• Lead is known to be harmful to many organs and the central nervous system.

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  • Fink, with his many titles, has become the central nervous system of the Kochtopus.

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  • But he had always suspected they might interact with the central nervous system of human beings.

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  • Omega-3 fatty acids may also be an important component of the central nervous system, says Carol J.

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  • Medications that work on the central nervous system, such as antidepressants, can also mess with your cycle.

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  • But modern acupuncturists say the technique's effectiveness can be explained by an understanding of the central nervous system.

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  • Cyber warfare has already been unleashed on the computers that form the central nervous system of today's grid.

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  • Eye and respiratory tract irritant that may also affect the central nervous system.

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  • Meningitis is an aggressive disease when bacteria invade the protective membranes of the central nervous system and cause adverse inflammatory responses.

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  • It can damage the central nervous system causing paralysis and even death.

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  • Eventually Wright found a specialist and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that involves the immune system attacking the central nervous system.

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  • Chief among the contenders are a series of drugs that affect the central nervous system, with a new antidepressant and an anti-anxiety drug on deck.

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  • The firm plans to invest in three main areas: cancer, metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity, and diseases of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer's, depression and schizophrenia.

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  • Smokeless nicotine, ingested via a skin patch, is less than ideal because its effects on the body are too broad to treat diseases of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer's.

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  • Huntington's disease is an hereditary neurological disorder of the central nervous system that causes progressive degeneration of cells in the brain, slowly impairing a person's ability to walk, think, talk and reason.

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  • After 90 days, a-syn proteins resembling Lewy bodies were widely distributed throughout the central nervous system of the first group, suggesting a-syn from diseased tissues had a highly potent seeding effect, researchers said.

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  • Computer people, many of whom have usurped bankers as self-regarding Masters of the Universe, thought that the cable business would accept Microsoft's offer to take over the central nervous system of its infrastructure with due gratitude.

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  • Dr Lloyd-Evans explains that the absence of cholesterol in the brains of SLOS sufferers means that the neurons and the central nervous system are affected, causing anything from mild personality disorders to severe malformations and multi-organ disease.

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  • We've known for some time that lead is a potent neuro-toxin that can cause significant damage to a number of organs in the body, including the central nervous system, and can lead to behavioural problems in children.

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  • Elan and American Home Products have ended trials of their Alzheimer's vaccine--once seen as one of the most promising new approaches to treating the disease--after 15 patients suffered a potentially serious side effect: swelling of the central nervous system.

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  • This backlash will help define the biotech and pharmaceutical industries in the coming years, because it means over time a shift in opportunities and capital away from a search for the next psychiatric blockbuster toward solutions to more tractable human troubles that arise outside of the central nervous system.

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  • Acting as a messenger between the central nervous system and the major organs, the vagus nerve slows the heart rate (through the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine), calms the immune response (by controlling the release of proteins called cytokines), and communicates with the muscles that control respiration and digestion.

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  • The team believe that not only do the growth factors play a key role in development of the central nervous system, but also that too much of them may disrupt the normal process by which a cell develops into the correct type and moves to the right area, and dies at the right time.

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  • Windows is the operating system--the brain and central nervous system--of 90% of the world's PCs.

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  • They'd operate as the sum of many independent, relatively dumb processes--just like the autonomic functions of the human central nervous system, from which they take their name.

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  • The outbreak is of fungal meningitis, an inflammation in the brain or central nervous system.

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  • The studies excluded patients who had received prior B-cell targeted therapy or intravenous cyclophosphamide, and those who had active lupus involving the kidneys or central nervous system.

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  • Prosecutor Joe Boyd said Twin M had suffered numerous injuries, including fractures to the ribs, legs and arms and skull damage affecting the brain and central nervous system.

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  • Lupus is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of the joints, skin, major organs and central nervous system as the immune system attacks healthy tissues and cells.

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  • Effective or not, an American spy operation directed at its own citizens infects the country's central nervous system, even granting arguable gray areas.

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