Sentences with phrase «spreading among brain cells»

In some brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, distorted proteins behave like infectious agents, spreading among brain cells and corrupting other proteins.

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It is particularly difficult to control because it does not grow as a round, well - circumscribed mass — instead, because astrocytes» main job is to travel among the neurons, it is able to send out fingerlike projections throughout the brain, essentially creating tiny, multiple «highways» that spread malignant cells with extreme efficiency.