Sentences with phrase «surrounding brain fluid»

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a serious bacteria disease that can lead to bacterial meningitis or a swelling and infection of the fluid surround the brain and spinal cord.

Hydrocephalus occurs when the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord builds up in the ventricles of the brain.

The brain is a soft organ surrounded by spinal fluid that acts like a cushion during normal movement.

In rare cases, vomiting can be a symptom of a serious condition, such as a blockage of the digestive tract (pyloric stenosis), an infection (meningitis) of the fluid (cerebrospinal fluid) and tissues (meninges) that surround the brain and spinal cord, or Reye syndrome.

Besides carefully mapping the participants» specific symptoms, the scientists also tested their cognitive abilities and measured levels of different proteins in their blood and CSF, a fluid that surrounds the brain and that thus gives a good indication of its chemistry.

The exact location of neural activity is far more difficult to discern via EEG than with many other, more invasive methods because the skull, scalp, and cerebral fluid surrounding the brain scatter its electric signals before they reach the electrodes.

Working primarily with mice, senior author and University of Virginia neuroscience professor Jonathan Kipnis and his group identified a hitherto undetected network of lymphatic vessels in the meninges — the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord — that shuttle fluid and immune cells from the cerebrospinal fluid to the deep cervical lymph nodes in the neck.

However, significant differences emerged when the researchers looked at sodium concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid, the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, providing a cushion for the brain while also helping to ensure chemical stability for proper brain function.

The researchers injected the compound into the fluid surrounding the brains of newborn mice.

Intrathecal chemotherapy involves delivering anti-cancer drugs directly into the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and spine.

Immunologist Steven Schutzer of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey examined samples of cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, from patients with each syndrome.

To see if they could avoid the negative impact on the lungs while still being effective at treating neurological symptoms, the researchers then tried to give the compound directly into the fluid surrounding the brain, starting when the cats were three weeks old and repeating the dose every two weeks.

Chemotherapy generally has not been used to treat brain cancer, because of the blood - brain barrier that exists between the bloodstream and the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain.

These spaces surround the blood vessels that drain brain fluid and communicate with the lymph system; widening of these VR spaces is seen in the elderly but rarely in the young.

Treatment of the mice with insulin, either by normal injection or injection into the fluid surrounding the brain, reversed the process.

Scientists studied the amount of fluid that surrounded the brain and spinal cords of those involved in the study, who ranged 30 to 60 years of age.

We've been able to get around this by injecting them directly into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the fluid surrounding and cushioning the brain and spinal cord.

Inside the skull, a cushion of fluid surrounds the brain, further protecting it.

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collection is a test to examine the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.

Craniosacral therapy: Sounds weird, feels great These therapists use very light touch to, as they say, evaluate and enhance the craniosacral system, or the membranes and fluids surrounding the brain and spinal cord.

the craniosacral system is made up of the fluid and surrounding membranes that serve to protect the brain and spinal cord.

Massage therapists that perform craniosacral therapy also target the membranes and cerebrospinal fluids that surround and cushion the brain and spinal cord from injury during a therapy session.

The craniosacral system consists of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord.

University of Washington researchers have found that people who munched a high - fat diet loaded with foods that make blood sugar soar — like sugary drinks, candy, desserts and white - flour breads and crackers — for four weeks had changes in the fluid that surrounds the brain that looked like very early Alzheimer's.7 In contrast, a lower - fat diet that included carbs that raise blood sugar more slowly (such as fiber - rich whole grains, beans, vegetables and fruit), was beneficial — and even improved memory.

This causes the fluid that surrounds the brain to be forced through a smaller - than - normal opening into the spinal cord.

Evaluating the fluid that surrounds the brain and spine can help with the diagnosis of meningitis / encephalitis (inflammation of the nervous system).

CSF is the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, providing both nutrients and protection.

Another test for distemper involves looking for the virus in the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord (cerebral spinal fluid).

The resulting pressure on the cerebellum and brain stem may affect functions conrolled by these areas and block the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-- the clear fluid that surrounds and cushions the brain and spinal cord going to and from the brain.

A test of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal column (cerebral spinal fluid or CSF) can diagnose distemper, but CSF analysis is an expensive, somewhat dangerous test.

Distemper can also be diagnosed by a test of the fluid surrounding the brain and the spinal column (cerebral spinal fluid).

It also helps brain health by maintaining SAMe levels in the fluid surrounding the brain.