Sentences with phrase «brain cells breaking»

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If human brains are like body's cells, there is a natural point of specialization, in which new systems break away and form similar but slightly different branches, as cells in a body become fingers, feet, hands, etc..

We all know by now that if the atomic combinations break down, or if the proper chemical reactions fail to take place, the cell will die or the brain (in which thought seems to dwell) will fail to function, and «mind» will be impaired or it may vanish altogether.

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

Mersons brain cells are degrading due to heavy drinks and drugs usage in the past So give the guy a break he has no sense to decipher anything let alone management styles He's still bitter that Wenger decided to sell him Arsene knows

The rectrospectoscope suggests that a pre-labor c / s would have resulted in an easier recovery for me (bad pain for two weeks or so, plus about a year when I couldn't sit properly thanks to a bruised or broken tailbone) and (more importantly) a few more functioning brain cells for my son.

Inside your cells, proteins allow your body to break down food to power your muscles, send signals through your brain that control the body, and transport nutrients through your blood.

At first the virus seems to build up harmlessly in brain cells, but as soon as the larva breaks out, these cells burst open, unleashing destruction all around them.

OTC is one of many enzymes that break down excessive nitrogen in our cells; when OTC is deficient, ammonia builds up and poisons the brain.

Stem cells, the blank slate from which the body can build any type of cell it needs, are proving themselves capable of doing what was once thought impossible: healing broken brains.

While biomedical researchers have had some successes in repairing peripheral nerves and nerve clusters outside the brain and spinal cord in humans, there currently is no effective way to regenerate broken nerve cells in the central nervous system, said Xue.

People with Sanfilippo Disease have too much of the substance heparan sulphate in their cells, particularly cells in the brain, because they lack the enzyme that usually breaks theheparan sulphate down.

Garzon - Muvdi explains that when blood vessels break anywhere but the brain, the body's immune cells easily clear the blood cells and their remnants from the area.

Some bacteria pierce the imposing blood - brain barrier by breaking links in the chain; sneakier ones do it by fooling the guard cells.

«Our studies show that broken - down components of the nuclear transport machinery lead to traffic jams within brain neurons of essential information and eventually brain cell death,» says Grima.

The study of human astrocytes has faced issues related to access (samples of living tissue must be obtained from brain cancer or epilepsy surgeries or fetal tissue) and purification (breaking apart astrocytes away from other cells often killed them and many experiments ended in failure).

Humans carry a gene for a protein in cells called apolipoprotein E, which helps clear amyloid - beta from the brain by binding to it and breaking it down.

We are now able to look into the brain of an animal and see how nerve cell connections are made or broken, and how that relates to learning or other adaptive changes.

Their compound, which is intended to repair brain damage that has already occurred, is a significant departure from current Alzheimer's treatments, which either slow the process of cell death or inhibit cholinesterase, an enzyme believed to break down a key neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory development.

But new U-M led research shows that the clock may be broken in the brains of people with depression — even at the level of the gene activity inside their brain cells.

The brain is constantly moving around huge amounts of fat and cholesterol because these compounds are major components of cell membranes, which the nervous system must constantly rearrange as it makes and breaks links from cell to cell.

And within the brain the synapse maps are constantly being revised and rearranged as the cells make new connections and break others.

Using a mouse model for this disease, which in humans involves the destruction of white matter in the brain, a research team led by Albee Messing, director of the UW — Madison Waisman Center, found that a protein behind the symptoms of the disease, called GFAP, is broken down more rapidly in the body than researchers previously found in cell culture studies.

As it stimulates the nervous system, caffeine tells the brain to break down fat cells.

Liver glycogen is broken down to release glucose if blood glucose levels fall too low, to provide glucose to the brain, nervous system, and developing red blood cells.

BDNF fortifys our brain cells which prevents them from breaking when exposed to stress.

Additionally, popcorn that is butter - flavored almost always include a chemical called diacetyl (DA), which studies have found to break down the layer of cells that protects the brain.

All carbohydrates are eventually broken down by the body into glucose, which is: — A universal fuel for most organs and tissues in our bodies — The only fuel source for our brain, red blood cells and a growing foetus, and — The main source of energy for our muscles during strenuous exercise

Nearly every cell in your body was designed to use glucose for energy — especially your brain cells — but fructose breaks down into a variety of toxins that can have devastating effects on your health.

Rather, the body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which is carried to the brain through the blood stream and used immediately by nerve cells for energy.

One is Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy (Krabbe's disease), a brain disorder where the white matter of the brain breaks down.