Sentences with phrase «cells of the brain»

These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!

In addition, the brains of the high - glycemic index diet mice appeared to have greater numbers of activated microglia, the resident immune cells of the brain.

The mice benefited from human stem cells called glial progenitors, immature cells poised to become astrocytes and other glia cells, the supposed support cells of the brain.

«Exposure to different sounds and scenes is essentially what helps establish connections from one set of neurons — the nerve cells of the brain — to another.

With leptin resistance the hypothalamic cells of your brain don't recognize this hormone and end up storing the fat instead of burning it off for energy, leaving you in constant hibernation mode, storing all your fat for a winter that will never end.

Problems occur when the hypothalamic cells of your brain do not recognize leptin, causing your body to think it's in starvation mode like a bear storing up fat for winter hibernation.

His research largely focuses on new means to incorporate imaging methods to view cells of brain tumors with a hand held instrument that a neurosurgeon can use to visualize the individual cells during the progress of the operation.

The new study shows that astrocytes, also known as the housekeeping cells of the brain, promote the decline of neuron function in AD.

Neurons, the specialized cells of the brain, can produce brief spikes of voltage in their outer membranes.

They found that the model's stem cells differentiate (specialize) into the various cells of the brain in the same way that they do in the first trimester of human development.

A human - specific gene expressed only in glial cells of the brain apparently arose from conversion of the ancestral gene by a nonfunctional pseudogene in a common human chimp ancestor.

«Early signs of Alzheimer's detected in cerebrospinal fluid: Immune cells of the brain become active years before the disease becomes apparent.»

By encouraging interaction among these initiatives, researchers are learning not just how the myriad cells of the brain work individually, but how they work in concert to produce behavior — as well as how the neural circuitry of behavior is modified in response to different forms of learning.

This signal regulates systemic growth by controlling the synthesis and secretion of insulin - like peptides (ILPs) by the insulin - producing cells of the brain [10].

Free radicals can be particularly toxic to the walls of our blood vessels, our peripheral nerves, the neuronal cells of our brain, and our mitochondria.

More recent experimental studies have shown that ALA can reverse the damage in aging cells of the brain.

With insufficient, if not totally absent, Intrinsic Factor vitamin B12 will not be absorbed, distributed, and utilized by the cells especially the nervous system cells of the brain and spinal cord.

TREM2 is segregated by certain immune cells of the brain — called microglia — and thus reflects their activity.

However, glia, the non-neuronal supporting cells of the brain, have now been implicated in the consolidation of cocaine - related memories.

Traditional DTI uses magnetic pulses to tag water molecules in the nerve cells of the brain and then records six characteristics of how these water molecules behave.

Leptin resistance occurs when leptin is not recognized by the body — specifically the hypothalamic cells of your brain.

The Mind that is the ground of cellular matter surely has no trouble entering the cells of the brain and effecting a change there.

If so, the soul is the thread of coordinated consciousness wandering through an enveloping unconscious mind composed of all (or many) of the entirely living occasions existing in the cells of the brain.

Just as our conscious human experience unconsciously feels the unconscious feelings of the cells of the brain and achieves a unity of its own life of feeling, so the Totality that is God feels our feelings in the unity of perfect experience.

Our mental life, significant and valued as it is, is extremely vulnerable in the sense that its achievements are utterly dependent upon, though not fully explicable in terms of, the proper chemical reactions that occur in the cells of the brain and nervous system.

In your book The Emperor's New Mind, you posited that consciousness emerges from quantum physical actions within the cells of the brain.

Since then, a couple of studies have found that people with schizophrenia seem to have more active microglia — the immune cells of the brain.

«All of the cells of the brain are constantly active and are participating, by a sort of algebraic summation, in every activity.

«It broadens our view of the neurobiology of addiction to appreciate a role for the often - neglected supporting cells of the brain.»

Astrocytes, the supporting cells of the brain, could play a significant role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

And today, a paper appearing in The Lancet provides compelling biological evidence that nusinersen is having its desired effect in the cells of the brain and spinal cord.

The goal of this project is to elucidate the functional role of apolipoprotein E (APOE) in microglia, the resident immune cells of the brain.

Human genetic studies strongly point to apolipoprotein E (APOE) and microglia (the immune cells of the brain) as, respectively, the most important gene and cell type in the chain of events leading to Alzheimer's disease (AD), a common disorder in the elderly in which the brain is damaged and memories falter.

The study found that the microglia cells — the immune cells of the brain — in middle - aged mice already showed altered activity seen in microglia from older mice.

Without GLB1, a fatty substance or lipid called GM - 1 ganglioside accumulates abnormally in cells, especially in the nerve cells of the brain.

The cells of the brain require twice as much energy than other cells of the body and water is the most effective provider of this energy.

In addition to its role in energy production, vitamin B1 plays a key role in the structure and integrity of the cells of the brain.

With ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, it is the colon; and with multiple sclerosis, it is the nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord.

Referred to as a «metabolic master switch» (6), AMPk is found in the cells of the brain, muscle, kidney, heart and liver.

For starters, it helps improve information transmission between the cells of your brain and nervous system.

: «The human brain can be changed by what comes into it; early experiences do make a difference in the way that the cells of the brain connect up.

Erratic electrical discharge from the brain doesn't allow for the efficient distribution of oxygen and glucose to the cells of the brain.

Gliomas arise from the supporting cells of the brain (glial cells) and include astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas.