Sentences with phrase «several human brain disorders»
The test tube finding, reported in the current Cell, could help explain the formation of prions — the tangled proteins that are implicated in mad cow disease and several human brain disorders — and eventually may lead to a way to smooth out these rogue proteins.
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A recent study published in Annals of Neurology reports that healthy human tissue grafted to the brains of patients with Huntington's disease in the hopes of treating the neurological disorder also developed signs of the illness, several years after the graft.
In the new study, the researchers discovered that during the second trimester of human brain development, oRG cells express genes related to a fundamental signaling pathway called mTOR, defects in which have previously been implicated in autism and several other psychiatric disorders.
The presence of several mutations in four important genes for the brain's synapses can be associated to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in humans.