Sentences with phrase «kills brain neurons»

It shows how mercury kills brain neurons.

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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.

We've all seen the warnings that sleep training causes so much stress to a baby that cortisol floods the brain, killing neurons and altering development.

Fruit flies with the mutant form of LRRK2 also had a disrupted microRNA pathway associated with the gene, and accumulated toxic proteins that killed motor - coordinating neurons in the brain.

In ischemic stroke, a clot blocks blood flow to part of the brain, killing neurons in its wake.

Their analysis focused on the substantia nigra, a brain structure where Parkinson's disease kills neurons that use the chemical dopamine to communicate with other cells.

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.

This involves killing substantia nigra neurons on one side of the brains of rats, which then develop a movement imbalance that causes them to turn in circles, as well as exhibiting other symptoms.

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.

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.

b - secretase acts like a pair of molecular scissors, snipping a piece off a large protein to produce b - amyloid, a smaller protein that builds up in plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and is thought to kill neurons.

What the researchers think is happening is that the stroke kills neurons in a part of the brain called the dorsal lateral striatum, and they stop inhibiting certain neurons in the midbrain.

But a broad range of brain disorders may be treatable by blocking astrocytes» metamorphosis into toxic cells, or by pharmaceutically countering the neuron - killing toxin those harmful cells almost certainly secrete.

When Hayashi injected a mutant gene for PAK into mouse embryos and later killed the adult mice and dissected and examined their brains, she discovered that the animals» dendritic spines — branched stalks that receive input from neighboring neurons — were short, fat, and sparse.

As a test, neuroscientist René Hen at Columbia University and his colleagues treated mice with antidepressants but killed off any newly created neurons in the hippocampus, a brain region linked to learning and memory.

In FTD, the accumulation kills neurons in the brain.

Next, the group injected a toxin called 6 - hydroxydopamine, which preferentially kills neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine, into one side of the brains of adult rats.

Some of them can interfere with neurons in the brain, killing those cells, and causing a variety of neurodegenerative conditions.

A lot of stress kills neurons,» said Grafman, who has long studied penetrating brain injuries but hasn't examined Giffords.

It kills neurons in the hypothalamus part of the brain stem that most likely never recover and are lost forever.

It accumulates in your brain, where it kills neurons, leading to memory loss.

Suzana Herculano - Houzel argues that cooking (besides neutralizing toxins and killing pathogens) supports higher neurons in brains by freeing up more calories.

Elevated cortisol kills neurons in the brain, inhibiting short - term memory and concentration.

Your brain has obviously been affected, you should pick a shady spot to bury your head in the sand, not one that is so hot that it has killed off essential neurons.