Sentences with phrase «damage to brain cells»

Diffuse axonal injury — damage to the brain cells that isn't always as outwardly visible as other types of brain injury but can lead to permanent brain damage and death.

Researchers have discovered that fruit in general provides a boost to the brain because specific properties contained in some fruits can inhibit the development of dementia, potentially hold off Alzheimer's, naturally increases the blood flow to the brain, slow down the aging process specifically related to the brain, and can reduce the risk of damage to brain cells.

MSG is also an excitotoxin, and works synergistically with aspartame to create even more damage to your brain cells.

In a hopeful development, scientists from the Conti lab have pinpointed a key factor controlling damage to brain cells in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease.

But Fabry explains that much of the damage to brain cells occurs after the clot is removed or dissolved by medicine.

Abnormal levels of the proteins may be useful biomarkers that could help us study early treatments to limit or reverse the damage to brain cells and even prevent the development of the full - blown disease,» said study author Edward Goetzl, MD, a Professor of Medicine with the University of California, San Francisco, a researcher at the National Institute on Aging, and a scientist of NanoSomiX, Inc., a California - based biotechnology company that provided a grant for method development for the study.

This significantly impairs blood flow in the long term, causing lasting damage to brain cells.

The findings suggest that damage to brain cells called interneurons disrupts neurotransmitter levels and plays a role in the development of epilepsy after a traumatic brain injury.

However, CT scans can only detect bleeding in the brain, not damage to brain cells, which can happen without bleeding.

Not exact matches

If you can't follow that logic, then you should just stop trying to think, you might damage the two functional brain cells you have left

It's sometimes said that nutritional yeast contains compounds similar to monosodium glutamate (MSG), an excitotoxin that overexcites your cells to the point of damage or death, causing brain damage.

You would rather Arsenal lose than win, to push Spurs out of a competition that can only damage their next Premier league season, I think somebody has borrowed your only brain cell!

Apolipoprotein E is a protein that is important in the repair and recovery of brain cells that have been damaged due to concussion.

Tau helps provide structure to brain cells, is a marker for axonal damage — and is also what McKee finds spotted throughout the brains she examines in her Boston U. lab.

Sleep training must be gentle - leaving a baby to cry will damage them (and has been show to kill off brain cells).

Following an initial brain injury, the dying cells produce substances that go on to damage other brain cells.

Recently i read that methods of teaching them to self - sooth like crying - out can damage their brain cells, and it effects them emotionally.

It forever damages brain cells, robbing a child of IQ points and the ability to pay attention.

It may stunt the physical and mental growth of your baby and can cause considerable damage to the developing lungs, brain, liver, nervous system, kidneys and red blood cells in your baby.

Scientists have long speculated that astrocytes, the cell type that controls many neuronal functions, give rise to neural stem cells in damaged brain tissue.

One appears to protect brain cells from damage, while the other can stop the virus replicating (Nature Medicine, doi.org/bp4b).

«While environmental enrichment didn't seem to significantly influence the number of neurons [that were damaged],» explains Tsai, «it does induce the growth of dendrites and high numbers of synapses,» both of which are neuronal structures that underlie how brain cells communicate with one another.

Damage to human chromosome 9 (of the cell's 24 pairs) where the gene that codes for E-NTPDase2 resides is known to cause eye and brain defects, such as microphthalmia — literally, small eyes.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

A few microscopic techniques can focus light deep into the intact brains of dead animals to study its structure without damaging the axons, but much of this light is scattered away by the fatty lipid membranes that surround individual cells, making the technique less than perfect.

However, this damages the axons — the arms that protrude from neurons to make connections with other cells — making it difficult to see exactly how brain cells link up.

They found virus with the S139N mutation caused the most damage to the animals» brain cells.

Mouse studies published this week in Cell and its sister journal Cell Stem Cell and in Nature show precisely how the virus slows fetal growth, damages the brain, and leads to miscarriage.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, might damage muscle - controlling nerve cells in the brain earlier in the disease process than previously known, according to research from the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Using an in vitro human blood brain barrier model, the researchers demonstrated that radiolabeled mAb2556 could cross the blood brain barrier and kill HIV - infected cells without any overt damage to the barrier itself.

Amyloid plaques are the toxic clumps of protein that cause damage to cells in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.

She previously showed that when blood leaks into the brain, fibrinogen causes inflammation by acting in brain immune cells, which can lead to brain damage.

Based on previous studies, researchers have hypothesized that recreational noise exposure might damage the circuitry between sensory hair cells in the inner ear and their auditory nerve targets that deliver information to the brain.

By using a dye that highlights damaged brain cells, they were able to monitor injury development in the slices up to three days after blast exposure.

Microglia are present throughout the brain and spinal cord, are constantly monitoring their environment, and can be switched on or activated to perform different functions such as control inflammation, destroy pathogens, clean up the debris from dead or damaged cells, and seal off the site of an injury.

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.

Stem cells hold tremendous promise for medicine; their ability to metamorphose into other kinds of cells make them useful for repairing injuries — from heart attacks to brain damage.

This metabolic demand makes brain cells particularly vulnerable to damage from oxidative stress, in which reactive oxygen species (ROS), sometimes called free radicals, exert toxic effects on cellular components.

This is the first demonstration that introduction of blood in the healthy brain is sufficient to cause peripheral immune cells to enter the brain, which then go on to cause brain damage.

Jessica Hamzelou reports that 80 per cent of older people's brain cells are vulnerable to developing DNA damage (29 September,...

Research on lab animals has shown some of the chemicals cause cancerous tumors and damage developing brain cells, and some can alter hormones essential to reproductive and neurological development.

The researchers concluded that the presence of CBD or THC restrains the immune cells from triggering the production of inflammatory molecules and limits the molecules» ability to reach and damage the brain and spinal cord.

The test measures the neurofilament light chain (neurofilament), a protein released from damaged brain cells, which has been linked to other neurodegenerative diseases but hasn't been studied in the blood of Huntington's disease (HD) patients before.

Wilson says the team next plans to investigate if lithium chloride can blunt other forms of neurological damage, such as that resulting from trauma and stroke, both of which can kill large groups of brain cells.

Roberts explained that when the auditory nerves are damaged, brain cells increase their sensitivity to their remaining inputs, which can make ordinary sounds seem louder.

Researchers back then found that exposure to aluminum caused rabbits» brains to develop nerve cell damage — thought to be a precursor to Alzheimer's at the time — and long - term dialysis patients with high levels of the metal developed dementia.

Inserting genes into brain cells may one day offer doctors a way to slow, or even reverse, the damage from degenerative neurological disease

A mutation in the virus led to more brain cell damage and much smaller brains (right).

Eventually these smaller structures glom together to form plaques, but by then they have already damaged brain cells.