Sentences with phrase «by plaques in»

Graeber also speculates that the case of Johann F. convinced Alzheimer's boss Emil Kraepelin to name the affliction «Alzheimer's disease» in 1910 — diagnosed by plaques in the brain — in the 8th edition of his textbook of psychiatry.

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A few people even dumped the Chairman's Award, the highest honor in the company, a glass plaque bestowed by former chairman and CEO Ullman on his most valued employees.

For example, Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY) has a phase 3 study of solanezumab under way in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease patients that may slow disease progression by breaking up amyloid plaque buildups thought to be a major cause of the disease.

Atherosclerosis is a disease characterized by the build - up of plaque in the arteries, and is a precursor of heart disease.

By the end of the year, the Varsity Club had hung a bronze plaque in State Gym embossed with the words from the Curtis Hotel letter.

In grateful acknowledgment this plaque is presented by the San Francisco Giants.»

The Reds have tried to make amends over the years — there is a memorial plaque to the dead at Anfield, and when the teams were drawn together in the 2005 quarterfinal Liverpool fans extended an olive branch by spelling out the word «amicazia» in a fan choreography.

Whelan family's message to Bohs volunteers.Christy Whelan, brother of Liam, has asked us to include the following message from the Whelan family in our programme and on our website: The Whelan family would like to thank the Bohemian supporters for all they've done with their work on the Liam Whelan Bridge, cleaning and repairing the damage to the plaque and its surrounds.Their swift response and valuable work is much appreciated by the entire Whelan family.

Each visitor has a plaque with their name on it by the tree that has been planted in their presence.

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Lecithin is for anyone, it is a poly - unsaturated fat so it helps by lowering the plaque in our blood, reducing cholesterol, and it works in breastfeeding mothers by making the breast milk less sticky so it will flow better, reducing the risk of clogged milk ducts.

Crest Pro-Health Sensitive Shield offers sensitivity protection with no trade - offs by also protecting the seven areas dentists check most: cavities, gingivitis, plaque, tartar, sensitivity, whitening and fresh breath — all in one package!

Dental decay (caries) is caused by bacteria that live in plaque on the teeth.

Gum disease is signaled by a persistent bad breath and foul taste in the mouth, and is caused by a build up of plaque on teeth.

It interferes with saliva production, which naturally cleanses the mouth by neutralizing acids caused by plaque and washing away dead cells building up in the mouth.

During his various trips to the capital, Lenin (1870 - 1924) lived at 30 Holford Square, Clerkenwell in 1902 - 03; nearby 16 Percy Circus, WC1 * (off King's Cross Road) in 1905 - locations marked by a plaque or other memorial are shown with a *; and 6 Oakley Square, NW1, in 1911.

BY ANDY HUMM The Stonewall Inn bar ---- the 1969 raid on which sparked the modern LGBT liberation movement ---- is on a street renamed Stonewall Place and was made an official National Historic Landmark in 2000, but it does not have an official plaque marking its role in history.

Geraldine Ferraro (c.) is presented with a plaque by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (r.) during the renaming of the post office in Long Island City for Ferraro last year as former U.S. Rep. Barbara Kennelly looks on.

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (left), presents a plaque to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris, when the Police Chief visited the INEC headquarters today to brief the Commission on the arrangements being put in place by the security agencies for the Anambra Governorship election scheduled for November 18, 2017.

The last time I heard of rats pursuing people, I read about it in the Bible when Pharaoh was tormented by frogs, flies and various plaques.»

The Holdredges, who are active in the local chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America, plan to add a brass plaque containing the names of local service members who were affected by the chemical.

Studies at autopsy of people who had dementia have detected many of these so - called microvascular infarcts either by themselves or along with the plaques and tangles more typical of Alzheimer's in the brains of people with dementia.

The designation of UChicago as a National Historic Chemical Landmark joins the University's 2006 designation by the American Physical Society as an historic physics site to commemorate the work of Robert Millikan, who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics for experiments conducted at the Ryerson Physical Laboratory building, 1100 E. 58th St.. A plaque commemorating that work hangs in the first - floor lobby of the Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S. Ellis Ave.

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new and more accurate way to distinguish between harmful and harmless plaque in the blood vessels by using ultrasound.

