memory

Replication

...ng replication one may find in distributed shared memory systems, where it may happened that many nodes of the system share the same page of the memory - which usually means, that each node have separate copy (replica) of this page. In statistics r...

Prion

... . Prions have also been speculatively linked to memory [2] and cellular differentiation , the process by which stem cells take on specialized functions (such as muscle or blood cells). Yeast Prions In 1965 , Brian Cox, a geneticist working with the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , des...

Phylogenetics

...ences. See also Phylogeny , Phylogenetic memory Molecular phylogeny Bioinformatics...

Olfaction

.... Odor information is easily stored in long term memory and has strong connections to emotional memory . This is possibly due to the olfactory system's close anatomical ties to the limbic system and h...

Muscle

...glia . Afferent leg Sometimes known as muscle memory , the sense of where our bodies are in space is called proprioception , the perception of body awareness. More easily demonstrated than explained, proprioception is the "unconscious" awareness of where the various regions of the body are located a...

Magnetic resonance imaging

... received, the signals are recorded in a temporary memory termed K-space ; this is the spatial frequency weighting in two or three dimensions of a real space object as sampled by MRI. The information is subsequently inverse Fourier transformed by a computer into real space to obtain the desired image. ...

Memory B cell

...athogen the body has already encountered invades, memory B cells can recognize the pathogen and start to di... Quickly, they form a new generation of cells, and memory cells. The new generation kills off the pathogen so quickly the body does not become noticeably ill....

Memory

... . There are multiple types of classifications for memory based on duration, nature and retrieval of perceiv...ion 4 Memory disorders 5 The physiology of memory 6 Related topics 7 External links Classification by duration A basic and generally ...

Long-term potentiation

...and is commonly regarded as the cellular basis of memory . Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") ...uses the man to be startled. These theories about memory formation were unfortunately foresighted. Neuroscientists were simply not yet equipped with the neur...

Limbic system

..., fear , pleasure and also in the formation of memory . The limbic system affects the endocrine system ...pocampus : involved in the formation of long-term memory amygdala : involved in aggression and fear cingulate gyrus (the circular shape of the cingul...

Immune system

...ntigen /antigenic determinant / epitope / hapten / memory cell autoimmune disorders CD4 receptor /CD8 receptor / perforin / apoptosis /clonal selection immunosuppression immunosuppressive drug immunotherapy lymphatic system / lymphocyte macrophage major histocompatibility comp...

Helper T cell

... and differentiates into activated T H cells and memory T H cells. Activated T H cells secrete cytokines , proteins or peptides that stimulate other lymphocytes ; the most common is interleukin-2 (IL-2), which is a potent T cell growth factor. Activated, proliferating T H cells can differ...

Down syndrome

...nal cortex and the subiculum , both critical for memory consolidation , are among the first affected by the damage. A gradual decrease in the number of nerve cells throughout the cortex follows. A few years ago, Johns Hopkins scientists created a genetically engineered mouse called Ts65Dn (segmenta...

Brain

...brain are responsible for cognition , emotion , memory , motor learning and other sorts of learning . ...ometimes causing major deficits in intelligence , memory and control of the body. Head trauma, caused by automobile accidents or other blows to the skull, is...

Antibody

...nt of differentiated B-lymphocytes into plasma and memory cells. IgE IgE is a monomeric immunoglobulin with the heavy chain ε. It contains a lot of carbon hydrates. Its molecular mass is 190 kD. It can be found on the surface of the plasma membrane of basophils and mast cells of connectiv...

Antibiotic

...fe-threatening bacterial infections will be just a memory of a golden era. Another example of selection is Staphylococcus aureus , which could be treated successfully with penicillin in the 1940s and 1950s. At present, nearly all strains are resistant to penicillin , and many are resistant to nafcill...