How a pain in the neck could be bad for your blood pressure
...such as from lying down to standing up. Where such signalling fails, we can suffer problems with balance and blood pressure. The findings offer a clear rationale for manipulative treatments: Reports from chiropractic journals say that manipulating the neck region helps to reduce blood pressure in some people...A new plant-bacterial symbiotic mechanism promising
... hairs. The finding raises the question as to what signalling pathway Bradyrhizodium might use to gain entry to the plant and set off nodulation. The first observation was that the bacteria did not penetrate the roots of its host-plant by the hairs. It took advantage of crack zones comparable with wound areas....How plants learned to respond to changing environments
...ent is not favourable. This involves many complex signalling pathways which are integrated by the plant growth ...y looking at the genes involved in the gibberellin signalling pathway in a wide range of plants. They discovered that it was not until the flowering plants evolv...Study provides new data about the laws governing embryo development in organisms
... that the information must pass along a pathway of signalling molecules. These pathways have been conserved acro...rtebrate central nervous system, and the genes and signalling pathways involved are conserved in both Drosophila and vertebrate species. Although biologists alr...Link between immune system and mammary gland could shed new light on breast cancer
...ncer as cells that respond incorrectly to cytokine signalling can grow out of control and become cancerous. Wh...nstrate the role of the Type 2 cytokines. When the signalling molecules were not present, production of milk producing cells was vastly reduced. Dr Walid Khaled...A new system for collaboration in cell communication
... Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have identified a new signalling mechanism among cells in the fruit fly, Drosophila...imulating signal production (producing more of the signalling molecule) created problems in the receptor cell, causing it to develop incorrectly. Researchers m...On the defense: Conserved features of plant innate immunity
...innate immunity at the level of both receptors and signalling intermediates; the complex we describe, essential for plant innate immunity, may be another example of this."......"This paper demonstrates that a particular protein signalling molecule (the NMDA receptor) in a particular network of brain neurons (the dentate granule cells of the hippocampus) is essential for these rapid discrimination processes, hopefully paving the way for therapies targeting learning and behavioural diso...A new plant-bacterial symbiotic mechanism promising for crop applications
...hairs. The finding raises the question as to what signalling pathway Bradyrhizodium might use to gain entry to the plant and set off nodulation. The first observation was that the bacteria did not penetrate the roots of its host-plant by the hairs. It took advantage of crack zones comparable with wound areas....Evolutionary relevance of retinoic acid-induced craniofacial malformations
... hypothesis that modulation of a common regulatory signalling mechanism could be at the origin of changes in jaw structures between species. The implications of these findings go much beyond the original scope of this study and will have a major impact on developmental biology and evolutionary biology as they...New insights into the neural basis of anxiety
...wrongly connected cells in their brains. Serotonin signalling is very important for brain development and if the...r of mice later on in life. "In humans serotonin signalling has been implicated in disorders including depression and anxiety and like our mice patients sufferi...When the villain becomes your friend: The strange tale of muscle lactate
...ions, lactic acid and adrenaline on the electrical signalling system that serves to forward the activating signa...s seen during intense exercise, the ability of the signalling system to forward electrical signals was profoundly reduced and the muscle became paralysed. If, how...Research identifies protein that signals flowering in squash plants
...monitoring of long-distance transport of potential signalling compounds in plants. Some of the principal factors associated with the photoperiodic induction of flowering are proteins known as CONSTANS (CO) and FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT). CO does not appear to travel long distances through the phloem, but rather, it...Study of damaged gene gives insight into causes of mental illness
... The gene was also found to be essential for brain signalling and plays a key role in learning, memory and mood. To further their findings, experts looked at the behaviour of mice with two types of damage in the gene. The results suggest that one responded better to antipsychotics, used to treat schizophrenia...Krber Prize to ETH Zurich Professor Seeberger
...e glycans to recognize one another and to exchange signalling molecules. As well, bacteria, viruses and fungi use the glycans to locate specific cells in the body in order to attack them: cancer-producing helicobacter bacteria attach themselves to the glycans in the gastric mucous membrane; flu viruses bind to ...Difficult births in obese women due to uterus failure
...loodstream. This could disrupt cell membranes and signalling pathways, including calcium entry. We will be investigating this further in future studies." Dr Siobhan Quenby from the University of Liverpool's Obstetrics department commented: "In the meantime it is vital pre-pregnancy advice and counselling is av...New evidence of 'human' culture among primates
...s that Capuchin monkeys in Brazil bang stones as a signalling device to ward off potential predators. While not conclusive, his research adds to a mounting body of evidence that suggests other species have something approaching human culture. A strong case has already been made for great apes having a capaci...Drivers and passengers on the road to cancer
... involved in the Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor signalling pathway was hit much more than we expected, particularly in colorectal cancers." The team also found that the mutations carry important coded messages within them. The type of mutation found varies markedly between individual cancers, reflecting th......velopment, suggests that it is worth exploring the signalling pathways controlled by SHP in men suffering from fertility disorders. Puberty is the result of endocrine alterations programmed from the moment of sexual differentiation in the embryo and ftus. It is characterized by anatomical alterations: the ma......e field to consider the cellular autonomy and cell signalling of many other light-induced processes....