Sentences with phrase «brain cells killed»

Basically, lots and lots of companies are re-growing the brain cells they killed in the haze of «Free Lunch & Free Drinks» created by their friendly neighbourhood search engine.

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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.

Pagan said that a larger, more comprehensive study must be done before determining the drug's true impact, but if the drug's effectiveness is confirmed in such tests, nilotinib could become the first treatment to impede the killing of brain cells that's consistent with Parkinson's, according to NPR.

If not, you're killing your productivity and killing brain cells.

When these «energy factories» are topped off, neurons in the brain may be better able to ward off stress from age - related brain diseases that ordinarily exhaust or kill the cells.

His work indicates that this cell surface marker could serve as a target for a novel brain cancer vaccine or T - cell therapies engineered to recognize and kill tumors carrying that neoantigen.

dinner tonight — some brains — deepfried of course, and then to kill off any surviving brain cells from dinner... some tv!

Religion seriously must kill more brain cells than pot or alcohol ever could touch, either that or your parents and teachers seriously were delinquent in assuring you a decent education.

If I believed it were all ending on a specific day you could bet your bottom dollar I wouldn't waste my remaining life warning everyone... I'd be killing every last brain cell available to me and enjoying this incredible planet!

They are chemicals that overstimulate your brain cells to the point that they explode, and when they explode they kill the brain cells around them as well.

Theres also a competing theory that getting concussions actually makes you smarter since it kills off the weaker brain cells first - making your brain more operate effecent as a whole.

At times Im not sure what kills more brain cells, a multiple day bender or reading the opinions of the majority of fans on this forum that constantly overrate our players.

If the only thing that will stop the crying is to give the child what he / she wants so his / her brain cells aren't killed off during those minutes of crying, is to create a monster - child.

Sleep training must be gentle - leaving a baby to cry will damage them (and has been show to kill off brain cells).

I seriously think I won't ever learn that it's like the wild, wild west for me every time I try to do something on my own, and I probably end up killing brain cells rather than getting some new ones with valuable information.

The sticky prions then clump, which eventually kill neighboring cells and riddle the brain with holes.

In human cells and in mice, the virus infected and killed the stem cells that become a glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, but left healthy brain cells alone.

«Large aggregates of ALS - causing protein might actually help brain cells: UNC School of Medicine scientists add to evidence that small aggregates of SOD1 protein are the brain - cell killing culprits in ALS, but the formation of larger, more visible, and fibril - like aggregates of the same protein may protect brain cells.»

The virus does this because, unlike most microbes, Zika can pass from blood into the brain, where it infects and kills stem cells, having severe effects on developing brains.

In the Cell study, Dr. Massagué, with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of breast and lung cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many cancer cells that enter the brain are killed by astrocytes.

«Herpes - loaded stem cells used to kill brain tumors.»

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

A «Trojan horse» treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

Their analysis focused on the substantia nigra, a brain structure where Parkinson's disease kills neurons that use the chemical dopamine to communicate with other cells.

APOE4 protein also ramps up brain inflammation that kills brain cells...

A single genetic mutation made the Zika virus far more dangerous by enhancing its ability to kill nerve cells in developing brains, a new study suggests.

Scientists have long suspected that Alzheimer's patients lose their memories and their wits when amyloid beta proteins form needlelike aggregates that punch holes in brain cells and kill them.

Strands of tau accumulate inside brain cells, disrupting the flow of signals and ultimately killing the cells.

People with Parkinson's disease experience muscle tremors and rigidity because something kills off the brain cells that normally make the movement - coordinating chemical dopamine.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link between cell phone use and cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.

Subsequent surgery on vaccinated patients has shown that the T cells are finding and killing tumor cells in the brain, but not enough of them.

In theory, brain cells that have been killed by Parkinson's disease can be replaced with cells from the brains of aborted fetuses.

Using an in vitro human blood brain barrier model, the researchers demonstrated that radiolabeled mAb2556 could cross the blood brain barrier and kill HIV - infected cells without any overt damage to the barrier itself.

However, this is the first time these biodegradable nanoparticles have effectively killed brain cancer cells and extended survival in animals.

They also want to create and test derivatives of CGP3466B to learn more about cocaine - induced autophagy and see if cocaine is killing any cells outside the brain.

Misfolded prion proteins accumulate in cells, forming dense plaques that clog up the brain and kill brain cells in the process.

This matters because cosmic rays kill brain cells — or, in any event, brain cells in vitro.

When they found a good candidate that could deliver genes to rat brain cancer cells, they filled the nanoparticles with DNA encoding an enzyme, herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (HSVtk), which turns a compound with little effect into a potent therapy that kills brain cancer cells.

This turned out to be a normal protein in the cells of organisms throughout the animal kingdom — but in brains infected with scrapie and related diseases it turns up in both a normal, soluble form and an abnormal, insoluble form which accumulates in deposits that eventually kill the cells.

Working with mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have contributed significant new evidence to support the idea that high doses of cocaine kill brain cells by triggering overactive autophagy, a process in which cells literally digest their own insides.

Parkinson's disease, which afflicts one million people in the United States, kills a class of brain cells that produce dopamine, one of the brain's chemical messengers.

Encapsulated toxin - producing stem cells (in blue) help kill brain tumor cells in the tumor resection cavity (in green).

«We think the mutant huntingtin is being released into the CSF from the very brain cells it is killing,» said Dr Edward Wild of UCL Institute of Neurology.

DDRs inhibition with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor appears to insulate the brain via blood - brain barrier repair, which prevents harmful immune cells that circulate in the body from getting into the brain where they can indiscriminately attack and kill healthy and sick neurons, like those that have been unable to perform autophagy to «take out their trash,» says Moussa.

Not only did the normal mice develop plaques, but also a pathology similar to «tangles» — twisted protein strands that form inside brain cells, disrupting their function and eventually killing them from the inside - out.

«A few years ago we recognized that stem cells could be used to continuously deliver these therapeutic toxins to tumors in the brain, but first we needed to genetically engineer stem cells that could resist being killed themselves by the toxins,» he said.

«We don't know if this will work in humans, but it's exciting to have a solid new lead on how this condition kills brain cells.»

Researchers believe they have learned how mutations in the gene that causes Huntington's disease kill brain cells, a finding that could open new opportunities for treating the fatal disorder.

Nevertheless, «as time goes on, the cavitation effects from the bullet itself» are likely going to continue to kill off brain cells, Rhee noted.

Scientists have known for some time that the mutated form of the huntingtin protein impairs mitochondria and that this disruption kills brain cells.