What you need is a nervous system flexible enough to cope ... to muster an adaptive response to a deadly infection. When C. elegans worms fed on infectious Pseudomonas bacteria that made them ...

On Thursday April 1, the Department of Biology hosted Niels Ringstad, professor in the Department of Cell Biology at the New ...

Brain aging may lead to a decline in immune system response and hinder the removal of aged cells. The accumulation of these ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

These findings suggest that the immune and nervous systems are tightly ... work showing that in the worm C. elegans, IL-17 has no role in the immune system but instead acts on neurons.

Summary: New research reveals how the simple nervous system of C. elegans worms can dramatically reconfigure itself to survive infection. When exposed to harmful bacteria, the worms adapted by ...

These findings suggest that the immune and nervous systems are tightly interconnected ... That idea is consistent with previous work showing that in the worm C. elegans, IL-17 has no role in the ...

[4] Lettre and Hengartner (2006) Developmental apoptosis in C. elegans: a complex CEDnario ... [37] Bredesen, Rao, and Mehlen (2006) Cell death in the nervous system. Nature, 7113, 796-802. [38] ...