Sentences with phrase «adult brain tissue»

The Zika virus can cross the blood - brain barrier, and could target cancer cells, sparing normal adult brain tissue and opening a potential new way to attack the disease.

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Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Last year she and her colleagues linked the fMRI results to genetics in the brain tissue of six adults.

A multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Sanders - Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky have identified an interesting connection between the health of the brain tissue that supports cognitive functioning and the presence of dementia in adults with Down syndrome.

Normally, adult stem cells can only morph into the type of tissue in which they reside, such as blood, brain or muscle.

And resistance training, building muscle strength using external resistance, has been shown to not only improve memory and executive function in older adults, but to also maintain connective brain tissue.

Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence that disruptions in the movement of cellular materials in and out of a cell's control center — the nucleus — appear to be a direct cause of brain cell death in Huntington's disease, an inherited adult neurodegenerative disorder.

While the team doesn't know the function of those Neandertal gene variants, it began to search for their influence by examining brain tissue from the prefrontal cortex of 14 adults of European, African, and Asian descent, as well as 14 chimpanzees.

To identify the molecular mechanisms of neural stem cell plasticity in adult zebrafish brain after various types of tissue damage or physiological stimulations

Nakabayashi, Monk, and collaborators studied methylation patterns in adult and umbilical blood and placenta cells from healthy volunteers; brain tissue from a brain bank; and a cultured liver cell line.

In cases of Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's or other neurodegenerative disease, adult stem cells can slow the degenerative progression of your symptoms while restoring blood flow to the brain and repairing or replacing damaged tissue.

Harnessing the powerful healing properties of adult stem cells found in your own fat tissue, Okyanos Cell Therapy offers new hope for this neurodegenerative condition by enabling brain and nerve cell repair for the chance at an improved quality of life.

Adult stem cell therapy can slow the degenerative progression of your symptoms while repairing or replacing damaged neurons and brain tissue.

Neural stem cells are found in adult or fetal brain and spinal cord or derived from embryonic stem cells, which have the capacity to become any cell type in the body, or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, tissue - specific cells that are reprogrammed in the lab to behave like embryonic stem cells.

Utilizing the powerful healing cells found in fat tissue, adult stem cell therapy for stroke offers a new approach by opening the door to brain repair for the chance at improved function, symptoms and quality of life.

For human tissue regeneration to become a viable therapy for conditions like neurodegeneration or diabetes, clinicians will likely need to artificially manipulate factors that return adult brain or pancreatic cells to a cellular «Tir Nan Og» to restore adult cell types.

Unfortunately, the number of adult stem cells present in local areas of the body vary greatly in number and most researchers agree that there are simply not enough stem cells «at the ready» within brain tissue to heal itself in the same way the skin does after a cut.

Upon injury, the regeneration of the adult axolotl brain rebuilds neuronal diversity, but alters the original long - distance circuitry and tissue architecture.

Briefly, whole hemispheres of WT adult (4 mo) or WT young (P16 — P20) mouse brains were frozen in molds filled with optimum cutting temperature (OCT) embedding matrix (Tissue - Tek).

Lavender essential oil was shown to chemically modulate serotonin transporters in the brain tissue of adult male rats in recent research.

«While an adult human brain typically weighs only about 2 % of the body weight, a resting brain consumes more than 20 % of all the oxygen, thus indicating a 10-fold greater energy requirement than other tissues.

The age - related decline in growth hormone and associated IGF - 1 has been linked to age - related muscle atrophy, increased adipose tissue, and neuronal dysfunction.2, 9 In fact, growth hormone replacement therapy in elderly men has been shown to increase lean body mass.9 Growth hormone therapy (1 mg / day — for 5 months) has also been used to improve cognitive function in healthy adults and adults with mild cognitive impairment.10 While only modest amounts of growth hormone cross the blood - brain barrier, IGF - 1, which is actually responsible for the cognitive benefits, gets across just fine.

The virus attacks the cells that are dividing most rapidly — in adults this is gut tissue, in the fetus the brain cells are affected.