Sentences with phrase «caused by a neurodegenerative disease»

Study co-author Marius Wernig, a postdoctoral biologist at M.I.T., reports in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, that this is the first time scientists have successfully manipulated such cells to integrate into brain tissue and reverse damage caused by a neurodegenerative disease.

Studies of PQQ have shown it can optimize the health of the entire central nervous system, reverse cognitive impairment, improve memory, help in stroke recovery, slow the damage caused by neurodegenerative disease and help protect the brain from toxicity, such as from mercury.

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Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's are caused by the poor formation of those proteins in the brain.

Huntington's disease is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of a CAG repeat in the HD gene.

Neurodegenerative diseases are caused by the death of neurons and other cells in the brain, with different diseases affecting different regions of the brain.

Microglial cells may malfunction in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, and there is some evidence that they worsen the damage caused by a stroke.

As long ago as the 1950s, scientists discovered that many diseases — including heart disease, strokes, cancer, diabetes, cataracts, arthritis and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's — were linked to damage caused by highly destructive chemicals called free radicals.

Researchers believe that these amyloid aggregates, also seen in other neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, ultimately cause CJD by interfering with or killing off neurons en masse.

CTE is a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated trauma to the head.

For genetic diseases such as Huntington's disease — an incurable neurodegenerative disease caused by a well - recognized defective gene — simply cutting out the disease - causing DNA sequence seems like it could be the ultimate cure.

This discovery therefore represents an important advance in the search for treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's — which are caused by clumped together cellular debris.»

The finding may pave the way for new ways to prevent or reverse deficits in episodic memory, caused by aging or neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's.

Let's step back and review the technologies now available to treat this neurodegenerative disease, caused by a gene producing a toxic protein.

Spinobulbar muscular atrophy, another neurodegenerative disease caused by increased CAG size

Professor Cattaneo's laboratory works on Huntington's Disease, a brain neurodegenerative disease caused by the mutation in a singlDisease, a brain neurodegenerative disease caused by the mutation in a singldisease caused by the mutation in a single gene.

These diseases include neurodegenerative conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), tauopathies, prion protein diseases, as well as peripheral amyloidoses, such as immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis caused by myeloma.

Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for discovering that the neurodegenerative diseases known as spongiform encephalopathies, which include «mad cow disease,» are caused by an infectious form of a protein that exists in all mammals and birds examined, including humans.

The Director of the UC San Francisco Institute, Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, UCSF professor of neurology, biochemistry and biophysics, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for discovering that the neurodegenerative diseases known as spongiform encephalopathies were caused by prions.2 Prusiner and Stephen A. DeArmond, MD, PhD, UCSF professor of pathology and chief of the Division of Neuropathology, were the senior authors of the study.

Other neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, ALS and Huntington's disease, are also caused by certain amyloid structures interfering in the brain.

His research focuses on the long - term goal of designing small molecule therapeutics for prion diseases — fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by the spread of misfolded proteins across the brain.

Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG: CTG repeat expansion in exon 1 of the gene that encodes the polyglutamine - containing protein Huntingtin.

Over a lifetime, we believe that Parkinson's and several other neurodegenerative diseases are caused by genetics AND some kind of trigger in a person's life with age.

Several other compounds are also in early - stage development for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases caused by protein aggregation.

The Center focuses on new solutions for overcoming crippling neurodegenerative disorders such as Huntington's Disease, which robs patients of their independence by causing things such as short - term memory loss, involuntary movements of the head and trouble with swallowing.

The progressive neurodegenerative disorder Huntington's disease (HD), which is caused by a polyglutamine repeat expansion within the huntingtin protein, is characterized by movement disorders, cognitive impairment and psychiatric symptoms.

This is why we call HD a neurodegenerative disease: - it's caused by the death (or degeneration) of neurons.

Current research applications focus on new approaches to a) drug and probe development for neurodegenerative disorders and diseases including Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's, b) understanding the structural determinants of antidepressant binding to neurotransmitter transporters, c) cardiac arrhythmia as caused by the complex interplay of potassium channel regulation and drug interactions, d) multidrug resistance in cancer and bacterial cells related to multidrug transporter proteins, and e) structural basis of viral infections and antibody activity.