Nerve cells that had similar gene expression profiles were grouped together as one sensory nerve cell type. In this way, they identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells in humans. As the ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo.

This finding challenges the conventional view of nerve cells as highly specialized and instead highlights their versatile ...

Amino acid balance could play a role in SMA, as a study showed acids able to influence nervous system function were ...

had on a specific sensory molecule found on the tips of peripheral nerves. They placed central and peripheral nerve cells taken from rats together in lab dishes to mimic the cells' relationship to ...

A USC research team discovered that a single genetic signal may be preventing both hearing and vision cells from repairing themselves. By turning off this signal in mice, they triggered cell growth in ...

MRI scans suggest runners’ brains might use the fatty substance myelin as fuel. The finding could lead to treatments for ...

sensory information, emotions and reasoning—were less likely to be affected by tau.” Interestingly, the researchers also discovered that oligodendrocytes, brain cells that help insulate nerve fibers, ...

The research showed that up to 50 percent of the motor and sensory nerve cell death could be prevented in mice with sciatic nerve injury and researchers feel they are on their way to developing a ...

For example, sensory cells in the skin respond to the pressure ... Dopamine receptors bind dopamine, insulin receptors bind insulin, nerve growth factor receptors bind nerve growth factor, and ...

The same genes could hold the key to regenerating cells in the ear and eye, according to a new mouse study from the USC Stem ...

Researchers have used genetic tools to investigate how specific nerve cells in the brain respond after a spinal cord injury.