In their new study, the researchers showed that EC cells integrate information about chemical irritants, bacterial compounds, and stress hormones in the gut, then use serotonin to pass that ...

The mature cells, even in the nervous system, can give rise to these cancers." In 1990 two teams—one led by former U-M geneticist Francis Collins—discovered that NF1 is caused by one enormous ...

The findings, published in the journal Stem Cell Reports, pave the way for using stem cells to understand and treat a range of diseases linked to the enteric nervous system—which is embedded in ...

A study led by Cambridge researchers has shed light on how neural stem cell grafts could help restore myelin in the central ...

The results showed that cells in the inner ear, which are crucial for hearing, develop from two main types of stem cells. This knowledge could lead to new treatments for hearing loss.

Stem cells in the nervous system are self-renewing cells that have the capacity to produce all, or a restricted set of, the neural cell types (neurons and glia) in the nervous system.

Fainzilber’s lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science discovered that a family of hundreds of RNA molecules with no known physiological function is essential to nerve regeneration. Remarkably, the ...

Cells found lurking in Spongilla lacustris (shown), a freshwater sponge that grows in lakes in the Northern Hemisphere, could offer clues to how nervous systems evolved. Kirt L. Onthank/Wikimedia ...

The discovery of sympathetic nervous system cells in lampreys draws a closer tie between the animal and complex vertebrates — such as humans. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...

Your nervous system uses billions of tiny, connected nerve cells called neurons to send the messages, which are electrical and chemical signals that tell your body what to do. Your nervous system ...

When a person thinks, speaks, eats, walks, or just sits comfortably with all bodily systems functioning normally, the billions of cells that make up the brain and the rest of the nervous system ...

Cells that alert nervous system to intestinal trouble could provide new target for gastrointestinal treatments Date: June 22, 2017 Source: University of California - San Francisco ...