Sentences with phrase «in tangled clumps»

Brasier's fossils appear in tangled clumps stuck to sand grains.

Not exact matches

Under a microscope these are the very regions that accumulate tangled clumps of tau, a normal protein found mostly in neurons.

The study also suggests that AF267B reduces the activity of an enzyme known as GSK3beta, which in turn prevents so - called tau proteins from clumping together into the disease's signature tangles.

The vision is essentially this: Thin the landscape so that the thick tangle of forest becomes «clumps» of trees, with open spaces in between.

A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's includes dementia and two distortions in the brain: amyloid plaques, sticky accumulations of misfolded pieces of protein known as amyloid beta peptides; and neurofibrillary tangles, formed when proteins called tau clump into long filaments that twist around each other like ribbons.

But in Alzheimer's, tau clumps together, which is thought to harm the brain, and causes twisted tangles to form.

The protein tau is normally found in brain cells, but scientists don't know why it clumps into tangles in people with Alzheimer's disease.

Tau protein normally helps brain cells function, but in Alzheimer's disease, tau clumps up in «tangles» inside the cells.

The new ALMA image and animation show vast new stores of SiO and CO in discrete, tangled clumps within the core of SN 1987A.

Not long after the heavy - handed Atomic Blonde slipped Charlize Theron into the high heels, platinum wigs and dubious accent of a globetrotting spy, a stony - faced Jennifer Lawrence leads the way in the bleak, excessively long Red Sparrow, which sets off promisingly but tangles into a confusing clump.

A bristling clump of those trees, monkey - brown with a tarry reek, their trunks nightmarishly tangled, still grows at the left side, facing across an untidy lawn to the big curved window of what used to be the living room but which Miss Vavasour prefers to call, in landladyese, the lounge.

It is also good to keep this area clear and clean so clumped up cat litter doesn't tangle in their furry paws.