Sentences with phrase «for nerve function»

Magnesium is a vital mineral for general health as it assists in the body's ability to absorb calcium into bone matter, and is crucial for nerve function.

It also helps your nerves send the small electrical impulses required for nerve function, and it contributes to blood vessel function.

These charged particles make muscles contract, which includes your heart beat, are responsible for nerve function, such as the cognition in your brain that is based on these nerve impulses, and keep fluid balance in control

Not exact matches

For example, the burning of the fire and the passage of heat from it through intervening space is the cause of the body, its nerves and its brain, functioning in certain ways.

Mustn't forget to mention the vitamins too - Vitamin A (fat soluble vitamin that helps keep our vision sightly), B1, B2, B3, and B5 (all necessary for energy production and keeping our nerves in check and PMS at bay), vitamin C (boosts immune function and reduces allergic sensitivities), and vitamin E (tissue healing and repair as well as nervous system balance).

Vitamin B - 12 is extremely important for a number of different functions in your body, including, nerve function, mood and memory, hormone regulation, healthy skin and hair, and heart function.

Turkey also contains vitamin B6, which supports nerve function, and selenium, which is necessary for proper nerve function.

Calcium is also crucial for nerve conduction, muscle contraction, heartbeat, blood coagulation, the production of energy and maintenance of immune function.

Magnesium is necessary for healthy artery, blood, bone, heart, muscle, and nerve function, yet experts estimate that approximately 80 percent of the population in Europe may be deficient in this important mineral.

A 2015 study published in the journal Muscle & Nerve found that by the time kids enter college, those who've used smartphones for years have already experienced impaired hand function, thumb pain and other repetitive strains from all of that texting, swiping and scrolling.

For example, prolonged distress in early life, lack of responsive parenting, can result in a poorly functioning vagus nerve, which is related to various disorders as irritable bowel syndrome (Stam et al, 1997).

Disordered stress reactivity can be established as a pattern for life not only in the brain with the stress response system (Bremmer et al, 1998), but also in the body through the vagus nerve, a nerve that affects functioning in multiple systems (e.g., digestion).

Whether in pain, or experiencing some other distress, infants who are crying need assistance to reduce their distress, return their stress response system and the functioning of the HPA axis to a calm state, and train up their vagal nerve for healthful functioning.

Choline which helps in maintaining normal brain development is important for babies muscle and nerve function and healthy metabolism.

Researchers are looking at delays or abnormalities in brain development of nerve cells that are responsible for heart and lung function.

It is commonly known that calcium is required for strong bones and teeth, but it is little acknowledged that calcium is actually required by every cell in the body to function in a healthful way: from bones to nerves and muscles to blood, calcium serves a significant purpose throughout the body.

Further study revealed that these so - called immune proteins are actually present on the surface of certain nerve cells, but that they functioned differently in the brain than they did in the rest of the body; rather than scouting for germs, they influenced signals sent between neurons.

Lends rigidity and strength to bones and teeth; also important for the functioning of nerves and muscles, and for blood clotting.

By reversibly deactivating the new nerve fibers that grow, the neurobiologists were ultimately able to demonstrate for the first time that a group of these fibers is essential for the recovery of the motor function observed: Nerve fibers that grew into the spinal cord from the intact front half of the brain — changing sides — can reconnect the spinal cord circuits of the rats» paralyzed limbs to the brain, enabling the animals to grip anerve fibers that grow, the neurobiologists were ultimately able to demonstrate for the first time that a group of these fibers is essential for the recovery of the motor function observed: Nerve fibers that grew into the spinal cord from the intact front half of the brain — changing sides — can reconnect the spinal cord circuits of the rats» paralyzed limbs to the brain, enabling the animals to grip aNerve fibers that grew into the spinal cord from the intact front half of the brain — changing sides — can reconnect the spinal cord circuits of the rats» paralyzed limbs to the brain, enabling the animals to grip again.

Similarly, the signals trigger an increase in toxic chemicals such as nitric oxide, quinolonic acid, and kynurenic acid, which are bad for the functioning of nerve cells.

For decades, scientists have experimented with using nerve grafts as a way of bridging the spinal cord injury site in an attempt to recover lost function following spinal cord injury.

