{"id":30191,"date":"2025-02-18T01:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30191"},"modified":"2025-04-10T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:14:21","slug":"ovoid-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ovoid-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovoid Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ovoid Cells Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory and named \u201covoid cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>About Ovoid Cells<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These cells, named for the <strong>distinct egg-like shape<\/strong> of their cell bodies, are present in relatively small numbers within the <strong>hippocampus <\/strong>of <strong>humans, mice, and other animals<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These are <strong>highly specialized neurons<\/strong> which get activated each time when we encounter something new.<\/li>\n<li>It triggers a process that stores those objects in memory and allows us to recognize them months potentially even years later.<\/li>\n<li>They are quite distinct from other neurons at a cellular and functional level, and in terms of their neural circuitry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> This discovery provides key insights into how memories form and could aid in the <strong>treatment of brain conditions<\/strong> related to object recognition, such as <strong>Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and epilepsy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are Neurons?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as a nerve cell, is a <strong>specialized cell in the nervous system<\/strong> that is responsible for transmitting information through electrical and chemical signals.<\/li>\n<li>Neurons are the basic building blocks of the nervous system and play a crucial role in processing and transmitting information within the body.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ovoid Cells FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It is a brain condition that causes a progressive decline in memory, thinking, learning, and organizing skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>What is the main function of the hippocampus?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Its largest job is to hold short-term memories and transfer them to long-term storage in our brains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> Where is the location of the hippocampus?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It is located in the inner (medial) region of the temporal lobe<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/researchers-discover-new-type-of-brain-cells-that-allow-you-to-remember-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DD News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ovoid cells highly specialized neurons which get activated each time when we encounter something new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}