The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. Most humans have long-lived infections in ...

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Neurosciences, a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche, in collaboration with ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Neurosciences, a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Neurosciences, a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Miguel Hernández ...

The results of this work reveal how an alternative splicing mechanism regulates an essential factor for neuronal identity.

Following the discovery of manganese conductance through calcium-permeable channels, MEMRI applications expanded to include functional imaging in the central nervous system (CNS) and other body ...

C. elegans nematodes. Image Queensland Brain Institute Researchers ... Caenorhabditis elegans is a widely used model organism in biology. With only 302 neurons, its nervous system is simple yet ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system (CNS ... allowed to dry overnight at room temperature and stored at 4°C. The C. elegans were induced ...

Studies of sickness-induced sleep have made use of a simple worm with a simple nervous system. In this worm, a single nerve cell releases chemicals that cause the worm to fall asleep in response to ...