Sentences with phrase «as brain tissue»

That is because as brain tissue is slowly lost, mental capacity is lost as well (ie cognitive dysfunction).

Using these techniques, scientists have found progressive changes in the HD brain as time goes on, including shrinkage of specific structures, and the growth of the ventricles as the brain tissue around them degenerates.

Not exact matches

Salk Institute scientists say they have developed a superior way of cultivating human brain tissue, guiding research for treating neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.

The imbroglio reached its apex during the second Republican presidential debate, when Carly Fiorina decried the harvesting of a brain from an intact, extracted fetus whose heart had restarted — described on camera by a former tissue procurement technician — as an issue that defines «the character of our nation.»

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

If we could but restore or bring about the normal functioning of brain cells and nerve tissues, as well as their own subsidiary chemical activity in such cases, then mental life would come flooding back in fullness and richness.

The candida actually binds with the mercury in the body, and when that candida dies off it causes the mercury to redistribute into organs and tissues (such as the brain).

Finally, cacao may actually have neuroprotective effects as the powerful catechin compounds localize in brain tissues and help mitigate the extremely deleterious effects of neuroinflammation.

«Because of the long half - life of these compounds and some of their metabolites, nursing infants may have measurable amounts in their plasma and tissues, such as the brain,» according to the Committee on Drugs.

However, the difference in brain tissue isn't permanent and as children with the gene grow up, the tissue thickens and their ADHD symptoms improve.

For example, the half - life (time to reduce drug blood levels by half) for the local anesthetic bupivacaine (Marcaine) is 8.1 hours in the newborn, compared to 2.7 hours in the mother.82 Also, drug blood levels may not accurately reflect the baby's toxic load because drugs may be taken up from the blood and stored in newborn tissues such as brain and liver, 83 from where they are more slowly released.84

More work has to be done on humans as many of the results showed up in mice samples, however in studying the human brains of women who had AD scientists found significantly less male fetal tissue in their brains as in the same of women who did not have AD.

We already know about Mom's «baby brain» and this is quite literal as fetal tissue has been found in Moms» brains, and can even be detected in autopsies at the end of life.

It takes between 90 and 120 minutes for a child to move through one entire sleep cycle — which brings benefits such as: stabilizing mood, increasing alertness, improving motor skills, enhancing brain connections, sharpening visual and perceptual skills, repairing bones, tissue and muscles, boosting the immune system, regulating appetite and releasing bottled up tension and stress.

In rare cases, vomiting can be a symptom of a serious condition, such as a blockage of the digestive tract (pyloric stenosis), an infection (meningitis) of the fluid (cerebrospinal fluid) and tissues (meninges) that surround the brain and spinal cord, or Reye syndrome.

But when it runs amok, as it does in schizophrenia, the process destroys healthy brain tissue.

As another crucial part of the new study on Internet addiction, the research team zeroed in on tissue deep in the brain called white matter, which links together its various regions.

WHITE MAGIC Targeting parts of the brain's white matter, the tissue that connects different brain regions (shown), may be key to whether stimulating the brain with electricity will work as a treatment for memory problems and other ills.

Because of its ability to finely tune the signals it generates, an MRI can also show softer, more intertwined tissues — such as in the brain, spinal cord and musculoskeletal system — in rich detail.

Wade recalls that they removed the top of one of the heads before they inserted the brain whisk — an eight - inch - long hooked bronze tool half as thick as a pencil — and were able to observe the path the liquefied tissue took as it churned inside the skull.

In the most famous example of cannibalism - related disease transmission, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of their deceased kin — kin who had been infected by kuru, an incurable and highly transmissible neurological disease.

Electrical signals between neurons generate electric fields that radiate out of brain tissue as electrical waves that can be picked up by electrodes touching a person's scalp.

Also known as corpse wax, it effectively preserved the shape of the soft brain tissue (HOMO — Journal of Comparative Human Biology, doi.org/nz6).

The brain perceives the micrometastatic invasion as tissue damage, activating inflammation — its natural defense mechanism.

It is critical for physicians to monitor these secondary tissue damages, as they are frequently the origin of significant long - term effects, including brain damage, cognitive deficits, psychosocial / behavioral / emotional changes, bodily damage and biochemical changes at the cellular level.

