It might be able to selectively turn off brain cells that are overactive, as in epilepsy.
An optogenetics device could hit more specific subsets of brain cells than those devices can.
In its wake, it leaves a trail of mucky plaques where brain cells used to be.
But dimebon didn't decrease the amount of amyloid produced by mouse brain cells in a dish.
After a stroke, far too much glutamate is released, overworking nearby brain cells until they expire.
The brain cells keep firing instead of discharging electrical energy in a controlled manner.
There may be an optimal level of protein production inside brain cells needed for learning.
The COMT enzyme breaks down chemicals such as dopamine which transmit messages between brain cells.
They found specifically that brain cells releasing glutamate can influence the activity of cells that release dopamine.
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It does so, Selkoe's lab figured out, by boosting the secretion of amyloid fragments by brain cells.
Doctors believe that the anti-inflammatory effects of the painkillers, called NSAIDS, may help keep brain cells alive.
"They both have slightly different ways of helping brain cells talk to each other longer, " says Snyder.
But during adolescence the brain then ruthlessly prunes connections between brain cells, synapses, in the grey matter.
Tests in primates had suggested NA-1 prevented brain cells dying when a stroke starved them of oxygen.
In theory, higher levels of ARC could mean that brain cells were less likely to be destroyed.
Researchers can then turn on and off just those brain cells in laboratory animals and see what happens.
Our inventions will always be shadowed by uncertainty, by the serendipity of brain cells making a new connection.
The technique begins with the placing of light-sensitive proteins from green algae inside specific types of brain cells.
Brain cells communicate with each other by releasing chemicals across the synapse -- the space between the cells.
By blocking the benzodiazepine site on gamma receptors in the brain, these medications hyperpolarize neurons (i.e. brain cells).
New research is providing insight into how stress can shrink your brain cells and prematurely age your immune system.
The viruses used to deliver the light-sensitive proteins can be engineered to target very specific clusters of brain cells.
Medivation believes that dimebon helps brain cells work better by improving the function of cellular energy factories called mitochondria.
But new technology provides a way to highlight the proteins that distort communication between brain cells in Alzheimer's patients.
The modified flies had just as many of these brain cells at 20 days as on their first day.
Steroids are also given to reduce brain swelling by stopping extra fluid entering brain cells and increasing their volume.
We hypothesize that the plaque leads to inflammation that injures brain cells, and ultimately leads to cell death and dementia.
The enzyme normally is involved in repairing damaged DNA, but in this instance it gobbles up brain cells' energy stores.
Her experiments suggest that blocking the protein hit by gamma secretase will kill brain cells over the long term.
The enzyme is normally involved in repairing damaged DNA, but in this instance it gobbles up brain cells' energy stores.
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