Sentences with phrase «number of amyloid plaques»

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There seemed to be a direct relationship between the presence of CD33 and the number of destructive amyloid plaques.

They found no difference in the number of plaques or the total amount of amyloid beta between the mice that received the compound and those given just saltwater.

Once again, decreasing the number of receptors improved memory, even in the presence of amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's.

Characteristic neuropathological findings were focal depletion of diffuse and neuritic plaques, but not of amyloid angiopathy, and the presence of small numbers of extremely dense (collapsed) plaques surrounded by active microglia, and multinucleated giant cells filled with dense Abeta42 and Abeta40, in addition to severe small cerebral blood vessel disease and multiple cortical hemorrhages.

''... we hypothesize that repeated stress - related allostatic overload may affect brain function at three basic levels: (a) at the cellular level, it may compromise proteostasis (e.g. tau protein), organelles homeostasis, and induce epigenetic changes in neuronal DNA; (b) at the tissue level it may affect intracellular communication (synaptic contacts), number of cells (reduction of neuronal density), composition of the extracellular matrix (accumulation of amyloid plaques), and neuroinflammation; (c) at the systemic levels it may alter the brain's regulation of behavior (cognitive decline).

Packed with powerful antioxidants such as resveratrol and quercetin, berries» sky - high levels of flavonoids help to increase the number of connections between brain neurons — while helping to disrupt the amyloid plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.