Sentences with phrase «causes brain tissue»

The trauma from the injury causes brain tissue to swell, which can halt normal processes like breathing and digestion.

The brains of people with Alzheimer's are dotted with plaques of amyloid beta protein and tangles of tau protein, which together cause brain tissue to atrophy and die.

While the study can't prove that sitting helped cause the brain tissue thinning, the research «bears further exploration,» said Dr. Marc Gordon, chair of neurology at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y.

Not exact matches

The candida actually binds with the mercury in the body, and when that candida dies off it causes the mercury to redistribute into organs and tissues (such as the brain).

This is when sodium in the baby's bloodstream becomes diluted, causing tissues to swell and leading to dangerous interference with brain activity.

The brain, made of soft tissue, shifts inside the skull, causing temporary changes in how the brain works.

After an extensive investigation aiming at the precise localization of the epileptic focus, brain tissue that is damaged due to malformation, injury or other cause, is surgically removed.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is caused by a misfolded protein — a prion — which accumulates in brain tissue, causing death.

If a clump of this tissue, called plaque, breaks free, it can travel into the brain and block a smaller blood vessel, causing a stroke.

Recent studies suggest that the total loss in brain volume due to atrophy — a wasting away of tissue caused by cell degeneration — between our teen years and old age is 15 percent or more, which means that by the time we're in our seventies, our brains have shrunk to the size they were when we were between 2 and 3 years old.

Initially the innate immune system protects the tissue against these triggers, but prolonged activation becomes self - perpetuating, causing brain cell death to occur.

They also collected brain tissue from the 23 CJD patients and from seven individuals who died of other causes.

In addition to inflammation, previous microelectrode brain implants made of silicon or microwire have caused neuronal death and glial scarring, which is damage to connective tissue in the nervous system.

Spinal implants have suffered similar problems as those in the brain — they tend to abrade tissue, causing inflammation and ultimately rejection by the body.

Because the device is five to ten times thinner than the smallest commercially available microendoscopes, it can be pushed deeper into the brain tissue without causing significant damage.

Vasospasm typically results after a blow to the head causes bleeding in the space between the brain and the thin tissues that surround it.

The immune system's attack on the cyst can cause the surrounding brain tissue to swell with inflammation.

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That means that, theoretically, treating animals with DHED would only result in an estrogen increase in the brain, not in the heart, uterus, or breast tissue, where it can cause unwanted side effects.

Researchers have identified a unique metabolic signature associated with epileptic brain tissue that causes seizures.

In most cases, CTE is thought to be caused by repeated blows to the head, which damage brain tissue and lead to a buildup of an abnormal protein called tau, according to the CTE Center.

These substances are both highly Poisonous to nerve cells, and so could cause the degeneration of brain tissue found in Alzheimer's patients.

Synthetic, protein - only prions can cause a mad cow — like disease in mice, as can brain tissue from these mice, demonstrating that misfolded proteins are the infectious agents in prion disease.

Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence that disruptions in the movement of cellular materials in and out of a cell's control center — the nucleus — appear to be a direct cause of brain cell death in Huntington's disease, an inherited adult neurodegenerative disorder.

When the researchers measured the amount of virus present in different tissues, they found that, in addition to more virus in their blood and spleens, the older mice had 20-fold higher virus levels in their brains — which likely causes the excess deaths.

When the doctors examined her, they diagnosed her with epilepsy as well, caused by a small patch of damaged brain tissue.

An MRI found the cause: A small area of scar tissue in a structure of the brain called the hippocampus.

Like bruises in other tissues, cerebral contusion can be caused by multiple microhemorrhages, small blood vessel leaks into brain tissue.

What the microglia do between crises has been unclear, largely because getting the cells under a microscope has required excising a chunk of brain tissue — thereby causing damage that sends the cells into emergency response mode.

«Zika may cause miscarriages, thin brain tissue in babies carried to term: Using unique mouse model, researchers believe they can develop treatment or vaccine targets in order to fight virus.»

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.

Many people with Alzheimer's die of sepsis, which can be caused by infections, and he believes brain tissue samples could have been contaminated during autopsies with microbes from elsewhere in the body.

Another seminal study led to the discovery that blood flow and glucose utilisation change more than oxygen consumption in the active brain (Science, 1988) causing tissue oxygen to vary with brain activity.

But the number of neurons at a time with which microelectrode arrays can interface must be increased several-fold while making sure the scale - up does not cause damage to brain tissue.

Sophisticated radiation therapy technologies for treating brain and spinal tumors, aneurysms, and blood vessel abnormalities while causing minimal damage to healthy tissues.

Previously, stem cells were found only in bone marrow, brain tissue and fetal tissue — sources that have caused both logistical and ethical problems.

Moreover, recent data also show that in response to brain damage caused by aging, amyloid deposition, demyelination, and other insults, microglial cells activate several genes, including APOE, in order to more efficiently scavenge and clear tissue debris that are very rich in cholesterol due to the natural composition of the brain, which is mostly made of fats.

While the exact cause is not known, many researchers believe multiple sclerosis occurs when a person's immune system attacks tissue of the brain and spinal cord, resulting in severe pain, impaired movement and in the most extreme cases, death.

Tissue - clearing protocols are causing a revolution in human brain pathology.

The problem is that these probes are typically much larger in size than neurons and capillaries (they usually have a cross-sectional area of 103 μm2) and can thus cause significant damage to brain tissue when implanted.

«Meningitis is a condition where a bacteria or virus causes inflammation of the tissues overlying the brain.

Patients with PNDs carry antibodies that specifically target these proteins, but identifying the target antigens — intracellular proteins — challenged the dogma that the antibodies mediate disease by causing an autoimmune attack on brain tissue.

For example, inflammation in brain tissue caused by either genetic susceptibility or triggered by accumulating cellular proteins and external events, such as severe concussions, will leave the brain more open to injury.

If he can determine how to speed up engulfment of dead tumor cells from brain tissue, it is his hope to reduce the harmful inflammation that causes death of surrounding neurons.

MRI, positron emission testing (PET scan), functional MRI, computerized tomography (CT scan) and / or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) to look for scar tissue or other brain abnormalities that may be causing seizures

In rare cases, the disease can inflame the brain, spinal cord or other tissues or cause deafness.

These cells, isolated from adipose tissue, possess a set of very unique and powerful healing properties appropriate for addressing injury in the brain caused by stroke.

It's known, for example, that taking brain tissue from a mouse with Alzheimer's disease and injecting it into healthy mice will cause the latter to develop the neurodegenerative disease.

Studies performed in 2010 showed that injecting thryronamines into the belly cavity or brain tissues of experimental animals cause the following physiologic and behavior changes:

Doctors have known for some time that the confusion and memory loss caused by the brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's can also be caused by other types of brain changes, such as tissue damage stemming from strokes.