Sentences with phrase «shows dying neurons»

By the time this strain of genetically modified mice reaches 9 months of age, the hippocampus — a part of the brain important for memory — typically is visibly shrunken and shows dying neurons.

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The study, published in Nature Communications, shows that membralin regulates the cell's machinery for producing beta - amyloid (or amyloid beta, Aβ), the protein that causes neurons to die in Alzheimer's disease.

Matthew Rand, a mercury toxicologist at the University of Vermont, has shown in fruit fly models that mercury binds to cells, including neurons, and interferes with signals being sent to the cells that control how they develop, replicate, and die.

This work is based on his previous research showing that a specific type of neuron that dies in Parkinson's disease is more vulnerable to problems in mitochondrial fission.