Sentences with phrase «enlarged brain ventricles»

Ultrasound evaluations through the fontanel can reveal dilated or enlarged brain ventricles (open areas in each half of the brain).

Reduction of one of the lincRNAs, which they called cyrano, caused the zebrafish to have enlarged snouts, small heads and eyes, and short, curly tails, while the zebrafish lacking the lincRNA they called megamind had abnormally shaped heads and enlarged brain ventricles.

When the one of these lincRNA, called megamind, is reduced in zebrafish, the embryos have abnormally shaped heads and enlarged brain ventricles, as indicated by the arrow.

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Placing a shunt or tube in the ventricles — The placement of a shunt in the brain allows our team to drain the spinal fluid that has built up in the ventricles and direct it to other parts of the body, alleviating the enlarged ventricles that have caused the condition.

This buildup of fluids can cause the ventricles in the brain to enlarge.

Though much of the concern in the media regarding the toxic effects of Zika virus has focused on brain findings of microcephaly, the researchers noted that there are a variety of brain abnormalities that can be found in fetuses exposed to the virus, including gray and white matter volume loss, brainstem abnormalities, calcifications, and a condition called ventriculomegaly, where the ventricles, or fluid filled spaces in the brain, are enlarged.

However, the ventricles, chambers within the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid, are noticeably enlarged.

By the late stages of the disease, the brain is visibly shrunken and the ventricles - fluid filled spaces within the brain - are very enlarged compared to the brains of people without the mutation.

MRI scans showed enlarged ventricles while autopsies revealed atrophied brains with lower weights.