Sentences with phrase «mutation damages the neurons»

«This solves a long - running mystery of how a gene mutation damages the neurons that carry information from the spinal cord to our muscles, resulting in a range of sensory and movement problems,» says Samuel Pfaff, a neuroscience professor at the Salk Institute and one of the senior authors on the paper with Xiang - Lei Yang, a professor at TSRI.

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ALD, for instance, is caused by mutations in a gene called ABCD1, leading to unusually high levels of a type of fatty acid that damages the material insulating some neurons.

Mutations in tau cause neurodegeneration in human brains, and tau modified by the addition of phosphate groups (p - tau) forms aggregates and damages neurons.