Sentences with phrase «brain and nerve cells»

Senility is commonly called «cognitive dysfunction» and is related to degenerating brain and nerve cells in aging pets.

However, when consumed in excess it can affect brain and nerve cells throughout the body, causing paralysis.

Research has found that ketosis can be neuroprotective (protecting critical brain and nerve cells)... It can [also] help to «calm» brain activity by affecting neurotransmitters (biochemicals that help nerve cells communicate).

Vitamin B6 helps in production of neurotransmitters, which are the chemicals that allow brain and nerve cells to communicate with one another.

Aerobic exercise has been shown to increase a brain - derived neurotrophic factor, BDNF, which promotes the health of brain and nerve cells.

Deep inside your brain, a legion of stem cells lies ready to turn into new brain and nerve cells when you need them.

It is considered an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which means it regulates brain and nerve cell activity by inhibiting the number of neurons firing in the brain.

That DNA tended to be associated with brain and nerve cell development, Rafati said.

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.

Our scientists have made vital contributions to finding new and better ways to diagnose and treat brain and nerve cell tumours.

She points to evidence that the fetus is naturally in a frequent state of ketosis and that it is essential for laying down fatty structures like brains and nerve cells.

Not exact matches

For one, it would give them three specific biological markers to hone in on: The buildup of beta amyloid and tau proteins, which cause brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's, and brain nerve cell death.

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

Nerve cells in our brains control our circadian rhythms, which influences sleep - wake cycles, hormone release, emotions and energy levels.

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

Lately I've begun to thank God for it, this chemical that — if scientists are right, and they aren't even sure — inhibits my overly efficient reuptake of another chemical (serotonin) that somehow facilitates communication between nerve cells in my brain.

«Garcia - Falgueras and Swaab state in the abstract of their 2010 study, «The fetal brain develops during the intrauterine period in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge.

Their brain is divided in regions with different coordinated functions, and it is composed of several hundred thousands of nerve cells (the honey bee has about 800,000).

Only a special systemic order of atoms in certain molecules of different types of brain cells, steady activity of these cells and excitations coming from sensoric nerves and running to associative and motoric centers are the basis of the peculiarity of brain function.

«Garcia - Falgueras and Swaab state in the abstract of their 2010 study, «The fe - tal brain develops during the intraut - erine period in the male direction through a direct action of tes - tosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hor - mone surge.

Did it started off as a mass of white ball, then it slowly started developing nerves, retina, a cornea, and essentially a complex apparatus for capturing light and transmitting it via nerve cells to the brain?

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.

So at day 14, the number of nerve and brain cells in the human embryo is zero, and it has less complexity than the simplest microscopic worm and less feeling or intelligence than a parasite in dirty drinking water.

Eicosonoids from Omega - 3's are hormone - like compounds that help regulate blood pressure, blood clotting, aid in growth and development of cells, needed for vision and brain development, and maturation of nerves.

Vitamin B6 helps maintain healthy brain function, normal nerve function, forming red blood cells, and breaking down and digesting proteins.

But if someone gets high all the time, he or she wears out the nerve cells until the brain has to shut things down, damming its dopamine flow, and not just from drugs but from everything.

This damages some of the nerve cells in the brain, and affects my dad's memory, decision - making and personality.

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

Children's brain nerve cells form before birth and continue to develop during the first six years.

They found that exercise may help cognition by increasing blood and oxygen to the brain, increasing levels of norepinephrine, and endorphins to decrease stress and improve mood, and increasing growth factors that help create new nerve cells and support synaptic plasticity.

Color can play an important role in your baby's development, stimulating the brain and creating important nerve cell connections.

«Exposure to different sounds and scenes is essentially what helps establish connections from one set of neurons — the nerve cells of the brain — to another.

Researchers are looking at delays or abnormalities in brain development of nerve cells that are responsible for heart and lung function.

- Speeds myelination * between the nerve cells in the stomach and the brain.

A growing body of research indicates that the B2M - MHC I complex, which is present in all cells in the body except red blood cells and plasma cells, can act in the brain in ways not obviously related to immunity — guiding brain development, shaping nerve cell communication, and even affecting behavior.

The feat raises hopes that similar techniques might restore nerve - cell function not only in the human eye, but also in the spine and brain.

«From bite site to brain: How rabies virus hijacks and speeds up transport in nerve cells.»

MODEL BRAIN In this minibrain, nerve cells (red) knit themselves together and send messages.

Their brains differed in the activity of over a hundred genes that provide cells with energy, influence chemical communications in the brain and strengthen the connection between nerve cells.

Healthy people in their 70s have just as many young nerve cells, or neurons, in a memory - related part of the brain as do teenagers and young adults, researchers report in the April 5 Cell Stem Cell.

Neuroscience focused on the nuts and bolts of the brain: how nerve cells communicate with electrical and chemical pulses, how brains learn and calculate and remember.

Inside the brain, prions presumably latch onto PrPC molecules on the surface of nerve cells and impose the prion conformation.

The brain is a complex organ — a network of nerve cells, or neurons, producing thought, memory, action, and feeling.

If left to accumulate, this «junk» can overwhelm nerve cells» quality control systems, triggering incurable brain disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's.

The males also had fewer nerve cells in their brains and their brains contained a type of immune cell that shouldn't be present there.

Clapcote reckons the gene helps regulate sodium and potassium levels in brain nerve cells.

Brain cells translate that genomic gobbledygook into rogue proteins, which do bad things inside nerve cells and eventually trigger symptoms, such as involuntary movements.

This type of inflammation between 18 and 32 weeks of gestation in humans has been linked to preterm birth as well as an imbalance of immune cells in the brain of the offspring and even death of nerve cells in the brains of those children.

BRAIN CANDY A new database offers a deep look at living human nerve cells, revealing elaborate branching structures and myriad shapes, such as in this neuron called a pyramidal cell (cell image, left and 3 - D computer reconstruction, right).

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilBrain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilbrain tumors or epilepsy.