Sentences with phrase «barrier around the brain»

Nasal mucosal grafting is a technique regularly used in the ENT field to reconstruct the barrier around the brain after surgery to the skull base.

When there is a lot of inflammation in the body, the protective barrier around the brain, called the blood - brain - barrier (BBB) can become over-permeable, allowing molecules into the brain that shouldn't be there.

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For the first time, scientists have temporarily disrupted the blood - brain barrier — the protective layer around the brain — to deliver chemotherapy to a brain tumour.

«The glucose gradient increases from within blood vessels into the brain, and that carries our particles toward the [blood — brain barrier],» he says, «and this gradient is much steeper around brain tumors.»

Their findings, published in Neurosurgery, lend hope to patients around the world with neurological conditions that are difficult to treat due to a barrier mechanism that prevents approximately 98 percent of drugs from reaching the brain and central nervous system.

According to the hypothesis, from researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center, hits to the head open up the blood brain barrier, and allow a brain protein called S100B to leak out into the blood and circulate around the body.

They have already used it to quash fears about TMS causing leakiness in the blood - brain barrier, a sort of safety fence around the brain that keeps out all but the smallest molecules.

When the researchers made tiny lesions in the brain with a laser, nearby microglia immediately extended new arms to create a barrier around the injury and began retracting arms on the opposite side, the team reports online 14 April in Science.

Fats play a vital role in maintaining cell membranes across multiple body systems, by making up the coating around nerve cells, ensuring adequate cholesterol - based hormone production, maintaining a normal skin barrier, and aiding brain health.