Sentence examples for brain cell membranes from inspiring English sources
Normally, brain cell membranes are semifluid and are very sensitive to the effects of alcohol.
They also found that when rats were made alcoholic, the rats protected themselves by adapting and making their brain cell membranes stiffer.
The researchers also found that much less alcohol - about one-third as much - dissolves into the brain cell membranes of chronic alcoholic rats than those of normal rats.
The researchers also exposed brain cell membranes to halothane and found that the common anesthetic physically disrupts the structure of the membranes and then their function in the same manner as alcohol.
In the rat experiments, Dr. Emanuel Rubin, Dr. Hagai Rottenberg and Dr. Alan Waring of Hahnemann Medical College separated the components of brain cell membranes and studied alcohol's effects on the components in test tube experiments.
The three nutrients in his dietary cocktail — uridine, choline and the omega-3 fatty acid DHA (all normally present in breast milk) — are precursors to the fatty molecules that make up brain cell membranes, which form synapses.
In addition, ochratoxin A is connected with an impairment in the structure and function of brain cell membrane [ 31].
We report here the identification of the complete mRNA and of the gene, the product of which was termed "brain cell membrane protein 1" (BCMP1).
As these are integral membrane proteins, and as the mRNA encoding the novel protein was predominantly found in brain, the newly identified protein was termed "brain cell membrane protein 1" (BCMP1).
We have described here the identification of the gene encoding a novel protein, called Brain Cell Membrane Protein 1 (BCMP1), which belongs to the large family of four-transmembrane proteins and appears to be highly expressed in the brain.
The reason, according to the theory, is that only about a third as much of the alcohol in the blood of chronic alcoholics dissolves into the brain-cell membranes in comparison with nonalcoholics.
