Sentences with phrase «sclerosis damages the brain»

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May 1 — 31 Many people believe that multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that damages the brain and spinal cord, is fatal.

To look for the vessels, Dr. Reich's team used MRI to scan the brains of five healthy volunteers who had been injected with gadobutrol, a magnetic dye typically used to visualize brain blood vessels damaged by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or cancer.

A classic example is multiple sclerosis, where T lymphocytes, together with other inflammatory mediators, damage the protective myelin sheath that encases nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, might damage muscle - controlling nerve cells in the brain earlier in the disease process than previously known, according to research from the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

«Blood clotting protein triggers immune attack on brain: Disruption of the blood - brain barrier triggers a cascade of events that results in autoimmunity, brain damage characteristic of multiple sclerosis.»

The lab - grown exosomes stimulated myelin production in a sample of rat brain tissue intended to simulate multiple sclerosis damage, returning myelin levels to 77 percent of normal, Kraig and his colleagues recently reported in the Journal of Neuroimmunology.

The diverse phenotype of Multiple Sclerosis is the consequence of the dynamic damage to the brain.

Unsupervised communication For paraplegics who lose motor and sensory function as a result of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal cord injury or stroke - induced brain damage, simply communicating can be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered some of the first steps in how a very common gene mutation causes the brain damage associated with both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Nagoya, Japan (Scicasts)-- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease damaging motor neurons in brain and spinal cords.

When this vasculature — the blood - brain barrier (BBB)-- ruptures, blood proteins can enter into the brain and cause edema and neuronal damage in a variety of neurological diseases, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, and spinal cord injury.

In cases of Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's or other neurodegenerative disease, adult stem cells can slow the degenerative progression of your symptoms while restoring blood flow to the brain and repairing or replacing damaged tissue.

These exosomes contain specific microRNAs that promote myelination of aging brain as well as brain damaged by multiple sclerosis modeled in animal brain tissues.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS)-- a disease that causes progressive and irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

Disruption of the blood - brain barrier triggers a cascade of events that results in autoimmunity and brain damage characteristic of multiple sclerosis

Its deficiency can lead to peripheral nerve damage (especially in people chronic high blood sugar levels and those who are on statins and other cholesterol - lowering drugs), brain and spinal cord problems, neural tube defects in pregnancy, or Multiple Sclerosis lesions.

Both of these are strongly involved in atherosclerosis as well as damaging the brain in Alzheimer's as well as Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis.