Sentences with phrase «damaging brain tissue»

The head trauma might occur as a victim's head smashes against a hard surface, is hit by a blunt object, or is violently shaken, damaging brain tissue.

Memory function was fully restored in 75 percent of the mice without damaging brain tissue.

The materials are now being used in repairing jaws, faces, skulls, blood vessels, even damaged brain tissue.

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

While the study did not look for a mechanism, the team suggest that bilirubin, the toxin that accumulates in jaundice, may damage brain tissue and disrupt brain development, leading to autism.

* The NIH says its candidate vaccine — which contains the S139N mutation — did not damage brain tissue in earlier monkey tests.

But fetal tissue is scarce, and research in the past several years suggests that stem cells, which can be mass produced in a test tube, can also replace damaged brain tissue.

«Widespread blocking of this part of the immune system after traumatic brain injury helps damaged brain tissue to survive and improves neurological recovery in mice.

Some of these 10 proteins were associated with tau and amyloid proteins — both found in damaged brain tissue in Alzheimer's.

In most cases, CTE is thought to be caused by repeated blows to the head, which damage brain tissue and lead to a buildup of an abnormal protein called tau, according to the CTE Center.

When the doctors examined her, they diagnosed her with epilepsy as well, caused by a small patch of damaged brain tissue.

Using their model, the team has shown that induced neural stem cells, or iNSCs, can replace stroke - damaged brain tissue and stimulate neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to naturally repair itself.

Vascular dementia, for instance, can result when cardiovascular disease or a stroke limits blood supply and damages brain tissue.

Small cross-sectional area device does not damage brain tissue and could allow for high - density electrical recording.

Scientists are clear that toxic metals damage brain tissue and lead to degenerative disease by producing oxidative stress — and aluminum is one of the worst offenders.

Chlorella is one of the best natural remedies to prevent and reverse AD not only because it detoxifies our brains from mercury but also because, like turmeric, it can regenerate damaged brain tissue:

Damage brain tissue and accelerate brain aging, increasing the risk for dementia (some researchers call Alzheimer's type 3 diabetes)

They will eat foods that create massive inflammatory spirals that damage their brain tissue, joints, skin and organ systems.

Small but repeated insults to the brain — falls, crashes, whiplash, being near explosions, landing on your tailbone — damage brain tissue.

Strokes can damage brain tissue and are among the most common causes of disability and death in western countries.

Apparently the increased blood flow to brain helps damaged brain tissue heal.

In idiopathic epilepsy, the source of these abnormal brain impulses are small areas of abnormal or damaged brain tissue.

Studies have shown that traumatic brain lesions (i.e. damaged brain tissue) can occur in whiplash injuries, but typically will not occur without a high magnitude of acceleration - deceleration and are unlikely to occur without a significant loss of consciousness.

Due to this trauma, the brain can swell and bleed causing an increased amount of pressure to damage brain tissue.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, like most water - soluble vitamins, Vitamin B12 is stored in the liver, kidneys & other tissues & a deficiency may not show up for several years, which is a huge concern because after about 7 years of B12 deficiency there can be irreversible brain damage.

In response, your brain starts to repair the damaged tissue.

The brain can be flooded with stress hormones, and we know that stress hormones can damage sensitive developing nerve tissue.

The presence of the S100B protein triggers the release by the body of antibodies which can then leak back into the brain through the damaged blood - brain barrier, where they are thought to attack brain tissue.

Studies are still ongoing, but if a baby's brain tissue is overheated or receives damaging stimuli like increased temperature, it is suspected that defects can happen.

After an extensive investigation aiming at the precise localization of the epileptic focus, brain tissue that is damaged due to malformation, injury or other cause, is surgically removed.

Existing treatments are limited by their ability to cross the blood - brain barrier **, and doses must be kept low to avoid damage to healthy tissue.

Of those who survive, half are left with brain damage, which occurs when the heart starts beating again and a sudden rush of blood into oxygen - starved tissues triggers an avalanche of treacherous biochemical reactions.

Neurosurgeons use electrode grids to identify which areas of the brain are diseased in order to avoid damaging or removing healthy, functional tissue during operations.

Because it is a targeted therapy, less collateral damage occurs to healthy brain tissue.

The brain perceives the micrometastatic invasion as tissue damage, activating inflammation — its natural defense mechanism.

It is critical for physicians to monitor these secondary tissue damages, as they are frequently the origin of significant long - term effects, including brain damage, cognitive deficits, psychosocial / behavioral / emotional changes, bodily damage and biochemical changes at the cellular level.

Right now, the only widely available treatment for preventing brain damage from stroke is tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), which breaks up blood clots; it must be given within a few hours to be effective, and though it limits initial damage, it doesn't help the brain restore lost synapses or form new ones.

Scientists have associated the accumulation of these clusters with tissue damage that leaves sponge - like holes in the brain.

In addition to inflammation, previous microelectrode brain implants made of silicon or microwire have caused neuronal death and glial scarring, which is damage to connective tissue in the nervous system.

The accumulation of these clusters has been associated with tissue damage that leaves sponge - like holes in the brain.

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.

Would all this carefully targeted weaponry that destroys cancer cells without inflicting collateral damage on normal tissue work on cancers outside the brain?

Because the device is five to ten times thinner than the smallest commercially available microendoscopes, it can be pushed deeper into the brain tissue without causing significant damage.

The study involved 144 Vietnam veterans injured by shrapnel or bullets that penetrated the skull, damaging distinct brain tissues while leaving neighboring tissues intact.

The effects of Zika virus can be severe and include microcephaly where the skull has partially collapsed, decreased brain tissue, joints with limited range of motion, nervous system damage, and other health issues.

Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team, led by Professors Claire Harris and Professor Paul Morgan, showed that when the «homing» agent was injected into mice immediately after traumatic brain injury, it specifically targeted the injured tissue, serving to inactivate the complement system and reduce inflammation and neuronal damage.

Coles told the meeting that magnetic resonance imaging showed that subjects taking alemtuzumab had also lost less brain volume than those taking Rebif, a proxy measure for overall tissue damage.

This promises to make proton therapy an option for thousands more cancer patients by reducing the risks of healthy tissue being damaged during treatment, particularly in vulnerable parts of the body such as the brain, eye and spinal cord.

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.

Neuroscientists have long believed that scar tissue formed by glial cells — the cells that surround neurons in the central nervous system — impedes damaged nerve cells from regrowing after a brain or spinal cord injury.