LACK of sleep could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease by encouraging toxic plaques to develop in the brain.

A composite biomarker score, created by combining two different ratios, predicted the presence or absence of A-beta plaques in the brain with about 90 percent accuracy in both groups of patients, the researchers found.

By the time the mouse was 10 months old, it had also lost old plaques, as shown in these brain samples.

These results, published online ahead of print in the American Journal of Medicine, with an accompanying editorial by the editor - in - chief, show that Plaque HD ®, produced statistically significant reductions in dental plaque and inflammation throughout the body as measured by hs Plaque HD ®, produced statistically significant reductions in dental plaque and inflammation throughout the body as measured by hs plaque and inflammation throughout the body as measured by hs - CRP.

Surprisingly, a 2009 study by researchers in Germany found that getting rid of microglia had no effect on plaques.

But in Alzheimer's, the APP's function is sabotaged by zinc, which accumulates in the disease's trademark plaques (Cell, DOI: 10.1016 / j.cell.2010.08.014).

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized in most patients by red, raised patches of skin, or plaques, covered with silvery - white scales.

The narrowing or closure is predominantly caused by the covering of atheromatous plaques within the wall of the artery rupturing, in turn leading to a heart attack (Heart attacks caused by just artery narrowing are rare).

«Its existence,» Kipnis says, «could explain how Alzheimer's plaque can be cleaned out by some of us but left for sludge in those who get disease.

Research on plaques has also been hampered by the lack of a good method for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in living patients.

This discovery lends more weight to the growing evidence that inflammation — and our immune system's hyperactive reaction in mopping up the cellular debris left by the wayward plaques and tangles — plays a key role in the spread of the disease.

In a brain ravaged by Alzheimer's, microtubules, which are crucial to cell communication, disintegrate as tau proteins (blue) form tangles and amyloid proteins (green) form plaques.

A new diagnostic test, created by Detlev Riesner and colleagues at the Heinrich - Heine - Universitat in Dusseldorf, Germany, may help spot the plaques long before brain cells die off.

In people, Alzheimer's is often marked by both A-beta plaques and tangles of tau.

The test, which measures beta amyloid plaque levels in cerebrospinal fluid, successfully diagnosed 15 Alzheimer's patients and wasn't tripped up by 19 people with other neurological diseases.

Now, a trio of studies in the July issue of Nature Medicine opens new avenues for plaque research by presenting a new animal model for plaque formation, a diagnostic tool for spotting them, and a possible way to break them down.

The UCLA researchers, led by David Eisenberg, director of the UCLA - Department of Energy Institute of Genomics and Proteomics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, report the first application of this technique in the search for molecular compounds that bind to and inhibit the activity of the amyloid - beta protein responsible for forming dangerous plaques in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

For years the prevailing theory was that memory loss was caused by protein fragments, so - called plaques and tangles, that accumulate in the brain.

Overall, nearly 20 percent of the men and 12 percent of the women who participated in the study developed or died from heart disease, a suite of conditions that includes stroke, coronary heart disease caused by the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries, acute coronary syndromes such as heart attack, and other diseases.

What these illnesses have in common is that they're caused by abnormal proteins that accumulate in or between brain cells to form plaques, producing damage that causes mental decline and early death.

Small shining molecules developed by scientists at Linköping University in Sweden can be designed to distinguish between plaque of different proteins in the brain.

Some 500,000 people die in the United States each year from coronary heart disease, which is usually caused by heart arteries getting clogged with fatty plaque.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

Our ancestors going back thousands of years show signs of atherosclerosis, as suggested by modern research using CT to detect evidence of calcium deposits associated with atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries of mummies as old as 5,000 years.

By examining brain regions most affected by Alzheimer's disease pathology in humans, the group demonstrated that amyloid beta plaques and blood vessels were present in all 20 aged chimpanzee brainBy examining brain regions most affected by Alzheimer's disease pathology in humans, the group demonstrated that amyloid beta plaques and blood vessels were present in all 20 aged chimpanzee brainby Alzheimer's disease pathology in humans, the group demonstrated that amyloid beta plaques and blood vessels were present in all 20 aged chimpanzee brains.