Now, researchers in The Netherlands have coupled machine learning methods with a special MRI technique that measures the perfusion, or tissue absorption rate, of blood throughout the brain to detect early forms of dementia, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

Dr Brastianos will say: «When brain metastasis tissue is available as part of clinical care, we are suggesting sequencing and analysis of that sample.

For instance, magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a neuroimaging technique used to map brain activity and trace pathological abnormalities, such as epileptic tissue.

As brain structures grow and mature, water diffusion in the gray matter and white matter also changes in recognizable patterns, allowing researchers to track how the tissue is developing, and at what rate, he said.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

Spinal implants have suffered similar problems as those in the brain — they tend to abrade tissue, causing inflammation and ultimately rejection by the body.

As well as raising IQ by 1.29, it increases the overall volume of the brain — but only by 0.58 per cent of average brain size, adding around 9 cubic centimetres of tissuAs well as raising IQ by 1.29, it increases the overall volume of the brain — but only by 0.58 per cent of average brain size, adding around 9 cubic centimetres of tissuas raising IQ by 1.29, it increases the overall volume of the brain — but only by 0.58 per cent of average brain size, adding around 9 cubic centimetres of tissue.

While researching Del - 1 in other tissues, such as gums and lungs, Hajishengallis and Chavakis found that Del - 1 was also highly expressed in the brain.

They found that the horse tissue contained proteins that are commonly seen in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease — such as the build - up of amyloid protein.

These show that, like all living birds, they had an extremely dense area of brain tissue known as the wulst.

A team of multidisciplinary researchers with expertise spanning biotechnology, information technology, and medicine have used a combination of several «omics technologies to map proteins down to the single cell level, showing both proteins restricted to certain tissues — such as the brain, heart, or liver — and those present in all tissues.

It also allows «lineage tracing,» showing when during brain development the mutations arise and how they spread through brain tissue as the mutated cells grow, replicate and migrate, carrying the mutation with them.

The researchers found severed axons in regions with inflammation characteristic of the disease — in several cases, more than 10,000 times as many cut axons as in brain tissue from non-MS corpses.

The result, says Flajolet, is a brain that is hard and transparent, almost «like glass,» which allowed the researchers to see the amyloid plaques in full detail and in 3D, in a full mouse brain hemisphere, as well as in small blocks of human brain tissue.

It is expected to have implications for other tissue - specific nuclear membrane conditions, such as fat, skin, bone and brain diseases, cardiomyopathy and an ageing disease known as progeria.

Various reports in recent years have claimed that stem cells from one tissue — for example, blood — can mature into other tissues such as muscle or brain.

In any case, the 17 ongoing AAV vector trials should be safer because they target other tissues, such as brain and retina, Laipis and others say.

Creating or regenerating tissues such as those found in the brain, which is extremely complex and poorly understood, will take an enormous amount of research.

Experiments were then performed on real brain tissue in the Blue Brain's wet lab in Lausanne confirming that the earlier discoveries in the virtual tissue are biologically relevant and also suggesting that the brain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possbrain tissue in the Blue Brain's wet lab in Lausanne confirming that the earlier discoveries in the virtual tissue are biologically relevant and also suggesting that the brain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possBrain's wet lab in Lausanne confirming that the earlier discoveries in the virtual tissue are biologically relevant and also suggesting that the brain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possbrain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possible.

During development, as an embryo forms differentiated tissues, liver cells, brain cells, muscle cells, the cells in those tissues begin to allow for the selective expression of genes contained in those same 3 billion nucleotides.

The visceral exploration of living brain tissue is, in many cases, still the best way to unravel cognitive functions as diverse as language, memory, vision, and movement.

When the researchers presented the virtual brain tissue with a stimulus, cliques of progressively higher dimensions assembled momentarily to enclose high - dimensional holes, that the researchers refer to as cavities.

Researchers most commonly study the effect of antidepressants using a technique known as microdialysis, in which they insert a probe into the brain to take tiny chemical samples from the tissue.

The researchers analyzed gene activity and degradation in 36 different kinds of human tissue, such as the brain, skin and lungs.

Future studies will focus on using these nanobowls to deliver anle138b to the brain, as well as other diseased tissues and organs affected by toxic amyloid - beta ion channels.