{"id":304753,"date":"2024-05-16T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/discovery-of-a-master-neuron-that-controls-movement-in-worms-has-implications-for-human-disease\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:47:00","slug":"discovery-of-a-master-neuron-that-controls-movement-in-worms-has-implications-for-human-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/discovery-of-a-master-neuron-that-controls-movement-in-worms-has-implications-for-human-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of a master neuron that controls movement in worms has implications for human disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AVA and AVB have distinct membrane potential ranges and dynamics. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.adk0002 Researchers at Sinai Health and the University of Toronto have uncovered a mechanism in the nervous system of the tiny roundworm C. elegans that could have significant implications for treating human diseases and advancing robotics. The study, led by Mei Zhen and colleagues at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, was published in the journal Science Advances and reveals the crucial role of a specific neuron called AVA in controlling the worm&#8217;s ability to shift between <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/discovery-of-a-master-neuron-that-controls-movement-in-worms-has-implications-for-human-disease\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AVA and AVB have distinct membrane potential ranges and dynamics. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.adk0002 Researchers at Sinai Health and the University of Toronto have uncovered a mechanism in the nervous system of the tiny roundworm C. elegans that could have significant implications for treating human diseases and advancing robotics. The study, led by <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/discovery-of-a-master-neuron-that-controls-movement-in-worms-has-implications-for-human-disease\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}