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Scientists reveal how exercise protects brain from Alzheimer's: Study
Updated : 3 weeks ago IST
Exercise may sharpen the mind by repairing the brain's protective shield. Researchers found that physical activity prompts the liver to release an enzyme that removes a harmful protein, causing the blood-brain barrier to become leaky with age.
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Researchers identify vascular changes in brain linked to Alzheimer's disea
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The network of blood channels and tissues known as the blood-brain barrier, which nourishes and shields the brain from dangerous chemicals flowing in the blood, is compromised in Alzheimer's disease.
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Lipid molecules help to get stroke therapies into brain: Study
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Researchers are increasingly using the blood-brain barrier, which lets only particular chemicals from the blood into the brain, to get medicines into the brain after a stroke.
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Researchers reveal how lipid molecules help in therapies to get into the
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Researchers are increasingly using the blood-brain barrier, which allows only certain molecules to pass from the blood into the brain, to get therapies into the brain after a stroke.
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Study suggests how cancer spreads to the brain
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Options for treatment are limited when cancer spreads to the brain. The majority of medications made to fight metastases either cannot penetrate the blood-brain barrier or are ineffective against brain metastases.
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Researchers give new insights into treatment of Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
In Alzheimer's disease, a small protein known as amyloid beta misfolds to intermediates that aggregate into larger macromolecular structures known as fibrils and plaques
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Study reveals why brain cells are needed for fever
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The body's response to infection or inflammation is fever, which also serves as a defence mechanism against things like viruses and bacteria. The body releases molecules called cytokines into the bloodstream when it is infected or inflammatory. The blood-brain barrier, a system of microscopi
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Researchers find new functions for blood-brain barrier in neuron function
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 17 (ANI): Researchers have made a surprising discovery linking Delta/Notch signalling in subperineurial glia (SPG) to the regulation of nerve ensheathment and neurotransmitter release at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ). SPG, the counterpart of the endothel
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Do you know iron buildup in brain linked to higher risk for movement disor
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
San Diego (California) [US] August 2 (ANI): The body absorbs too much iron due to a condition known as hereditary hemochromatosis, which is brought on by a gene mutation. This causes tissue damage and diseases like liver disease, heart disease, and diabetes. However, scant and conflicting re
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When is chemotherapy most effective? Research suggests, it varies with tim
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Morgantown (West Virginia) [US], January 27 (ANI): Brain tumours are among the trickiest to treat as the blood-brain barrier keeps foreign substances like germs and toxins from entering the brain. By shielding the brain from things that would harm it, the blood-brain barrier also blocks the
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Some blood pressure-lowering medicines linked to less memory decline in ol
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 22 (ANI): Older adults taking blood pressure-lowering medications known to cross the blood-brain barrier had better memory recall over time compared to those taking other types of medicines to treat high blood pressure, according to a new research.
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To treat brain disorder, scientists develop nanoparticle drug-delivery sys
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 3 (ANI): To facilitate successful delivery of therapeutic agents to the brain, a team of bioengineers, physicians, and collaborators at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital created a nanoparticle platform, which can facilitate therapeutically e
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