Unlike the skin or hair, which wrinkle and gray, the brain is protected from the sun and fading away.
The immune system, it would seem, is ignorant of antigens sequestered within neurons, providing an explanation of how the brain is protected from potentially damaging autoimmune disease.
Since the brain is protected from exogenous sources of damage by the cranium and the blood brain barrier, DNA lesions in the brain result predominantly from endogenous sources.
Fiala et al., (1997) found that early after the infection, the brain is protected from HIV-1 by the BBB [ 51].
In normal circumstances, the brain is protected from free radical attack by antioxidant mechanisms that include antioxidant enzymes (for example, SOD and GSH-Px) and free radical scavenging substances (for example, ascorbate, vitamin E and protein sulfhydryls) [ 24, 25, 30- 34].
"But to ensure that all children in Ukraine are protected from brain damage associated with iodine deficiency, this commitment needs to be reflected at the highest political level.
Thirty-seven per cent of births take place in baby friendly hospitals and 51 per cent of newborns are protected from brain damage owing to iodine deficiency.
Neurons in the brain, unlike cells in the periphery, are protected from large-scale autophagy induction because they can use several different energy sources optimally, receive additional nutrients and neurotrophin support from glial cells, and benefit from hypothalamic regulation of peripheral nutrient supplies.
Nbeal2 −/− mice show defects in primary thrombus formation and are protected from inflammatory brain infarction following focal cerebral ischaemia [53,54].
Mammalian GABAergic neurons are protected from ivermectin by the blood brain-barrier and therefore relatively unaffected blood brain-barrier
