SSS 2010-05-06
时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(五)月
The big dream for neuroscientists is to be able to watch our brain cells in action, in real time.
Well, new research has maybe found the most promising 1 tool yet—a technique to watch individual neurons light up in response to a stimulus 2, like flipping 3 on a light switch.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute inserted a light-sensitive protein into a lab mouse. When a neuron fires, calcium 4 ions flood through special cell channels. And when this light-sensitive protein binds 5 to calcium, it radiates yellow light. So when the neuron fires it glows yellow.
When scientists shot a puff 6 of air at the mouse’s whiskers, the brain cells in the sensory 7 areas of the cortex glowed yellow. They watch this via thin glass fibers 8 inserted into that brain region.
With this technique scientists now have a way to watch single cell activity in many different regions of the brain at once.
The hope is to investigate how the brain forms and loses neural 9 connections during life experiences and when suffering from illnesses such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and schizophrenia.
—Christie Nicholson
- The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
- We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
- Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
- Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
- We need calcium to make bones.我们需要钙来壮骨。
- Calcium is found most abundantly in milk.奶含钙最丰富。
- Frost binds the soil. 霜使土壤凝结。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Stones and cement binds strongly. 石头和水泥凝固得很牢。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He took a puff at his cigarette.他吸了一口香烟。
- They tried their best to puff the book they published.他们尽力吹捧他们出版的书。
- Human powers of sensory discrimination are limited.人类感官分辨能力有限。
- The sensory system may undergo long-term adaptation in alien environments.感觉系统对陌生的环境可能经过长时期才能适应。
- Thesolution of collagen-PVA was wet spined with the sodium sulfate as coagulant and collagen-PVA composite fibers were prepared. 在此基础上,以硫酸钠为凝固剂,对胶原-PVA共混溶液进行湿法纺丝,制备了胶原-PVA复合纤维。
- Sympathetic fibers are distributed to all regions of the heart. 交感神经纤维分布于心脏的所有部分。