Sentences with phrase «death of brain stem cells»

The scientists describe that this protein triggers the death of brain stem cells.

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When it reaches the brain, Zika virus infects neuronal stem cells, which will generate fewer neurons, and by inducing chronic stress in the endoplasmic reticulum, it promotes apoptosis, i.e. the early death of these neuronal cells.

«The bottom line question,» says Christopher Austin, a neurogeneticist at Merck Research Laboratories in West Point, Pennsylvania, is whether this kind of gene therapy can stem the rate of brain cell death.

These results collectively suggest that neural stem cells need MSI1 to generate enough neurons for normal brain size, but the presence of MSI1 also increases the vulnerability of these cells to Zika infection, leading to the death of the population which ultimately results in microcephaly.

«The Vienna team of Dr. Javier Martinez, also a co-corresponding author on the study, could actually show that mutations in CLP1 affect tRNA biogenesis and that CLP1 mutant brain stem cells become more apoptotic (invoking cell death).

Several tests in cultured cells indicated that ganciclovir would cause the death of HSV - TK - expressing stem cells, and testing in the mouse model confirmed that administration of the drug after successful treatment of brain metastases successfully eliminated therapeutic stem cells that also expressed HSV - TK.

In a study published in the journal Cell Stem Cells, Maura Boldrini, from Columbia University, and colleagues studied the brains from corpses of people who were between 14 and 79 years old at the time of their death.

The Zika virus is known to negatively impact the growth of fetal brains and a group of researchers publishing in the journal Cell Stem Cell have investigated the effect of Zika on the adult brain reporting that infection can lead to cell death and reduced proliferatCell Stem Cell have investigated the effect of Zika on the adult brain reporting that infection can lead to cell death and reduced proliferatCell have investigated the effect of Zika on the adult brain reporting that infection can lead to cell death and reduced proliferatcell death and reduced proliferation.

Once in your brain, your stem cells are called upon to perform the important task of improving blood flow to tissues, halting destructive inflammation and premature tissue death, while ultimately replacing damaged cells.