Sentences with phrase «blood vessels in one's brain»

Some form the walls of blood vessels in the brain.

One of biology's great mysteries is the blood - brain barrier, which lines blood vessels in the brain.

The drug — called alteplase — is the only treatment for stroke caused by a blocked blood vessel in the brain.

The network of blood vessels in the brain regulates the transport of energy and materials in and out of the brain — forming what is known as the blood - brain barrier (BBB).

When amyloid builds up in blood vessels in the brain, it can sometimes make them so brittle that they leak or burst.

Antioxidant - rich diets appear to protect against stroke by preventing the circulation of oxidized fats in the bloodstream that may damage the sensitive walls of small blood vessels in the brain.

Migraines used to be blamed on blood vessels in the brain dilating, or opening up.

Exercise manages insulin levels, reduces inflammation, and helps stimulate the growth of new blood vessels in the brain.

Caffeine helps ease migraine and tension headaches by constricting swollen blood vessels in the brain.

In a worst - case scenario, malaria - clogged blood vessels in the brain and other organs bring death within days, especially in youngsters, who have immature immune systems, and adults (like the Marines in Liberia) with no immunity to malaria.

Because premature babies have very fragile blood vessels in their brains, there is no sure way to prevent all cases of intraventricular hemorrhage.

Sweeney suffered from painful headaches and spikes in his blood pressure due to inflamed blood vessels in his brain.

Leaky blood vessels in the brain called cerebral microbleeds are associated with an increased risk of physical and cognitive disability in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new study by researchers in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo.

The benefits of treating serious strokes with clot removal were shown in 2015, when five separate studies analyzing a total of 1,287 patients showed that severe stroke patients — usually with clots involving the largest blood vessels in the brain — who received both the clot - snatching procedure and the medicine did significantly better than those who got medicine alone.

Jansen is among those who think that a compromised network of blood vessels in the brain triggers Alzheimer's by allowing toxins to cross the blood - brain barrier, potentially leading to damage to neurons and inflammation.

Previous studies have shown there indeed is a correlation between deteriorating blood vessels in the brain and cognitive decline, and the new work by Jansen and his colleagues finds that the leakier the blood - brain barrier becomes, the worse the cognitive problems may be.

Teams from the Paris Public Hospitals (AP - HP), Pierre and Marie Curie University, Inserm and the CarThera company, coordinated by Prof. Alexandre Carpentier, have successfully used ultrasound to temporarily permeabilise blood vessels in the brains of patients affected by recurrent malignant brain tumours.

Research has found that 60 percent of those with chronic migraines have genetic changes that decrease their body's ability to metabolize magnesium, which relaxes blood vessels in the brain.

In addition, small blood vessels in the brain respond quickly to hydration levels (which is also behind hangover headaches), leading to dull aches and even full - blown migraines.

Fourteen - year - old Linda suffers from severe epileptic seizures, which began after she fell from a church stage nine years ago and burst a major blood vessel in her brain.

Sherwood transferred the images of blood vessels in her brain onto lithographic plates and then rice paper.

Other researchers discovered that cells lining blood vessels in the brain are welded together, so tightly bound that large molecules can not slip between them and pass from the blood into the brain.

It is already known that a network of blood vessels in the brain regulates the transport of energy and materials into and out of the brain - this is known as the blood - brain barrier (BBB).

The benefits of exercise come directly from its ability to reduce insulin resistance, reduce inflammation, and stimulate the release of growth factors — chemicals in the brain that affect the health of brain cells, the growth of new blood vessels in the brain, and even the abundance and survival of new brain cells.

«If you laid out all of the blood vessels in your brain end - to - end, they would stretch halfway to the moon (about 120,000 miles).»

A blood vessel in her brain suddenly burst.

It has been noted that an injury to a person's blood vessels in their brain may actually dramatically alter the progression as well as onset of Alzheimer's disease.

Three key genes were expressed in those cells that infiltrated the brain: one that helped cancer cells «stick» to blood vessels in the brain, another that is known to make capillaries leaky, and a third that makes cancer cells mobile (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08021).

About 9,500 of all patients studied suffered from ischemic strokes, which occur when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel in the brain.

A major obstacle to improving treatment for the 3,470 cases of the disease expected in the United States this year is the blood - brain barrier, the name given to the tight fit of cells that make up the blood vessels in the brain.

We found that the inflammation unfortunately gets hijacked by tumor cells that are able to grow faster and penetrate deeper because the blood vessels in the brain are more permeable than in any other part of the body.

This micrograph depicts part of a blood vessel in the brain.

Finally, experts suggested that he might not suffer from a traditional psychiatric disorder caused by some inborn biochemical glitch, but from a vasculitis — a swelling of blood vessels in the brain, provoked by a hostile outside force.

An autopsy can trace the path of a bullet through a body, or reveal microscopic damage to blood vessels in the brain, or identify a lethal clog in an artery.

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have discovered that abnormalities of blood vessels in the brain may play a major role in the development of schizophrenia, a debilitating condition that affects around 1 % of people in Ireland.

The clot can also dislodge and cause a stroke if it lodges in a blood vessel in the brain.

Rando expects that researchers will now investigate the finding that GDF11 affects the growth of neurons and blood vessels in the brain.

This can lead to ischemic stroke, the most common type of stroke, caused by a blockage of a blood vessel in the brain.

Researchers from the University of Portsmouth's Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence have identified molecules which are responsible for metastatic lung cancer cells binding to blood vessels in the brain.

To Parker, the results suggest that head trauma kick - starts a chemical chain of events leading to a narrowing and reshaping of blood vessels in the brain.

The team found significant changes in gene expression after light exposure in all cell types in the visual cortex — both neurons and, unexpectedly, nonneuronal cells such as astrocytes, macrophages and muscle cells that line blood vessels in the brain.

Larger hematoma size and location were risk factors associated with dementia after an intracerebral hemorrhage when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.

To replicate the brain in miniature, Parker and his team started with an elastic substrate about the size of a fingernail, then added a layer of cells on top to mimic networks of blood vessels in the brain.

A Loyola University Medical Center case study demonstrates that a virus called varicella - zoster can cause inflammation of blood vessels in the brain.

A stroke is caused by a blood clot blocking a blood vessel in the brain, which leads to an interruption of blood flow and therefore a shortage of oxygen.

The volume of the blood vessels in their brain increased by 50 per cent and the number of brain stem cells by 29 per cent.

This releases the substance PGE2, which can make the blood vessels in the brain expand and thus cause head pain,» says Master's student Sebastian Bao Dinh Bui.

Fighters also get three vials of blood drawn, undergo an MRI, and, once every five years, get imaging done of the blood vessels in their brain.