Sentences with phrase «from killing brain cells»

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When these «energy factories» are topped off, neurons in the brain may be better able to ward off stress from age - related brain diseases that ordinarily exhaust or kill the cells.

dinner tonight — some brains — deepfried of course, and then to kill off any surviving brain cells from dinner... some tv!

The virus does this because, unlike most microbes, Zika can pass from blood into the brain, where it infects and kills stem cells, having severe effects on developing brains.

In theory, brain cells that have been killed by Parkinson's disease can be replaced with cells from the brains of aborted fetuses.

«We think the mutant huntingtin is being released into the CSF from the very brain cells it is killing,» said Dr Edward Wild of UCL Institute of Neurology.

DDRs inhibition with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor appears to insulate the brain via blood - brain barrier repair, which prevents harmful immune cells that circulate in the body from getting into the brain where they can indiscriminately attack and kill healthy and sick neurons, like those that have been unable to perform autophagy to «take out their trash,» says Moussa.

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.

Nevertheless, «as time goes on, the cavitation effects from the bullet itself» are likely going to continue to kill off brain cells, Rhee noted.

Wilson says the team next plans to investigate if lithium chloride can blunt other forms of neurological damage, such as that resulting from trauma and stroke, both of which can kill large groups of brain cells.

Because the stem cells generate the brain cancer cells, killing off the stem cells might prevent tumors from recurring.

The study of human astrocytes has faced issues related to access (samples of living tissue must be obtained from brain cancer or epilepsy surgeries or fetal tissue) and purification (breaking apart astrocytes away from other cells often killed them and many experiments ended in failure).

Researchers demonstrated that the drugs pemetrexed and gemcitabine killed cells from mouse and human brain tumors, called group 3 medulloblastoma, growing in the laboratory.

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have a potential solution for how to kill tumor cells that have metastasized to the brain.

For example, the drug might kill cancer cells, but also accidentally block normal brain cells from signaling other cells.

By mimicking a molecular switch that triggers cell death, researchers have killed cells grown in the laboratory from one of the most resilient and aggressive cancers - a virulent brain cancer known...

We really did inhale smoke from burning leaves wrapped in paper and drank liquids that killed our brain cells.