Sentence examples for brain and the peripheral from inspiring English sources

The blood brain barrier (BBB) constitutes a distinctive and tightly regulated interface between the brain and the peripheral circulation.

In mammals, many aspects of energy metabolism including glucose and lipid metabolism are coordinated by biological clocks residing in both brain and the peripheral tissues (Rutter et al., 2002; Wijnen and Young, 2006).

There are many indices of oxidative stress, but this review covers the recent evidence for oxidative damage to nucleic acids, lipids, and proteins in both the brain and the peripheral tissues in human PD and in the rotenone model.

For a long time, the blood brain barrier (BBB) was basically considered as a barrier isolating the brain from circulating cholesterol, however, several lines of evidence now suggest that the BBB strictly regulates the exchanges of sterol between the brain and the peripheral circulation.

Many different cell types from the brain and the peripheral tissues produce these peptides.

The regulation of virus replication in the brain and the peripheral blood may be different because productively infected cells in brain are of macrophage-lineage, in contrast to CD4+ lymphocyte in the peripheral blood and immune tissues [9] [13].

His laboratory made major contributions to our understanding of how nerves are protected and nurtured by the myelin sheath in the brain and in the peripheral nervous system, and how nerve cells communicate with each other across the synapse.

Monoamine oxidases (MAO) are flavin-containing mitochondrial enzymes that catalyze the oxidative deamination of neurotransmitters and biogenic amides in the brain and in the peripheral tissue.

BAG3 is a cellular protein that is expressed predominantly in skeletal and cardiac muscle but can also be found in the brain and in the peripheral nervous system.

Studies using animal models have shown that conditions linked to metabolic and cardiovascular dysfunction, e.g. obesity, diabetes, heart disease, can be modified by manipulation of BDNF in the brain and in the peripheral circulation [6].

This view has changed dramatically, however, as it became clear that morphological 'delegates' of the immune system, the microglial cells, are present in the brain and that the peripheral lymphoid organs are innervated.