Corpus in Biological News

Influence of sex and handedness on brain is similar in capuchin monkeys and humans

... organization of the brain, specifically in the corpus callosum, the region that connects the two ... handedness influences on the relative size of the corpus callosum. The researchers contribution appears ... of the brain to determine the size of their corpus callosum, which is the major white matter tract ...

Tummy troubles -- gastrin key in bacterial-induced stomach cancer

... "Gastrin is an essential cofactor for Helicobacter -associated gastric corpus carcinogenesis in C57BL/6 mice," appears in the July 2009 issue of The ... in mice with high levels of gastrin resulted in cancer of the gastric corpus (main body of the stomach), whereas infection in gastrin-deficient mice ...

Even low levels of air pollution may pose stroke risk

... Researchers looked at data from the Brain Attack Surveillance in corpus Christi Project, a population-based stroke surveillance project designed ... matter and ozone were available from a centrally located monitor in corpus Christi, Tex., located upwind of the local industrial facilities. The ...

Underwater microscope helps prevent shellfish poisoning along Gulf Coast of Texas

... On March 8, the Texas Department of State Health Services closed Aransas, corpus Christi, and Copano bays to shellfish harvesting and recalled Texas ... most shellfishing areas had been re-opened, and the Aransas, Copano, and corpus Christi were expected to re-open in a matter of days. The bloom and ...

Genetic contributions to human brain morphology and intelligence

... connecting white matter of the superior occipitofrontal fascicle, and the corpus callosum [Hulshoff Pol et al., 2006]. For the genetic analyses, structural ... influence white matter density of the superior occipitofrontal fascicle, corpus callosum, optic radiation, and corticospinal tract, as well as gray matter ...

Bays on US Gulf Coast vulnerable to flooding

... from an analysis of 30 years of data from hundreds of bayfloor sediment samples, radiocarbon tests and seismic surveys from Galveston, Matagorda and corpus Christi bays in Texas, Mobile Bay in Alabama, Calcasieu Bay in Louisiana and Sabine Lake on the Texas-Louisiana border. "There is no question that ...

New book brings upper US Gulf Coast climate change and sea-level rise into focus

... This study of seven Gulf Coast estuaries (Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, Weeks Bay, Calcasieu Lake, Sabine Lake, Galveston Bay, Matagorda Bay, and corpus Christi Bay) examines past environmental response to changes in the rate of sea-level rise and climate change of similar magnitude as those predicted ...

Queensland scientists identify molecule that links both sides of the brain

... provided new clues regarding development of the corpus callosum, the main connecting nerve tract that ... a molecule that helps control development of the corpus callosum. The corpus callosum has millions of individual nerve fibres. ...

Carnegie Mellon researchers discover key deficiencies in brains of people with autism

... brain areas in people with autism, as well as smaller size of the corpus callosum, the white matter that acts as cables to wire the parts of the ... other portions of the brain. They have discovered that key portions of the corpus callosum seem to play a role in the limitation on synchronization. In ...

The lopsided brain: Attention bias is shared by humans and birds

... spatial pseudoneglect is somewhat surprising, given that birds lack a corpus collosum, the structure in human brains that is thought to facilitate ... between the two hemispheres. In the past, such communication via the corpus collosum has been thought to form the basis for asymmetries in human ...

Brain's white matter -- More 'talkative' than once thought

... learn more about OPCs that reside in the brain’s white matter, the Johns Hopkins researchers measured activity from individual precursor cells in the corpus callosum, a region of white matter that connects the two brain hemispheres. To their surprise, OPCs were found to have electrical signals produced by ...

Post oak grasshoppers emerging

... that chewed on trees." Five years ago, he said, the grasshoppers' numbers started growing, and last year, exploded in areas from Dallas to near corpus Christi. "We don't know a whole lot about them," Jackman said. Terry Junek, a research assistant in one of the Texas A&M University ...

Life in the extreme

... a yet unidentified source. But life in these alien environments can also exist without symbionts as Ian MacDonald from Texas A&M University, corpus Christi US has demonstrated. His observations of the fauna around coastal margin hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico have revealed a habitat rich ...

Study of gene transfer for erectile dysfunction shows promise

... highest doses, men reported highly significant improvements in erectile function. The DNA segments ?mixed into plasma ?were injected into the corpus cavernosum, expandable tissue along the length of the penis that fills with blood during erection. A variety of clinical and laboratory tests were ...

New tool tracks brain development in babies

... the images obtained from the normal infants. The fiber pattern of the brain's white matter was disturbed in several areas of the brain, including the corpus callosum, which allows communication between the two hemispheres of the brain, and, most significantly, the corona radiata, which is associated with ...

MIT research holds promise for Huntington's treatment

... In Parkinson's disease, the mutant proteins destroy dopamine-producing cells in the substantia nigra. Normally, the dopamine transmits signals to the corpus striatum, allowing muscles to make smooth, controlled movements. When those dopamine-producing cells die, Parkinson's patients exhibit the tremors ...