Sentences with phrase «damaged neurons»

This means that it may help damaged neurons repair after injury or from aging.

Adult stem cell therapy can slow the degenerative progression of your symptoms while repairing or replacing damaged neurons and brain tissue.

Current drugs, which are only minimally effective, seek to improve the function of already damaged neurons.

Geula and colleagues plan to investigate how the internal amyloid damages the neurons in future research.

Krainc and his colleagues discovered that the dopamine also damaged the neurons» mitochondria by increasing mitochondrial oxidant stress.

If you need a reason to eat organic, this is a good one: Pesticides and herbicides damage neuron bundles in the brain.

«It may not be the amyloid plaques themselves that directly damage neurons and the connections between them.

As well as offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by rerouting signals around damaged neurons.

In «How Football Destroys the Brain» neuroscientists Jacqueline C. Tanaka and Gregg B. Wells investigate the rapidly evolving science of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disorder involving damaged neurons that threatens to reshape the game of football.

Edgerton says the current might have reactivated damaged neurons or caused new neurons to grow across the site of the injury, or both.

«This solves a long - running mystery of how a gene mutation damages the neurons that carry information from the spinal cord to our muscles, resulting in a range of sensory and movement problems,» says Samuel Pfaff, a neuroscience professor at the Salk Institute and one of the senior authors on the paper with Xiang - Lei Yang, a professor at TSRI.

«Mobilizing mitochondria may be key to regenerating damaged neurons.»

In schizophrenia it may be that inflammation damages neurons indirectly by overstimulating them.

More and more evidence from other parts of the brain suggest that a molecule called ATP is part of the signaling mechanism where damaged neurons tell the glia that they are in distress.

This heightened inflammatory state, over time, eventually damages neurons and can affect cognitive functioning and memory.

That's a problem because BDNF is important for helping damaged neurons recover.

The reactive oxygen species and free radicals released from such reactions like lipid peroxidation can progressively damage neurons.

[2] An August 2016 study looking at the effect of Zika infection on the adult brain suggests that adult brain cells responsible for replacing lost or damaged neurons throughout adulthood, cells that are likely critical to learning and memory, may be vulnerable to infection.

Although glial activation may have short - term benefits, there is consensus that in the long - term, these cells may contribute to the pathology of damaged neurons in glaucoma.

Toxins cross the blood - brain barrier and damage neuron bundles in the brain, inhibiting serotonin and dopamine production.

Beta amyloid is a protein that accumulates in the brain over time and directly damages neurons, leading to cognitive impairment.Numerous micro hemorrhages (bleeds) and clots that form in the vasculature of the brain reduce blood circulation, which leads to oxygen deprivation to neurons, which in turn leads to neuron damage, death, and overall cognitive impairment.

In 2002 ethnobotanist Paul Cox from the Institute for Ethnobotany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii, and neurologist Oliver Sacks from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City introduced a shocking theory about how Chamorros might be ingesting enough BMAA to damage neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

Hoxb8 is usually active in microglia, immune - system cells that clean up damaged neurons and attack pathogens in the brain.

Glucocorticoids can damage neurons in the hippocampi of rodents and primates.

The condition, which also is known as Lou Gehrig's disease, damages neurons and causes patients to lose control over their muscles.

Rabinowitch thinks the work could ultimately open up new ways to treat brain damage, by creating neural bypasses that miss out the damaged neurons.

The idea was to use a technique that Perlstein calls evolutionary pharmacology to understand why methamphetamines and other psychotropic drugs, including antidepressants, damage neurons.

By turning down the dial on protein production, the diseased and damaged neurons were able to survive longer.

After delivery, the proteins instruct the stem cells and damaged neurons to interact.

In examining autopsy samples from MS patients, the researchers detected an abundance of amyloids in brain lesions and damaged neurons, the hallmarks of the disease.

When ALDH does not detoxify DOPAL sufficiently, it accumulates, damages neurons and increases an individual's risk of developing Parkinson's.

But it also damages neurons that don't lie directly in its path, because it is trailed by a pressure wave that transfers the energy of bullet into the surrounding brain tissue.

The ability to detect amyloid beta oligomers, Klein said, is important for two reasons: amyloid beta oligomers are the toxins that damage neurons, and the oligomers are the first sign of trouble in the disease process, appearing before any other pathology.

Subramaniam and his colleagues also found lesions and damaged neurons in the cerebellum, confirming Rhes is sufficient to promote toxicity and showing that even those regions of the brain normally impervious to damage can become vulnerable if Rhes is overexpressed.

Mutations in tau cause neurodegeneration in human brains, and tau modified by the addition of phosphate groups (p - tau) forms aggregates and damages neurons.

«But we do know that disruption occurs, and the blood proteins we have found in the brain are able to activate the brain's immune cells and damage neurons.»

Research conducted at the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center found that the immune system responded the same way to plaque as it did to bacteria, triggering inflammation in the brain that damaged neurons.

If they detect a damaged neuron or an infection, they become mobilized to take up neuronal debris or pathogens, and they secrete chemical signals to attract other microglia to help deal with the problem.

Second, they seem to be more susceptible to toxins that damage those neurons.

In the long term, this damages the neurons, eventually leading to cell death.

Aside from contributing to depression, damaged neuron bundles are a factor in anxiety, addiction, migraines, insomnia, chronic pain, Parkinson's, and ADD / ADHD.

The body does not normally have the ability to replace the damaged neurons.

In the lab I was studying why an excess of stress hormones had adverse consequences for health (in particular, damaging neurons), while with the baboons, I wanted to understand what social factors predicted who secreted more or less of those stress hormones.

Beta - amyloid is a protein that accumulates in the brain and damages neurons.