Sentences with phrase «many nerve cells»

The start - up's premiere product, the Thin Ice vest, uses cold therapy to target areas of the body with high concentrations of thermoreceptors, which are nerve cells that are able to detect the presence of hot or cold temperatures.

For one, it would give them three specific biological markers to hone in on: The buildup of beta amyloid and tau proteins, which cause brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's, and brain nerve cell death.

«What we're trying to do is make your nerve cells more resistant to damage,» Ray said.

Unlike some of the promising treatments that have failed in 2017 that deal with the so - called «amyloid hypothesis» (the treatments target amyloid beta deposits in the brain that accumulate in people with Alzheimer's disease), approaches that try to prevent nerve cells from dying wouldn't have any impact on that buildup.

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

Nerve cells in our brains control our circadian rhythms, which influences sleep - wake cycles, hormone release, emotions and energy levels.

The companies» R&D will focus on on a gene mutation present in a wide swath of patients with ALS, a degenerative nervous system disease that eats away at nerve cells and weakens muscles.

Specifically, it appears that exercise stimulates neurons (nerve cells) to grow in the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory.

Francis Crick famously asserted that human life is «no more than the behavior of... nerve cells and their associated molecules.»

Lately I've begun to thank God for it, this chemical that — if scientists are right, and they aren't even sure — inhibits my overly efficient reuptake of another chemical (serotonin) that somehow facilitates communication between nerve cells in my brain.

«Garcia - Falgueras and Swaab state in the abstract of their 2010 study, «The fetal brain develops during the intrauterine period in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge.

Their brain is divided in regions with different coordinated functions, and it is composed of several hundred thousands of nerve cells (the honey bee has about 800,000).

However, the lowliest worms have sense organs, nerve cells and nerve centers, and these cells function more or less in the same manner as those of higher animals.

«Garcia - Falgueras and Swaab state in the abstract of their 2010 study, «The fe - tal brain develops during the intraut - erine period in the male direction through a direct action of tes - tosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hor - mone surge.

Why did some cells become brain cells, some nerve cells, some bones, etc?

Deterioration of nerve cells such as we see in advanced senility also has an effect on conduct.

The late Harold G. Wolff, one of our most distinguished neurologists, pointed out that the function of nerve cells was not confined to the function of the brain.

All the nerve cells of the body connect with one another.

Furthermore, nerve cells have a relationship to all other types of living cells in the body.

Did it started off as a mass of white ball, then it slowly started developing nerves, retina, a cornea, and essentially a complex apparatus for capturing light and transmitting it via nerve cells to the brain?

But it is not actually the crucial question, which is, What controls the activity of the complex interacting set of genes, which produces a nerve cell or a muscle cell?

It had to be supposed that these activities were brought together to result in some relatively unified type of action, e.g., to form a definitive nerve cell, rather than a definite muscle cell.

Some become muscle cells, others nerve cells, and so on.

Vitamin B6 is a vital nutrient that helps with the production of several neurotransmitters; chemicals that carry signals from one nerve cell to another.

For starters, we'd want some vitamin B12, which is crucial for nerve cells.

In many nerve cells, magnesium serves as Nature's own calcium channel blocker, preventing calcium from rushing into the nerve cell and activating the nerve.

If fibrin excess can trigger unwanted inflammation in nerve tissue and increase breakdown of the myelin wrapping the nerve cells (a process that is usually referred to as demyelination), health problems like multiple sclerosis (in which there is breakdown of the myelin nerve sheath) may be lessened through reduction of excess fibrinogen and / or fibrin.

Typically, vitamin B - 12 is found only in animal foods, making it a difficult nutrient for vegans to get in their diet, but it's essential for making red blood cells, as it keeps your nerve cells healthy and is essential for forming DNA.

It is considered an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which means it regulates brain and nerve cell activity by inhibiting the number of neurons firing in the brain.

Practically an electrolyte, potassium is a mineral which helps our muscles contract and our nerve cells function properly.

Blueberries also stimulate the growth of new nerve cells and facilitate better communication between nerve cells via a process known as transduction.

The consumed caffeine caused dopamine, a carrier of messages between nerve cells in the brain, to flood the brain's pleasure center resulting in decreased pain sensitivity, a huge benefit for chronic pain suffers.

One study, published in the «Journal of Alzheimer's Disease» in October 2013, found that the oil in coconut helps shield nerve cells from the toxic effects of protein plaques, which would otherwise drive Alzheimer's disease progression.

The MCT oils give the nerve cells a different energy source that is easier to burn.»

But if someone gets high all the time, he or she wears out the nerve cells until the brain has to shut things down, damming its dopamine flow, and not just from drugs but from everything.

When swelling, bleeding or other products of inflammation occur inside a compartment, the increase in pressure on the capillaries, muscles and nerves can result in intense pain and loss of oxygenated blood to the muscle and nerve cells.

Incredible Brain Development At birth a baby's brain contains 100 billion nerve cells (or neurons), all she will ever have, but not the programming of those cells.

This damages some of the nerve cells in the brain, and affects my dad's memory, decision - making and personality.

In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with each another, forming primitive neural pathways.

Dr. Allan Schore, the UCLA researcher, shows that cortisol (stress hormone) released during intense crying harm nerve cells in the brain.

Anal stenosis is a too narrow anal opening and Hirschsprung's is a case of missing nerve cells in the muscles of the baby's colon.

The adequate presence of myelin increases the speed and efficiency of the function of the nerve cells.

Research has shown that touch can also stimulate neurological development by promoting the growth of myelin, the substance that surrounds nerve cells.

Puffing didn't induce varicosities along the lengths of dendrites, the parts of neurons that receive chemical signals from neighboring nerve cells.

Children's brain nerve cells form before birth and continue to develop during the first six years.

Nerves are developing and are now surrounded by myelin that allows the nerve cells to exchange signals.

They found that exercise may help cognition by increasing blood and oxygen to the brain, increasing levels of norepinephrine, and endorphins to decrease stress and improve mood, and increasing growth factors that help create new nerve cells and support synaptic plasticity.

Color can play an important role in your baby's development, stimulating the brain and creating important nerve cell connections.

Within the brain are billions of nerve cells, known as neurons.

«Exposure to different sounds and scenes is essentially what helps establish connections from one set of neurons — the nerve cells of the brain — to another.