Sentences with phrase «to damage nerve cells»

Chronic use of laxatives, even herbal laxatives, causes the muscles to become dependent on laxatives, and some can even damage the nerve cells in the wall of the colon.

«This scientific breakthrough could bring us closer to repairing damaged nerve cells following injuries to the central nervous system,» states Dr. Charron.

The study showed that a peripheral nerve injury in rats sends a message from damaged nerve cells to spinal cord immune cells known as glial cells, which normally act as «housekeepers» to clear out unwanted debris and microorganisms.

New research published today out of the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) uncovers a mechanism to promote growth in damaged nerve cells as a means to restore connections after injury.

This attack damages nerve cells, leading to a host of symptoms including numbness, fatigue, difficulty walking, paralysis and loss of vision.

In August researchers announced the creation of a microscopic device that can make an electrical connection to an individual neuron, an invention that might one day lead to synthetic substitutes for damaged nerve cells.

In the new study, Zigmond and colleagues found damaged nerve cells produce a stream of molecular lures that specifically attract neutrophils to injury sites in mice.

Plaque hinders neuronal activity by gumming up synapses (spaces between cells through which chemical or electrical information is transmitted), eventually damaging nerve cell branches and leading to neuronal death.

Piezoelectric motors can move the 12 electrodes in small 1 - micrometre increments and will back off when necessary to avoid damaging nerve cells.

Glial cells, when activated, produce proinflammatory cytokines that may further damage the nerve cells.

«Research findings have implications for regenerating damaged nerve cells.»

Based on years of scientific research into the root causes of the condition, the device uses precisely timed sounds and weak electrical pulses that activate touch - sensitive nerves, both aimed at steering damaged nerve cells back to normal activity.

Neuroscientists have long believed that scar tissue formed by glial cells — the cells that surround neurons in the central nervous system — impedes damaged nerve cells from regrowing after a brain or spinal cord injury.

They clean up, but can also damage the nerve cell tissue through enzymes they release.

These results support the hypothesis that that all the symptoms and disease courses observed in MS patients are produced by the same underlying mechanisms that damage nerve cells over time.

Despite behavioral and neurological concerns, brain areas normally affected by HD, the striatum and cortex, did not contain damaged nerve cells.

Two new studies involving the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia have identified a unique molecule that not only gobbles up bad cells, but also has the ability to repair damaged nerve cells.

These compounds might offer an alternative to drugs such as taxol, which attacks microtubules but has the side effect of damaging some nerve cells and decreasing a patient's white blood cell and platelet count.

Huntington's disease is a genetic disorder that affects around 1 in every 10,000 people and damages nerve cells in the brain.

In the brain, Toxoplasma can hide inside cells, and trigger an inflammatory response that damages nerve cells as the immune system attempts to kill the Toxoplasma.

This attack damages the nerve cells, leading to a host of symptoms that include numbness, fatigue, difficulty walking, paralysis and loss of vision.

They also found AXIN2 in the damaged nerve cells of adults with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks myelin.

«Our hypothesis is that it's this, the damaged nerve cells» resistance to maturation that causes the disease.»

But if the HLA - A2 gene turns out to be the culprit, then the immune system is probably involved somehow in Alzheimer's symptoms, says Payami, perhaps by damaging nerve cells.

«Scientists one step closer to finding how to repair damaged nerve cells.»

Do these antibodies simply function like drugs in the brain or do they «attack» and damage nerve cells in some ways?»

This damages nerve cells by blocking their ability to make the proteins needed for synaptic function and leads to the death of neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

By this, researchers demonstrated that a peripheral nerve injury in rats would send a message from the damaged nerve cell to special spinal cord immune cells called «glial cells».

This enables the doctors to target your stem cells inside the brain to re-establish blood flow and repair damaged nerve cells (neurons).

Doctors at Okyanos utilize a specifically developed Okyanos protocol for opening up the blood brain barrier to help deliver stem cells directly to the brain; a technique that has been proven effective in independent studies This enables doctors to target your stem cells inside the brain to re-establish blood flow and repair damaged nerve cells (neurons) as well as target the restoration of myelin, halting the future progression of symptoms.

When prion proteins fold into a different shape they produce indigestible tangles, which can kill or damage nerve cells.

This creates a toxic environment within the brain that damages nerve cells and eventually leads to the debilitating symptoms of MS.

«Here, we have shown that the leakage of blood in the brain acts as an early trigger that sets off the brain's inflammatory response — creating a neurotoxic environment that damages nerve cells.»

Clumps that form from these disease proteins are composed of sticky fibrils that damage nerve cells.

The virus has been tied to Guillain - Barre syndrome, which causes the immune system to damage nerve cells.

But other ways of treating the disease, including targeting the other protein called tau that damages nerve cells, may prove important as well.

8 - hydroxy - 2 ′ - Deoxyguanosine... a measure of the DNA residue from damaged brain cells or damaged nerve cells, mostly in the brain.

In a third published study, the researchers noted that ashwagandha helped promote the growth of both normal and damaged nerve cells, suggesting that the herb may boost healthy brain cell function as well as benefit diseased nerve cells, such as those that occur in neurodegenerative diseases.

MSG is an excitotoxin which means it damages nerve cells.