Sentence examples for brain cells the from inspiring English sources

Blood-making stem cells are quite accessible and could perhaps be converted into dopamine-secreting brain cells, the type lost in Parkinson's disease.

A professor on his second or third drink was admonished a little too smugly by a graduate student, "You know, alcohol kills brain cells!" The professor gave the student a withering stare and growled, "Only the weak ones".

In this paper, McCulloch and Pitts created an abstract model of the brain cells — the neurons — and showed how they might be connected to carry out mental processes such as learning.

But debate still rages over whether the plaques themselves kill brain cells, the loss of which leads to dementia.

In experiments with cultured human brain cells, the team then found that overproduction of syncytin can lead to the release of free radicals, charged molecules that damage oligodendrocytes.

In cell cultures, the dosage needed to kill 40% to 80% of the cancer cells also killed 70% to 100% of healthy brain cells, the team reports in the today's issue of the Journal of Biology.

The combined effect of these helpers multiplies the capacity of any single brain cell, the authors concluded.

But the youngest brain cells in the running rats, the cells that the scientists assumed were created by running, were less likely to express the genes.

The amyloid beta protein is found outside the brain cells and the tangles are in the nerve cells.

The brain cells of the treated rats began secreting GDNF on their own.

Just like alcohol and nicotine, stress hormones cross the placenta and cause damage to the developing brain cells of the fetus.