Sentences with phrase «in brain and spinal cords»

Nagoya, Japan (Scicasts)-- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease damaging motor neurons in brain and spinal cords.

In the long run, the scientists want neural dust motes in the brain and spinal cord.

He had multiple old lesions in his brain and spinal cord and several enhanced lesions.

This type of stem cell, called an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell, is found in the brain and spinal cord.

In 2002 ethnobotanist Paul Cox from the Institute for Ethnobotany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii, and neurologist Oliver Sacks from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City introduced a shocking theory about how Chamorros might be ingesting enough BMAA to damage neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, kills motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, progressively paralyzing the body until even swallowing and breathing become impossible.

A classic example is multiple sclerosis, where T lymphocytes, together with other inflammatory mediators, damage the protective myelin sheath that encases nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord.

Motor neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain and spinal cord control the function of muscles throughout the body.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is marked by a cascade of cellular and inflammatory events that weakens and kills vital motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

Morphine and its derivatives seem to exert their effects by binding to specific receptor sites on cells in the brain and the spinal cord.

Infection with Bb led to many histopathologic findings in infected animals not treated with dexamethasone, such as leptomeningitis, vasculitis, focal inflammation in the brain and spinal cord, and necrotizing focal neurodegeneration and demyelination in the cervical spinal cord.

The rare progressive condition attacks nerve cells located in the brain and spinal cord responsible for controlling voluntary muscles.

It is famous for robbing Lou Gehrig of his life and Stephen Hawking of his mobility and voice, but just how amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) destroys motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord remains a mystery.

Myelin, the fatty coating that protects neurons in the brain and spinal cord, is destroyed in diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

In a new study published in the Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, Drs. Ewa Kozela, Ana Juknat, Neta Rimmerman and Zvi Vogel of Tel Aviv University's Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Center for the Biology of Addictive Diseases and Sackler Faculty of Medicine demonstrate that some chemical compounds found in marijuana can help treat MS - like diseases in mice by preventing inflammation in the brain and spinal cord.

Star - shaped astrocytes are the most abundant subgroup of glial cells, which support and insulate neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

The newly fingered SNP lies in a gene for a protein called LINGO1 that is present only in the brain and spinal cord — a distribution consistent with a role in neurological disorders, says neurologist Dietrich Haubenberger of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, one of the study's authors.

For example, it could be used to image neurons in living mice by combining the Raman scattering technique with existing methods in which tiny windows are implanted in the brains and spinal cords of laboratory animals.

Scientists at the Science Foundation Ireland - funded APC Microbiome Institute at University College Cork, Ireland, have shown that, at least in mice, gut bacteria play a key role in regulating abdominal pain and its associated changes in the brain and spinal cord.

But where neuroscientists are accustomed to seeing only vanilla when it comes to astrocytes — viewing all of them as similar despite their different locations in brain and spinal cord — they now will have to imagine «31 flavors» or more.

Motor neuron disease (MND) is a group of diseases in which the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow slowly degenerate and die.

Damage to astrocytes — star - shaped cells found in the brain and spinal cord — is found in many neurodegenerative conditions, but it's been unclear exactly what role astrocyte dysfunction plays in the development of disease.

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects neuronal cells in the brain and the spinal cord, which send signals to control muscles throughout the body.

These problems are caused by a type of white blood cells called T cells that, after becoming activated, find their way into the brain and attack the protective covering — myelin — of neurons in the brain and spinal cord, causing inflammation and damage to the central nervous system.

Myelin disorders can affect nerve signal transmission in the brain and spinal cord, leading to cognitive, motor and sensory problems.

The condition is caused by the immune system malfunctioning and mistakenly attacking nerves in the brain and spinal cord.

NPAS1 and NPAS3 control genes involved in brain and spinal cord development.

Damaged axons in the brain and spinal cord of mammals don't regenerate, and spinal cord injuries can therefore lead to permanent paralysis.

Many cases of ALS are sparked by a toxic build - up of certain proteins, which cause neurons in the brain and spinal cord to die.

The FUS protein normally plays a key role in the healthy functioning of neurons, which transmit nerve signals in the brain and spinal cord.

They found that microglia, the first and primary immune response cells in the brain and spinal cord, are essential for dealing with TDP -43-associated neuron death.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants to replenish lost cells.

ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.

A fraction of the FTD patients show symptoms consistent with ALS, a disease in which the nerve cells that control the muscles, in the brain and spinal cord, are affected.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that leads to paralysis and death due to the loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

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.

A common characteristic of ALS and frontotemporal dementia is the build - up of clumps of misfolded RNA - binding proteins, including a protein called FUS, in the brain and spinal cord.

This disorder is marked by the loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, and atrophy of the frontal and temporal lobes.

MS is an inflammatory disease in which the protective myelin sheathing that coats nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord is damaged and ultimately stripped away — a process known as demyelination.

gray matter One of two main types of tissue found in the brain and spinal cord.

white matter One of the two main tissue types found in the brain and spinal cord.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS)-- a disease that causes progressive and irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

GM1 is an extremely severe, autosomal recessive disease caused by a mutation in the GLB1 gene and resulting in the progressive destruction of neural cells in the brain and spinal cord.

CREBBP has also been associated with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease, a neurodegenerative disease with progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, Alzheimer's disease and poly glutamine repeat diseases such as Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy and Huntington's disease.

Dr. Akassoglou and her team reached this conclusion by using advanced imaging techniques to monitor the disease's progression in the brain and spinal cord of mice modified to mimic the signs of MS. Traditional techniques only show «snapshots» of the disease's pathology.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease, in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are demyelinated.

«Right now we have some advanced tools we can use to stimulate the nervous system — very specific pathways in the brain and spinal cord,» said Horner, who is also vice chairman of research for the Department of Neurosurgery at Houston Methodist.

In ALS, the motor neurons — nerves in the brain and spinal cord that communicate with muscles throughout the body — progressively degenerate and eventually die.

The myelin sheath, which protects nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord, is attacked and damaged by the immune system.