These genes are believed to be essential for the normal function of nerve cells, and previous studies have linked these mutations to problems with synaptic function — how neurons communicate with each other.

In a recent study, Granger and scientists with the University of Oregon tracked the release of nerve growth factor in saliva (sNGF), finding for the first time that this protein typically linked to the survival, development or function of neurons may be an important player in understanding the body's response to stress.

Thyroid cancer patients could lose speech ability or the ability to regulate the body's calcium levels in ways that are important for muscle and nerve function.

The many functions of astrocytes include protecting the brain from injury and harmful agents and providing essential support for nerve cells.

Skou's discovery of the sodium - potassium pump, which is a membrane pump that is necessary for the nerve cells to function.

But one challenge with printing out organs — a heart, for example — is that they require connections to blood vessels, nerves and other tissue in order to function properly.

They write, «Those patients with retained orbits, orbital nerve function, and early vision changes should be considered optimal candidates for allotransplantation in an effort to reverse the progression to blindness.»

For a damaged nerve to regain function, its long, signal - transmitting extensions known as axons need to grow and establish new connections to other cells.

In nerve cells, ribosomes are also found close to the synapses of the dendrites, thus enabling proteins that are required for synaptic function to be produced close to their sites of action.

Fast muscles from which MMP - 9 has been genetically removed (right) retain their nerve contacts, and therefore muscle function, for nearly 3 months longer.

Mutations in mitochondrial genes often cause neurological conditions because nerve cells need high levels of energy for their function.

«This study suggests that amyloid deposition in the gray matter affects the associated white matter connections, which are essential for conducting messages across the billions of nerve cells in the brain, allowing for all aspects of mental function.»

In mice, each vagus nerve contains about 2,500 sensory neurons, a small number for a structure that innervates the heart, lung, stomach and intestine and controls different functions in these different organs.

People with spinal muscular atrophy lack a protein that is required for the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord to function.

Even if nerve and muscle function could be completely restored in the arm, biological hands are too complex for surgeons like Aszmann to rewire.

Zinc is the second most abundant trace metal in the human body (next to calcium) and an essential dietary nutrient that's crucial for normal cell growth, a strong immune system and healthy nerve function — to name just a few of its widespread influences.

Rice and a group of collaborators are gearing up to investigate this potential link by searching for malformations of the blood - vessel nerves that could affect their function.

Researchers use the neurospheres to test treatments for gut motility disorders, in which portions of the intestine, sometimes referred to as the second brain, lack sufficient nerve cells to function properly.

Some mice were anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital, a common anesthetic used for taste nerve recording (Horio et al., 2011) and used in a recent study on the possible role of 5 - HT1 and 5 - HT3 in taste function (Jaber et al., 2014).

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have found that the protein hinders a key step involved in the transmission of neuronal signals, which is essential for higher - brain functioning: vesicle endocytosis at the nerve terminal.

«Since cholesterol is required by neurons to form synapses (connections) with other cells, this decrease in cholesterol could affect how nerves function for appetite regulation, behavior, memory and even pain and motor activity,» says Dr. Kahn, who is also Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Mitochondria provide the energy needed for nerve cells to function, but when aged or damaged, these organelles can potentially be harmful to the cell.

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This damages nerve cells by blocking their ability to make the proteins needed for synaptic function and leads to the death of neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

The channel - like property could have evolved, says Edwards, to meet the important need of moving large amounts of glutamate quickly, for while the other neurotransmitters are involved in modulating behaviors, such as mood, and therefore don't need to act with millisecond speed, glutamate functions by rapid - fire communication between closely placed nerve cells, and could require the fast action of the channel mechanism.

Using a new imaging technique, the scientists monitored the formation of insulating layers around nerve cells, a process called myelination, which is vital for normal brain function.

The cell produces nerve cells that help form the neocortex — the site of higher cognitive function — and likely accounts for the dramatic expansion of the region in the lineages that lead to man, the researchers say.

«SMA is a devastating disease that leads to the premature loss of nerve cells in the spinal cord necessary for normal muscle function.

Dr. Isaac Kim, Chief of Urologic Oncology, has also developed a new surgical technique for nerve sparing (Athermal Intrafascial Robotic Prostatectomy or AIR prostatectomy) using the robot that leads to faster recovery of sexual function as well as bladder control.