new connections even in elderly...degeneration, he found evidence the nerve cells in the retina were able to respond ...

Cholesterol enables nerve cells to connect.(synapse formation)(Brief...

Science News;  November 17, 2001 ;     608 words ......cholesterol may also regulate when and where nerve cells in the brain form the vital junctions...investigators, is their finding that non-nerve cells called glia seem to provide the cholesterol...traditionally drawn less interest than have nerve cells, or neurons, which relay ...

Grow, nerves, grow; how can severed nerve cells be encouraged to...

Science News;  March 29, 1986 ;     700+ words ...GROW, NERVES, GROW How can severed nerve cells be encouraged to reestablish functional...damage in people and other mammals. If nerve cells are killed, they cannot be replaced...9/21/85, p. 183). But the failure of nerve cells in the CNS to regenerate cut processes...

Adult human nerve cells have capacity to re-connect

The Hindustan Times;  February 23, 2006 ;     225 words ......scientist has found the first evidence human nerve cells can form new connections even in elderly...degeneration, he found evidence the nerve cells in the retina were able to respond to...extremely exciting because it's saying adult nerve cells have the capacity to reconnect," Mr...

Australian Scientists Grows Human Nerve Cells

Xinhua News Agency;  April 4, 2000 ;     164 words ......scientists have succeeded in growing human nerve cells from embryonic stem cells, the Age daily...Israel and Singapore. Creating human nerve cells opened the way for new treatments for...We've been able to get them to form pure nerve cells out of the embryonic stem cell line...