Sentences with phrase «more dying neurons»

In a culture dish microglia that were modified to make a lot of TREM2 gobbled more amyloid and removed more dying neurons, compared with microglia having less of the protein.

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Svendsen is more optimistic about his team's work involving human tests of a novel stem cell approach to treat ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease in which cells that transmit messages from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles wither or die.

However, Markus Butz stresses that this does not work without a certain minimal excitation of the neurons: «A neuron that no longer receives any stimuli loses even more synapses and will die off after some time.

When the brain is harmed by injury or disease, neurons often die or degenerate, but glial cells become more branched and numerous.

And we know much more about what can go wrong in the brain that causes motor neurons to die.

And when they tracked the striatal neurons carrying the mutant huntingtin over time, they found them much more likely to die than those from other brain regions.

This work is based on his previous research showing that a specific type of neuron that dies in Parkinson's disease is more vulnerable to problems in mitochondrial fission.