News tagged with nerve tract
Stealthy leprosy pathogen evades critical vitamin D-dependent immune response
A team of UCLA scientists has found that the pathogen that causes leprosy has a remarkable ability to avoid the human immune system by inhibiting the antimicrobial responses important to our defenses.
Jan 29, 2012 |
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Award-winning research points toward Alzheimer's vaccine
An accomplice to the protein that causes plaque buildup in Alzheimer's disease is the focus of a potential new treatment, according to research by a Georgia Health Sciences University graduate student.
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Sep 26, 2011 |
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What causes motor complications of Parkinson's treatment?
People with Parkinson's disease commonly suffer a slowing or freezing of movement caused by the death of neurons that make dopamine, a key chemical that allows brain cells to send and receive messages essential ...
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Study shows genital herpes can reactivate even during high dose antiviral therapy
A study combining three trials of antiviral therapy to treat genital herpes (herpes simplex virus type 2/HSV-2) has shown that the virus can reactivate in 'breakthrough episodes' even when doses of antiviral therapy are high. ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Stroke: Restructuring the brain
(Medical Xpress) -- Neuroscientists are exploring the structural changes in the brain’s white and grey matter that underlie learning. Understanding the precise cellular nature of those changes may improve ...
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Dec 06, 2011 |
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How the brain strings words into sentences
(Medical Xpress) -- Distinct neural pathways are important for different aspects of language processing, researchers have discovered, studying patients with language impairments caused by neurodegenerative ...
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Nov 24, 2011 |
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Scientists: Lions and tigers roar a bit like babies cry
When lions and tigers roar loudly and deeply – terrifying every creature within earshot – they are somewhat like human babies crying for attention, although their voices are much deeper.
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Spinal cord injuries associated with increased risk of heart disease
New research from the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation may help explain why people with spinal cord injury (SCI) have a higher risk of developing heart disease.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Sperm discoveries shed light on infertility and birth control
(Medical Xpress) -- For a sperm cell, a lot has to go right before it can fertilize an egg. And despite biblical stories of barren women and cultural traditions of blaming the female, fertility experts now ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Two brain halves, one perception
Our brain is divided into two hemispheres, which are linked through only a few connections. However, we do not seem to have a problem to create a coherent image of our environment – our perception is ...
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Sep 01, 2011 |
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Researchers identify possible trigger point of epileptic seizures
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a brain-circuit defect that triggers absence seizures, the most common form of childhood epilepsy.
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Aug 22, 2011 |
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The secret life of millipedes
Male adult helminthomorph millipedes usually have one or two pairs of legs from their seventh segment modified into sexual appendages. These specialized gonopods are used as claspers to hold the female during ...
Aug 21, 2011 |
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No substantial link between swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barre syndrome, confirm experts
Adjuvanted vaccines used during the 2009 swine flu pandemic did not increase the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome substantially, if at all, finds a large Europe-wide study published in the British Medical Journal today. ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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