Sentences with phrase «brain barrier allows»

However it's been shown that astaxanthin's unique ability to cross the blood - brain barrier allows it to «get in» and protect brain cells better than any other antioxidant known.

The blood - brain barrier allows the body to keep pathogens and potentially harmful chemicals circulating in the blood from entering the brain and spinal cord.

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It's molecular weight allows the drug to cross the blood - brain barrier, which results in an increased risk of depression.

Universal school breakfast breaks down that barrier between students and their morning meal, allowing students the opportunity to fuel their brains and bodies so they are ready to learn.

The UNC researchers are now trying to determine the precise molecular details of how the set of AAV amino acids allows the viruses to cross the blood - brain barrier.

These include the amount of lifetime exposure and individual differences in biochemistry that affect whether BMAA is absorbed by the gut, destroyed by the liver, or allowed to cross the blood - brain barrier.

Then he turned his attention to a synthetic analogue of bradykinin, called RMP - 7, that allowed 10 times more chemotherapy to be delivered to the tumor during the 20 - minute window that the blood - brain barrier was open.

This barrier works to protect the brain from toxins by allowing only small molecules to pass through.

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.

The researchers were testing the theory that blows to the head cause brain damage, in part, because of the breakdown of the blood - brain barrier, allowing the immune cells in the blood to come into contact with brain cells and destroy them.

One challenge in developing drugs to fight brain tumors is that agents must be able to cross the blood - brain barrier, a filtering mechanism that only allows certain types of substances to enter the brain.

The blood - brain barrier that normally keeps pathogens out of the brain becomes more permeable, allowing dangerous substances into the brain.

This allows a temporary and localized opening of the barrier for diffusion of therapeutics into the brain.

Perhaps the blood vessels begin to deteriorate first, causing leaks in the blood - brain barrier that allow microbes to get in.

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.

«Cooking allowed us to overcome an energetic barrier that restricts the size of the brains of other primates.»

La Jolla, CA — Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have overcome a long - standing problem in biology by equipping a protein with a small homing device, allowing it to slip behind the blood - brain barrier.

To overcome this seemingly impenetrable barrier, the Salk researchers exploited one of the mechanisms that allow the brain to import essential nutrients and molecules such as cholesterol from the bloodstream.

Researchers have developed a technique using magnetic nanoparticles that opens the door to allow therapeutic molecules to cross the blood - brain barrier, thereby opening the door to new treatments and diagnosis of brain diseases.

This barrier allows helpful nutrients to pass from the blood to brain cells.

PCI, on the other hand, allows for targeted disruption of the barrier by combining light activated drugs, or photosensitizers, with drugs known to disrupt the blood - brain barrier.

However, the ultrasound causes temporary disruption to the blood - brain barrier which allows not only the therapeutic agent to enter the brain, but also blood which could have medical implications.

One theory suggests that because chromium helps cells be more sensitive to insulin, it also allows insulin to transport tryptophan — the precursor to serotonin — across the blood - brain barrier and into the central nervous system.

As another potential explanation for the link between brain and gut, Lukiw cited evidence that «both the GI tract and blood - brain barriers become significantly more leaky with aging,» potentially allowing toxic bacteria and other substances from the GI system to access the central nervous system.

Diacetyl also easily penetrates the blood - brain barrier, a layer of cells which keeps harmful substances from entering the brain but allows helpful substances to cross.

By then the body will have allowed for the blood brain barrier to form and better keep out all the toxic heavy metals in the vaccines.

The FDA currently allows the use of these excitotoxins in food because studies have found that they don't cross the blood - brain barrier.

Inflammation can lead to a permeable gut, thereby allowing metabolites produced by gut inhabitants (and even the inhabitants themselves, or fragments of them) to leak into the bloodstream (56, 57), and some metabolites can even pass the blood / brain barrier (58).

Carbs allow the amino acid tryptophan to cross the blood - brain barrier where it can be readily converted into serotonin, the pleasant neurotransmitter, which then converts into melatonin.

He was referring to the fact that the brain is anatomically isolated, guarded by a blood - brain barrier that allows nutrients in but keeps out pathogens and inflammation, the immune system's typical response to germs.

Chelation should only be considered if the immune barriers are in tact (i.e., no leaky gut, or leaky blood - brain barrier, which would allow chelated toxins into the brain), the immune system is balanced, and detoxification functions are working normally.

MS patients have an abnormal blood brain barrier, which would allow toxins, viruses, bacteria and immune cells to get into the cerebral spinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord.

This peptide is extremely small, allowing it to penetrate the blood - brain barrier and act directly on the neurons of the central nervous system.

The blood brain barrier normally allows in oxygen and nutrients to feed the brain and restricts invaders such as viruses.

They prevent leaky blood - brain barrier, which limits the transport of toxins into the brain and allows nutrients to pass.

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.

And if they have a «leaky» blood - brain barrier, they can cause some serious harm by allowing chemicals / toxins to be deposited in the brain.

Dogs sensitive to Ivermectin have an anomaly that allows the drug to pass through the blood brain barrier and right into the central nervous system, causing respiratory distress, seizures, comas and death.

It opens up the blood - brain barrier, allowing neurotoxins into the brain.

Fluconazole is related to ketoconazole, but it is more successful in treating infections of the central nervous system (CNS) because it more effectively crosses the blood - brain barrier, allowing the medication to find its way to the infected areas of the body.

The plaintiff's doctor theorized that the blow to the head by the swinging rollerblades caused blood brain barrier long enough to allow antibodies to cross over and attack her brain.