Sentences with phrase «treat brain infections»
The finding raises the possibility that drugs could be delivered by this same route to treat brain infections or diseases such as Alzheimer's or cancer.
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The drug they identified is a powerful agent that is already used clinically to treat severe fungal infections of the brain and spinal cord.
Pattnaik and other Nebraska scientists continue to investigate how the virus breaks the barrier between the brain and the bloodstream and to develop a drug that could be used to treat Zika infection.
Infection with Bb led to many histopathologic findings in infected animals not treated with dexamethasone, such as leptomeningitis, vasculitis, focal inflammation in the brain and spinal cord, and necrotizing focal neurodegeneration and demyelination in the cervical spinal cord.
Tamoxifen, a drug currently used to treat breast cancer, also kills a fungus that causes a deadly brain infection in immunocompromised patients.
To treat neurological illnesses, researchers are learning how to smuggle drugs past the shield that guards the brain against infection
Drugs used in a handful of previous cases of Ebola virus disease, convalescent serum, ZMapp etc., are antibody - based so not suitable to treat infections of the brain.
You can eat it, cook with it, apply on your skin, treat infections, nourish your brain, heal all sorts of illnesses and more.
A major advantage of this antibiotic still in modern veterinary medicine is in treating neurologic or brain infections, where this drug often reaches higher therapeutic levels than many other drugs.
Fluconazole is related to ketoconazole, but it is more successful in treating infections of the central nervous system (CNS) because it more effectively crosses the blood - brain barrier, allowing the medication to find its way to the infected areas of the body.