Sentences with phrase «brain cell development associated»

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The latest findings show that genetic defects in the body's ability to manufacture carnitine might be associated with an increased risk of autism because carnitine deficiency interferes with the normal processes by which neural stem cells promote and organize embryonic and fetal brain development.

It found that genes associated with depression are involved in brain cell development, and that there was overlap between these genetic regions and those linked to schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.

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

Professor Geoff Pilkington, study co-author and Head of the Brain Tumour Research Centre, said: «Although this work is still at an early stage, we have demonstrated key elements that are associated with tumour cell binding to blood vessels and this may provide a target for future drug development to prevent the development of secondary tumours in the bBrain Tumour Research Centre, said: «Although this work is still at an early stage, we have demonstrated key elements that are associated with tumour cell binding to blood vessels and this may provide a target for future drug development to prevent the development of secondary tumours in the brainbrain.

This program has provided the first comprehensive picture of how a gene normally associated with cancer can influence development, survival and normal function of brain cells central to age - associated neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

Animals exposed to enriched environments high in stimulation have been shown to display increased hippocampal cell proliferation and neurogenesis compared with those reared in relative deprivation.7 Poverty represents a form of human deprivation that may parallel this animal model, raising the question of whether low levels of stimulation and relative psychosocial neglect associated with poverty have a similar negative effect on human brain development.