The phrase
"to reach the brain" means that something, such as a medicine or information, is able to enter the brain and affect it.
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In humans, there is a blood brain barrier for oxytocin, and only small amounts
reach the brain via the blood stream.
The embedded drugs no longer
reach the brain through the bloodstream and must take a different route to altering perception.
His work seeks to identify how different kinds of stressful
information reach the brain and to unravel the pathways and molecules involved in conveying this information to brain centers.
That barrier protects the brain from toxins in the blood but also keeps drugs in the bloodstream from
reaching brain tumors.
Activity in touch - sensitive fibers can actually turn off shared central neurons, preventing pain signals
from reaching the brain.
After the
virus reaches the brain and spinal cord and begins to reproduce, virus particles move to other body tissues.
As a result, hearing aids help the
signals reach the brain, but the brain may not be able to process the signals, making the hearing aid less effective.
Unlike visual and auditory information, which travel through much more circuitry
before reaching the brain's language network, smell data seems to come in rough and unedited.
In fact, in both rats and human cadavers, Buzsáki's team found about 75 percent of currents applied to the scalp
never reach the brain, but instead are taken up by the skull, scalp and other external tissues.
By showing that this drug
reaches brain tumours, we are in a much stronger position to use it to make current treatments more effective.»
In their mouse experiments, the animals were exposed to a strain of the rabies virus that generally
reaches the brain of infected mice within three days.
An article published on August 28th in PLOS Pathogens sheds light on how the virus hijacks the transport system in nerve cells to
reach the brain with maximal speed and efficiency.
Its effects are so potent and immediate — crack
reaches the brain within 20 heartbeats of inhalation — that a single hit can hook you.
Neurological signs also occur — such as bizarre behavioral traits — caused by toxic
chemicals reaching the brain and triggering strange behaviors.
These chemical cocktails [embedded in the paintings] can no
longer reach the brain through the bloodstream and must take a different route to altering perception.
Hawthorn Berry's high vitamin C content helps to strengthen tiny capillaries in the brain, opening them and resulting in more nutrients and
oxygen reaching the brain.
Basically he said that if the
disease reaches his brain and he is no longer lucid, you should no longer pay attention or take his words seriously.
The body is structured to ensure that any invading organisms have a tough
time reaching the brain, an organ obviously critical to survival.
It involves surgically implanting a kind of pacemaker for the brain that delivers small electrical pulses to hard - to -
reach brain areas.
«Our research shows that targeting cannabinoid receptors in the periphery with pharmacological inhibitors that do not
reach the brain holds promise as a safe therapeutic approach for the treatment of overeating and diet - induced obesity,» said Nicholas V. DiPatrizio, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the School of Medicine, who led the research project.
With this model, the researchers showed how the energy from a blast wave can
easily reach the brain through openings such as the eyes and sinuses — and also how covering the face with a mask can prevent such injuries.
Cytokines can
reach the brain several ways: directly through the blood - brain barrier or indirectly by binding to nerve fibers elsewhere, which send signals to the brain to produce the inflammation molecules.
Xenon reaches the brain within a few minutes after inhalation, so if these preliminary results translate to humans it could be a viable treatment option after blasts occur.
Instead, such drugs could target the kidney or liver, ridding the blood of a toxic protein before it
ever reaches the brain.
The researchers say they will continue to explore how information about ejaculation or successful
mating reaches the brain.