Sentences with phrase «nerve cells die»

Understanding why these nerve cells die or do not work properly could lead to new therapies for PD.

In Alzheimer's disease, this loss of synapses occurs very early on, when people still only have mild cognitive impairment, and long before the nerve cells themselves die.

Nerve cells died.

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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.

These symptoms arise because nerve cells producing the neurotransmitter dopamine, located in an area of the brain known as the substantia nigra, slowly die.

Lowered density usually means that nerve - cell bodies, known as gray matter, or the material around them, have thinned out or died.

They tested neural tissue from people who had died from Huntington's disease, a degenerative disorder of nerve cells in the base of the brain.

«Instead of cleaning up when neurons die, the microglia assume they're under attack when they see too much cell death and kill nerve cells as collateral damage,» says Tanzi, who led the research team.

But at some point, tau goes astray, too, and the nerves lose their structural support, causing the cells to collapse and die.

When the optic nerve is injured, there are tears and swelling in the affected area that causes the nerve cells to die.

The result in both cases is that they rub against and irritate the brain tissue, and the nerve cells around the electrodes die.

Small energy factories can't produce enough fuel to keep nerves alive, so the cells slowly die off, the thinking went.

Once these channels become blocked by charybdotoxin, nerve cells can not function and the scorpion's victim dies a paralysing and painful death.

Optic nerve hypoplasia is closely related to optic nerve atrophy, in which the optic nerve develops normally initially, but later degenerates as its cells die off.

The great New York Yankees first baseman was diagnosed with ALS in 1939 and died two years later from the progressive neuromuscular disorder, which attacks nerve cells that lead from the brain and the spinal cord to muscles throughout the body.

Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.

Motor neuron disease (MND) is a group of diseases in which the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow slowly degenerate and die.

MIXED SIGNALS Minibrains grown in the lab form nerve cells (red) prematurely and show signs of dying cells (green) when treated with a signaling molecule called LIF.

People with Alzheimer's may make less acetylcholine because their nerve cells are dying.

In other neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's — which primarily affects a person's motor abilities — scientists know that nerve cells begin to die long before symptoms appear.

When nerve cells are injured so severely, surrounding cells also die off in the hours after the trauma.

The solution was targeted to each animal's striatum, a brain region involved in motor control; it is the dopamine - producing nerve cells in this area that die during Parkinson's disease.

Plaque and toxin deposits in the brain cause once - healthy neurons (nerve cells) to work less efficiently together and, eventually, die.

The mass die - off of nerve cells in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease may largely occur because an entirely different class of brain cells, called microglia, begin to fall down on the job, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

These research priorities that will lead to the development of new therapies became particularly striking when I was diagnosed five years ago with glaucoma — a degenerative disorder where the retinal nerve cells that carry visual information to the brain slowly die.

Clearing it from the synapses might prevent nerve cells from dying, the teen reasoned.

A possible strategy for treating neurodegenerative diseases is to transplant stem cells into the brain that prevent existing nerve cells from dying.

Exposure to excessive dietary glutamate can cause nerve cells to fire UNTIL THEY DIE.

Brain inflammation is serious because it means nerve cells in the brain are dying.

Simply put, neurodegenerative diseases happen when nerve cells in the brain deteriorate and die.

He gave each person a spinal tap and analyzed the fluid for a protein fragment that forms plaques in the brain and for another protein that accumulates in dead and dying nerve cells in the brain.

Cognitive dysfunction happens when nerve cells start to die and there is malfunction in nerve communication, similar to Alzheimer's in humans.

In the spinal cord, stem cells replace dead neuron support cells and give «life support» to otherwise dying nerves.

Carole Brody Fleet learned firsthand how financially devastating a spouse's death can be when her husband died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.