Sentences with phrase «brain fluid»

The blood - brain barrier is the separation of circulating blood and brain fluid in the central nervous system.

To try to pin down its role, McCarley and his team first tracked the levels of adenosine by extracting samples of brain fluid from cats throughout normal sleep - wake cycles.

These spaces surround the blood vessels that drain brain fluid and communicate with the lymph system; widening of these VR spaces is seen in the elderly but rarely in the young.

Giffords was making «lightning speed» progress for a brain injury and had the drain for brain fluid removed from her head, her doctors said last week.

The HERV - W viruses that pour into the newborn's blood and brain fluid during these infections contain proteins that may enrage the infant immune system.

The plaques are made mostly of a protein fragment called beta - amyloid, which is produced by nerve cells and released into the surrounding brain fluid.

Now, new research showing that human brain fluid does the same thing could help us monitor Huntington's disease.

Previous studies had linked increased LPA signaling to alterations in architecture of the fetal brain and the initiation of hydrocephalus (an accumulation of brain fluid that distorts the brain).

Maybe it was the leakage of your brain fluid?

«The last evangelists who came here killed a man and drained his brain fluid,» he said.

Now we may finally see that, like other organs in the body, brain fluid can drain out through the lymphatic system,» said Dr. Reich.

One of the limits of the study, he said, was that his team could only assess the presence of antibodies in a blood sample, not a brain fluid sample.

Several other studies have since found similar active elements of HERV - W in the blood or brain fluids of people with schizophrenia.

Some of the strategies outlined below are designed to keep your brain fluids moving to keep you fresh and focused all the time.

Fontaine, who spent years coping with her mother's illness and living through «hospital and rehab facilities and emergency goodbyes and brain surgeries and therapies and grim consultations and leaking blood and brain fluid and crises and recoveries,» decided she would follow her mother's example.