Sentences with phrase «of damage to nerves»

Researchers have demonstrated that mercury can cause the type of damage to nerves that is characteristic of the neurological changes found in Alzheimer's disease.

• People with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are at risk of damage to the nerves (neuropathy) and blood supply (ischaemia) to their feet.

Not exact matches

His research shows that in cases of hearing loss, the ear's nerve fibers become damaged before the hair cells do, and when those synaptic fibers reconnect to the hair cells, it's possible to regain hearing.

The DOD - funded research will target the use of Sprint specifically for amputees suffering from moderate to severe neuropathic pain — chronic pain typically caused by nerve damage.

Nerve damage can lead to a dangerous loss of feeling.

Opponents of circumcision argue the procedure can cause damage that ranges from nerve destruction and loss of normal tissue to infection, disfigurement and sometimes death.

Just as I started to come to grips with permanent nerve damage and an array of side effects caused by my treatments, another crisis struck.

He was close, dangerously close, to a plethora of problems facing him — from nerve to muscle damage to even more.

According to Irene Zoppi, a clinical education specialist at Medela, «many mothers with breast implants are able to breastfeed with little difficulty, but the surgical procedure has the potential to damage some of the milk - making tissue, milk ducts and nerves in the breast.»

It happens when the nerve supply to the affected part is damaged and there is no control on the diameter of the vessel.

Biopsy to remove tissue for diagnostic analysis can damage lactation ducts or nerves depending on the technique, amount of tissue removed and location of the incision.

I am Strong because I had two extremely intense contractions during the administering of the epidural, but managed to stay still enough with the help of my husband so as to not incur any nerve damage.

Talk to the surgeon who conducted the operation: ask him about the type of surgery and what the odds are of nerve damage or severance of the milk ducts.

Neurosurgery to deal with brain, spinal column, spinal cord, and peripheral nerve damage may be needed within hours or days of birth.

Later complications include weakness and numbness in 4 to 18 per 10,000 women, most of which resolve spontaneously within three months.65 — 69 Longer - term or permanent problems can arise from: damage to a nerve during epidural placement; from abscess or hematoma (blood clot), which can compress the spinal cord; and from toxic reactions in the covering of the spinal cord, which can lead to paraplegia.70

Pregnancy and delivery stretch the connective tissue at the base of the bladder and can cause nerve and muscle damage to the bladder or urethra.

If a breast biopsy is necessary, a surgery - free needle biopsy is the best choice to reduce likelihood of damaging milk ducts and nerves but even a surgical biopsy can leave enough unaffected areas for successful breastfeeding.

A couple of doctors assume that those who sleep with eyes open might be a damaged sign of the nerve, the problems related to the thyroid gland, and the various types of tumors.

I didn't want an epidural either and wanted a natural birth, but because of a lower back injury prolapse disks, nerve damage syatica, snapping hip syndrome it's too dangerous for me and my baby to try natural at all.

Neuropathy is nerve damage and a long term complication of diabetes.Neuropathy can lead to foot ulcers and slow - healing wounds which, if they become infected, can result in amputation.

They found that 60 per cent of the group with OSA had nerve damage compared to 22 per cent in the group without OSA.

«Either this was a direct act by the Russian state against our country, or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get in the hands of others,» May said.

People with diabetes are at risk of nerve damage (neuropathy) and problems with the blood supply to their feet (ischaemia).

Mrs May said: «Either this was a direct action by the Russian state against our country, or the Russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others.»

In an animal model, this technique successfully repaired nerve damage over distances of up to 6 cm: the nerve fibres grew back together in a functional way within 9 months.

[Robert Siman et al, Serum SNTF Increases in Concussed Professional Ice Hockey Players and Relates to the Severity of Post Concussion Symptoms] A strong blow to the head causes chemical changes within nerve cells that damage their structural proteins.

In 2002, after 12 years of deafness and with some misgivings, Shipsey got a cochlear implant, a device that would bypass damaged tissue, transmitting sound signals directly to his auditory nerve.

«Moving to non-invasive and repeatable methods of nerve fiber measurements such as in vivo corneal confocal microscopy would enhance study of peripheral neuropathy by enabling early detection of damage, progression of nerve fiber deterioration, and enable assessment of therapeutic strategies in the SIV / macaque model,» explains Dr. Mankowski.

In the new study, Zigmond and colleagues found damaged nerve cells produce a stream of molecular lures that specifically attract neutrophils to injury sites in mice.

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

Electrophysiological testing to measure peripheral nerve conduction properties is not a viable alternative because current methods lack the sensitivity required to detect damage to small, unmyelinated fibers, especially in early stages of disease.

Neutrophils are one of the most common types of immune cells and known to engulf microorganisms, but they are not normally associated with peripheral nerve damage, such as that caused by diabetes or trauma.

We want to examine how the fingertip sensors can help damaged or severed nerves regenerate,» said Erik Engeberg, Ph.D., principal investigator, an associate professor in FAU's Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, and director of FAU's BioRobotics Laboratory.

Damaged mouse sciatic nerves produced hundreds of times the normal amount of two «chemoattractant» molecules, Cxcl1 and Cxcl2, which attach to the surfaces of neutrophils and draw the immune cells into injured tissue.

In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine showed certain immune cells — neutrophils — can clean up nerve debris, while previous models have attributed nerve cell damage control to other cells entirely.

Therefore, new sensitive, noninvasive methods of assessing small fiber nerve damage are urgently needed to detect and monitor peripheral neuropathy in HIV - infected individuals.

The method is similar to one already tried in people who have lost an arm: The doctors at Northwestern University and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago removed nerves from damaged muscle in Vawter's amputated leg and connected them to hamstring muscle in his thigh, which had been left intact.

Tear samples from patients with diabetes show elevated levels of substance P, which are related to early damage to the corneal nerves, which may contribute to the development of corneal ulcers and poor wound healing in patients with diabetes, according to the pilot study by Maria Markoulli, PhD, MOptom, FAAO, and colleagues of University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

The panel continues to recommend a three - part therapy that contains AZT, or the HIV inhibitor called TDF, in the place of stavudine, which can alter fat metabolism and cause nerve damage.

But their prominence at sites where nerve cells are damaged by the disease means they deserve careful scrutiny in the desperate search for ways to arrest the most salient cause of dementia.

In trigeminal neuralgia, the nerve damage is presumed to be at the base of the skull.

Specifically, the Mount Sinai study was designed to test whether pharmacological compounds designed to block the function of XPO1 / CRM1 could stop disease progression in mouse models that exhibit some of the characteristics of MS. Researchers found that two chemical agents (called KPT - 276 and KPT - 350) prevented XPO1 / CRM1 from shuttling cargo out of the nucleus of nerve cells, which protected them from free radicals and structural damage.

A newly characterized group of pharmacological compounds block both the inflammation and nerve cell damage seen in mouse models of multiple sclerosis, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

In a report on their study, published June 20 as an Early View article online in Annals of Neurology, the Johns Hopkins team found that increasing levels of the protein clumps corresponded with worsening nerve damage, indicating that the smaller skin biopsies they used appear to work well as a measure of disease severity.

Because high blood glucose levels can lead to a long list of serious health problems — glaucoma, nerve damage and heart disease, to name a few — diabetics must test their glucose levels several times each day, typically using a lancing device to pierce a fingertip and draw blood.

They also recruited 20 age and gender - matched healthy controls, and 20 age and gender - matched patients with diabetic neuropathy — a different form of peripheral nerve damage due to high blood sugar.

Blocking the activity of a single enzyme can nearly halt the nerve damage caused by glaucoma in mice, according to a paper in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

After a blood workup revealed the presence of hexane, a petroleum derivative known to cause nerve damage, Bolte asked her about her living conditions.

Thinking that high concentrations of the corrosive NO might play a role in the nerve damage, Hilary Koprowski and his colleagues at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia tested in mice three compounds — uric acid, PTIO, and D609 — that are known to scavenge NO or inhibit its production.

They first injected a fragment of myelin protein into the brains of the test mice, causing nerve damage similar to that seen in MS patients.