Sentences with phrase «eventually kill brain cells»

When damaged, they leak destructive molecules that can cause substantial harm and eventually kill brain cells.

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The sticky prions then clump, which eventually kill neighboring cells and riddle the brain with holes.

This turned out to be a normal protein in the cells of organisms throughout the animal kingdom — but in brains infected with scrapie and related diseases it turns up in both a normal, soluble form and an abnormal, insoluble form which accumulates in deposits that eventually kill the cells.

Not only did the normal mice develop plaques, but also a pathology similar to «tangles» — twisted protein strands that form inside brain cells, disrupting their function and eventually killing them from the inside - out.