"neurons" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to nerve cells in the human body that transmit signals between different parts of the body. For example: "The neurons in my brain help to regulate my body's responses to the environment."
But the researchers found that iPSCs derived from the patients' were unable to generate cortical neurons, the cell type most affected by FTD.
Co-author Dr Catherine Verfaillie, from the University of Leuven in Belgium, said: "IPSC models can now be used to better understand dementia, and in particular frontotemporal dementia, and might lead to the development of drugs that can curtail or slow down the degeneration of cortical neurons".
DNN is a technology that is inspired by the functioning of neurons in the brain.
My memory was very good indeed as a youngster, though I lost the happy ability to remember, almost effortlessly, long lists of French and German vocabulary when I introduced my neurons to alcohol.
Andrew King, professor of neurophysiology at Oxford university, said the discovery that neurons in the hippocampus possess "place fields" that fire when an animal is in a particular part of its environment had "revolutionised our understanding of how the brain knows where we are and is able to navigate within our surroundings".
Alone this shows a link between the hippocampus and spatial memory, but with the knowledge of place cells this result helps explain what the neurons may be doing.
Inhibiting Wnt either with genetic correction or a drug compound restored the ability of the stem cells to convert into cortical neurons.
The aim was to recreate damaged neurons in the laboratory.
Cortical neurons are the cells responsible for most of the brain's complex higher activity enabling thought, perception and voluntary movement.
Treatment with a drug that suppressed the pathway, known as "Wnt", restored the ability of neurons affected by the disease to develop normally.
Crystals, the organisation of neurons in your brain, the ecosystem of the Amazon basin, and the English language are all examples of spontaneous order.
