Sentences with phrase «nerve cell degeneration»

They found LM22A - 4 reduces abnormal protein accumulation, delays nerve cell degeneration, and improves motor skills in the animals.

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When scientists gave mice an oral drug called LM11A - 31 (designed to prevent neural degeneration in Alzheimer's patients) just hours after a complete spinal cord injury, it limited the death of cells that protect nerve fibers, allowing test rodents to retain their ability to walk and swim.

«Our study sounds a serious warning about the possible detrimental side effects of this strategy, since we have shown that such antibodies cause dramatic degeneration of nerve cells by interfering with the normal on - off function of the prion protein,» he added.

Importantly, the antibody treatment also caused severe degeneration of nerve cell dendrites, the regions that are essential for normal communication between nerve cells.

These substances are both highly Poisonous to nerve cells, and so could cause the degeneration of brain tissue found in Alzheimer's patients.

Commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease (after the famed New York Yankee slugger who succumbed to it in 1941 at age 37), ALS is a poorly understood, incurable disorder characterized by the degeneration of motor neurons (nerve cells that control voluntary motion).

The new study by researchers at The Neuro shifts the focus to the loss or degeneration of axons, the nerve - cell «branches» that receive and distribute neurochemical signals among neurons.

These protein deposits disrupt the communication of the nerve cells in the brain and contribute to their degeneration.

In fact, so much of the progress that we're making in laboratories, including mine, is on developing neuroprotective therapies that can protect the retina from degeneration, regenerate optic nerve fibers all the way back to their targets in the brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nerve.

It is characterized by the wasting of skeletal muscles and caused by progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord; the disease leads to increasing muscular weakness, atrophy and premature death due to respiratory problems.

This research points to exciting new possibilities for preventing or reversing the disabling vision loss caused by age - related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma, and other diseases that damage the retina, the layer of light - sensitive nerve cells that line the back of the eye.

Specifically, he uses high - throughput genetic screening to identify genes involved in the degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the nerve cells whose death defines glaucoma.

SMA is a genetic, neuromuscular disease caused by progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord that leads to muscular weakness and atrophy and increased risk for early death due to respiratory failure.

Spinal muscular atrophy involves wasting of the skeletal muscles and is caused by gradual degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord.

Imagine how difficult it is for a patient and their family and friends when they lose vision, as is the case in a disorder such as age - related macular degeneration (AMD), where the unexpected sprouting of weak and leaky new blood vessels leads to death the ath of the nerve cells of the retina.

Caused by progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord, the disease leads to increasing muscular weakness and atrophy.

Corticobasal degeneration is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by nerve cell loss and atrophy (shrinkage) of various regions of the brain, including the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia (which helps to start and control movements, as well as other functions).

Second, they will determine which components of the EDN system are involved in both degeneration of the optic nerve and retinal cell death.

In the study, tests on human cells demonstrated that catuaba may help fight Parkinson's disease by protecting against the degeneration of certain nerve cells.

Pathologic findings include degeneration of peripheral and posterior spinal nerves, the posterior columns of the spinal cord, cells of the cerebellum, and neurons in the cerebral cortex.