Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
... brain, called the whitematter, which contains the nerve fibers that control brain functionssuch as walking...matter injury occurs during brain development when nerve fibersin the white matter are actively being wrapped in myelin, the insulationthat allows nerve fibe...deCODE discovers cause of major subtype of glaucoma
...glaucoma, all of which lead to damage in the optic nerve and progressive loss of vision. Exfoliation glaucoma is caused by the buildup of fibrous deposits on the surfaces on the front of the eye. Between 10-20% of people over the age of 60 are believed to have some degree of exfoliation syndrome, and perha...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...'t work for everyone, for example, if the auditory nerve is severely damaged. Lim and Anderson propose the ...to narrow in on genes affected in three peripheral nerve injury models of neuropathic pain. The most highly regulated were involved in the microglial complem...Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
...eam has developed a new technology for visualising nerve cell damage in the retina, known as Detection of A... the brains of Alzheimer's patients, also leads to nerve cell death in the retina. The research is published online today in the journal Proceedings of the N...How a pain in the neck could be bad for your blood pressure
... More research is now needed to see which sensory nerve fibres and precisely which cells are involved in the process. Amongst other things, the team would now like to know what other brain regions the neck muscle termination site connects to. They believe that there are many malfunctions associated with...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...like molecule to transform human muscle cells into nerve cells. Their report, scheduled for the August 8 is...h shows promise for repairing or replacing damaged nerve cells to treat such diseases. However, many barriers hinder efforts to move those therapies from la...Geisinger scientist seeks cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, creating device to find treatment
...s a fatal neurodegenerative condition that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. As many as 20,000 Americans suffer from ALS and about 5,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with the disease each year, according to the National Institutes of Health. Its an aging-related disease that has ...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
...he body to attack and destroy the insulation along nerve fibers. The consortium study, reported in NEJM, was co-led by researchers at UCSF and five other universities and medical centers in the United States and England. The team analyzed genomic information from 12,360 people and confirmed that immune ...First new multiple sclerosis gene found in 30 years
...th surrounding axons, the long spindly portions of nerve cells that carry messages from one cell to another. This sheath, known as myelin, acts much like the plastic coating insulating an electrical cord. For reasons that are not well understood, the bodys own immune system is believed to attack the myel...Nature's weapon against nerve agents
...protect soldiers against the effects of the deadly nerve agent sarin, reports Cath ODriscoll in the Society...ms resulting from exposure to the organophosphorus nerve agent. The study will be carried out by Israeli firm Braintact, and follows earlier unpublished w...After a decades-long search, scientists identify new genetic risk factors for multiple sclerosis
...tive sheath around axons the delicate cables that nerve cells use to connect with each other. Various immunosuppressant drugs can reduce symptoms and slow the disease's course, but most MS patients become increasingly disabled with time. The trigger for MS is unclear, though there's strong evidence for...Risk genes for multiple sclerosis uncovered
...he body to attack and destroy the insulation along nerve fibers. This study, which analyzed genomic information from 12,360 people, confirmed that immune system genes are altered in people diagnosed with MS, and pointed to potential mechanisms of the disease. The researchers gathered 931 sets of DNA samp...Nottingham biosciences million pound injection
...iver a cure to patients with bone, liver, heart or nerve tissue defects. Professor Kevin Shakesheff, Chief Scientific Officer at RegenTec, and Director of The Centre for Biomolecular Sciences at The University of Nottingham, said: The ability to inject these scaffold materials could significantly reduce ...Prenatal stress keeps infants, toddlers up at night, study says
...sol, may disrupt a childs formation of a bundle of nerve cells in the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus which act as a signaling system that tunes bodys internal clock. This signaling system helps to properly regulate daily rhythms of waking, sleeping, even hunger that is, if its formation has no...Report recommends off-site disposal of secondary waste
...id resulting from the chemical breakdown of the VX nerve agent. Excluding the hydrolysate and wastes that can be eliminated on-site, CMA estimates that there will be more than 10 million pounds of secondary wastes at the completion of the chemical weapons destruction operations. Spent activated carbon r...Scratch no more: Gene for itch sensation discovered
...or found in a very small population of spinal cord nerve cells where pain and itch signals are transmitted ...GRPR stood out because it is present in only a few nerve cells in the spinal cord known to relay pain and/or itch signals to the brain. So they began to stud...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... ATF3 constitutively in DRG neurons. After sciatic nerve crush, ATF3 transgenic mice displayed early nerve regeneration similar to wild-type (WT) mice after a preconditioning lesion. Preconditioned WT mice e...Drug protects brain cells in Huntington's disease model, researchers find
...locks the action of dopamine, a compound that some nerve cells use to signal others. TBZ is approved for us...in regions. The striatum is primarily made up of nerve cells called medium spiny neurons, which undergo widespread death in Huntingtons. One major input to...Scientists a step closer to understanding how anaesthetics work in the brain
...ding perception of pain - involves neurons sending nerve impulses to other neurons. In order for this to happen, the stabilising action of the potassium channel has to be overcome. Earlier studies on great pond snails by the same team identified that anaesthetics seemed to selectively enhance the regulatin......rosis (MS), the myelin that surrounds the axons of nerve cells is attacked by the bodys own T cells, resulting in slowed and disrupted nerve impulses and, ultimately, axon loss. Myelin basic protein (MBP) is a major component of the myelin s...