Sentences with phrase «preventing abnormal protein»

«Our results indicate that exercise may slow the progression of Parkinson's disease by turning on the protective gene DJ - 1 and thereby preventing abnormal protein accumulation in brain,» Freed said.

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The musashi protein also has interesting implications for the development of drugs trying to prevent abnormal memory loss that occurs in diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Abnormal levels of the proteins may be useful biomarkers that could help us study early treatments to limit or reverse the damage to brain cells and even prevent the development of the full - blown disease,» said study author Edward Goetzl, MD, a Professor of Medicine with the University of California, San Francisco, a researcher at the National Institute on Aging, and a scientist of NanoSomiX, Inc., a California - based biotechnology company that provided a grant for method development for the study.

For example, Gladstone scientists are researching how autophagy — a process by which cells eliminate abnormal proteins — can help to prevent the destruction of brain cells.

The dog becomes thin from the loss of body proteins, develops a propensity to throw abnormal blood clots throughout the body (from urinating out the proteins that would normally prevent this), and high blood pressure results.

If blood proteins drop too low, certain IV fluids or even plasma transfusions are needed to prevent massive, life - threatening edema, an abnormal collection of fluid.