Sentences with phrase «blood vessels in the brain triggers»

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.

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The team's experiments in cell cultures, conducted with funding from an American Brain Tumor Association Discovery Grant, showed that coibamide A cuts off the cancer cells» ability to communicate with blood vessels and other cells, eventually starving the cell and triggering its death.

Researchers revealed 8 key triggers which seem to raise the risk of intracranial aneurysm, a weakness within the wall of a blood vessel in the brain that commonly results in it ballooning.

This excess sugar in the bloodstream is highly damaging, damaging blood vessels and the brain and triggering the chronic inflammation foundational to such diseases as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism.