Sentences with phrase «prevent brain and spinal cord»

Folic acid — or folate — can prevent brain and spinal cord defects in developing fetuses.

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preventing neural tube defects and serious abnormalities of the brain and spinal cord for growing babies.

Choline helps your baby's brain and spinal cord develop properly, and helps prevent neural tube defects.

Getting enough folic acid every day before and during the first 3 months of pregnancy can help prevent defects involving a baby's brain and spinal cord.

Folic acid is a B - vitamin that prevents neural tube defects, abnormalities of the brain and spinal cord.

Research published today from Queen Mary University of London reveals less than 1 in 3 women have taken folic acid supplements before pregnancy to prevent spina bifida and other birth defects of the brain, spine, or spinal cord (neural tube defects).

Folic acid has long been touted as an important supplement for women of childbearing age for its ability to prevent defects in the baby's developing brain and spinal cord.

In a new study published in the Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, Drs. Ewa Kozela, Ana Juknat, Neta Rimmerman and Zvi Vogel of Tel Aviv University's Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Center for the Biology of Addictive Diseases and Sackler Faculty of Medicine demonstrate that some chemical compounds found in marijuana can help treat MS - like diseases in mice by preventing inflammation in the brain and spinal cord.

Researchers at Penn Medicine's Center for Studies of Addiction have now found that the drug baclofen, commonly used to prevent spasms in patients with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders, can help block the impact of the brain's response to «unconscious» drug triggers well before conscious craving occurs.

To prevent collateral damage to precious nerve cells during immune skirmishes, the brain and spinal cord are tightly sealed off from the rest of the body by the blood - brain barrier.

Glial cell line - derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) was selected based on clear evidence that it increases neuronal sprouting, prevents cell death [20], [21] and has neuroprotective effects in the brain [11], [22]--[24], spinal cord [12] and retina [25]--[30], and because receptors for GDNF are expressed within mature retina [26], [31]--[34].

Taking supplemental folic acid prior to as well as during early pregnancy has been advised for decades, soon after research confirmed its potential to prevent up to 70 % of neural tube defects, as well as improper formation of the embryonic spinal cord and brain.

It helps to prevent defects of the baby's brain and spinal cord.