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... fibres meet with another nerve cell type called the Purkinje cell, which is also present in the cerebellum. Nerve impulses pass via ... nerve fibre to another through synapses. The granule cell-Purkinje cell synapse, in particular, is where the regeneration occurs. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2016 - 12:19pm - 0 attachments

“I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand, Walkin' through the streets of Soho in the rain, He was lookin' for the place called Lee Ho Fooks, Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein.” Aaahoo! …." Warren Ze ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Aug 12 2015 - 10:41am - 0 attachments

... is responsible for the control of body movements and Purkinje neurons, in the cerebellum, have a disproportionally pivotal place in ... alcohol's effect upon the firing pattern of cerebellar Purkinje neurons. However, these results are hard to understand with different ...

Article - Michael Forrest - May 4 2015 - 9:52am - 0 attachments

... University College London Purkinje cell and dendritic tree, rat cerebellar cortex, SEM Michael ... Roth/UCL This is an image of a single Purkinje cell in the cerebellum captured using a focused ion beam scanning ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 9 2015 - 7:00pm - 0 attachments

... disease that predominantly affects neurons called Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, the region of the brain that controls ... mutations in the ataxin-2 gene, but the exact mechanism of Purkinje cell degeneration is not well understood," says Stefan-M. Pulst, MD, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2009 - 7:23pm - 0 attachments

... “Was that a vision? What happened to me?” PURKINJE PATTERNS According to Dominic ffytche of the Institute of ... Gysin’s hallucinations were quite similar to what Jan Purkinje (1787-1869), the father of contemporary neuroscience , ... becomes more complex and fills the whole visual field. (Purkinje, 1819) When Purkinje moved his fingers, he simulated an effect ...

Article - Jen Palmares Meadows - Nov 19 2008 - 3:38pm - 0 attachments

... channels, known as TASK channels, that lead into the Purkinje cells. The study, "Acid Sensitive Channel Inhibition Prevents Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Cerebellar Purkinje Cell Loss," was carried out by Jayanth Ramadoss, Emilie R. Lunde, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2008 - 11:47pm - 0 attachments

... Sliced and diced. Compared to healthy mouse Purkinje cells (left), those lacking the Dicer gene, which is required for ... in function, resulting in death of the neurons, known as Purkinje cells. Because this brain area helps control motor function, mice ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2007 - 12:12pm - 1 attachment

... navigation system on particular types of neurons, called Purkinje cells, in a region of the cerebellum known to receive signals from the ... the researchers measured the electrical activity of these Purkinje cells in monkeys as the animals’ heads were maneuvered through a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2007 - 4:28pm - 0 attachments

... is needed for the production and differentiation of Purkinje neurons, the most important cells in the cerebellum"; and second, ... of this protein, the progenitor cells that should produce Purkinje neurons do not differentiate correctly and instead produce a different ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2007 - 2:21pm - 0 attachments