Sentences with phrase «central brain mechanisms»

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His goal is wildly ambitious — in large part because of how little is really understood about the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord, and its healing mechanisms.

«Drugs like morphine hijack the body's natural painkilling mechanisms, such as those used by endorphins, but because they act within the central nervous system, they can affect other brain cells that use similar pathways, leading to side effects such as addiction or sleepiness,» says Professor Gamper.

A team of researchers led by the University of South Carolina's Jeff Twiss just reported an innate repair mechanism in central nervous system axons that might be harnessed to regenerate nerves after brain or spinal cord injuries.

«Our findings reveal, for the first time, that DNA methylation, acting as a dynamic mechanism in the mammalian brain, plays a central role in the animal's psychological and physiological orientation to the length of the day,» said co-author Brian Prendergast, professor in psychology at the University of Chicago.

Their findings, published in Neurosurgery, lend hope to patients around the world with neurological conditions that are difficult to treat due to a barrier mechanism that prevents approximately 98 percent of drugs from reaching the brain and central nervous system.

Physiology and pathology of glutamate transporters in the central nervous system; molecular mechanisms of brain injury; mechanisms of homeostatic sleep regulation

Therefore, the mechanism proposed behind decreased female central insulin sensitivity is a modulation caused by brain estrogen signaling, potentially mediated by estrogen effects on ERα in various regions of the hypothalamus.

Your brain, that smart little thing, makes the central nervous system shut down as a save mechanism, so fewer signals are sent to the muscles in your body, resulting in a smaller force production.

Entry of insulin into the brain is a saturable mechanism; there comes a point when increased peripheral insulin levels no longer elevate levels in the central nervous system (CNS).

«There are several central mechanisms by which gut bacteria can communicate with the brain.

As such, another mechanism for the ketogenic diet working within brain cancer is the ability of the ketone bodies to enhance the protection of healthy central nervous system (CNS) from cancer growth (11).