Sentences with phrase «inside brain cells»

The key is to support the energy factories inside each brain cell, called mitochondria, and to support cell function.

As a result, it works inside brain cells as a powerful antioxidant, too.

A protein that can switch shapes and accumulate inside brain cells helps fruit flies form and retrieve memories, a new study finds.

The researchers were specifically looking at levels of beta - amyloid deposits in spaces between nerve cells as well as tangles, knotted threads of the tau protein inside brain 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.

In a paper published today on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine report how a mutation in a gene involved in the regulation of calcium inside brain cells can help trigger blackouts of the brainstem, the center that controls heartbeat and breathing, and increase the risk of sudden unexpected death.

Previous research has suggested that in all three diseases, proteins that are folded abnormally form clumps inside brain cells.

For more than a decade, however, other researchers have fingered a second protein called tau, found inside brain cells, as a possible culprit.

Once inside brain cells, some of it gets converted to an inorganic form that sticks to and disables many structural proteins and enzymes essential to cell function.

When administered directly into the space surrounding the spinal column, cyclodextrin causes a release of the cholesterol trapped inside the brain cells of NPC mice and cats, reducing neuronal damage and prolonging survival in the animals up to eightfold.

But new U-M led research shows that the clock may be broken in the brains of people with depression — even at the level of the gene activity inside their brain cells.

In a first - of - its - kind study, UNC researchers show how a damaging cascade of events inside brain cells - and related to Alzheimer's disease - can be stopped or reversed.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Amyloid beta (Αβ) proteins, widely thought to cause Alzheimer's disease, block the transport of vital cargoes inside brain cells.

Neurofibrillary tangles — twisted fibers inside brain cells.

Strands of tau accumulate inside brain cells, disrupting the flow of signals and ultimately killing the cells.

Excess DDRs activation may switch off autophagy, resulting in build - up of toxic proteins inside brain cells and possibly breakdown of the blood - brain barrier, common in neurodegenerative diseases, he says.

Lead author Hiroko Yano, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, found in mice and in mouse brain cell cultures that the disease impairs the transfer of proteins to energy - making factories inside brain cells.

To confirm that finding, Nath's team examined brain tissue and found leiomodin - 1 inside brain cells, notably in regions associated with symptoms of Nodding syndrome.

In patients with certain neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, a protein called tau forms stringy blobs known as «tangles» inside brain cells.