Sentences with phrase «damage to the brain site»

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Microglia are the brain's resident security guards, surveilling the organ for damage and then crawling to the injury site to engulf dead neurons.

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.

In prior stroke studies on animals, stem cells injected into the brain or bloodstream migrated to sites of damage, apparently drawn by signals from damaged cells.

Proton therapy delivers high radiation doses directly to the brain tumor site, with no damage to nearby healthy tissue.

This is still an interesting paper but it would have been better to actually scan the 17 (or 40) patients» brains or follow up a sample of patients with brain injuries sustained in road traffic accidents, combat situations, etc., to see which ones become violent / criminal and whether this relates to the site and extent of the damage.»

Our brain needs TONS of cholesterol to function; our sex hormones are made from cholesterol, Vitamin D is made from cholesterol, bile is made from cholesterol; every time the body has an injury (say, a damaged artery from Insulin or toxic chemicals), the liver sends cholesterol to the site to Heal and Seal the damage.

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Adding to this site's archived caselaw addressing non pecuniary damages for collision related brain injuries, reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme Court, Chilliwack Registry, addressing damages for lingering concussive issues.

The spinal cord is responsible for transmitting signals from your brain throughout your body, and any disruption to that signal can cause serious and potentially irreparable damage to the rest of your body, depending on the site of the injury.

Adding to this site's ICBC Case Summary Archives, reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme Court, Victoria Registry, assessing non-pecuniary damages for a traumatic brain injury sustained in a BC vehicle collision.