But for those with the conventional wiring of the nervous system, nothing is quite like short-selling.
ALS, a disease of the nervous system, impairs muscle movement and eventually results in total paralysis.
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These cells are involved in the development of the nervous system and other tissues.
Polio (also called poliomyelitis) is highly infectious and affects the nervous system, sometimes resulting in paralysis.
They believe high levels of the chemical may make the nervous system less responsive to danger signs.
The problem, apparently, was that the large and fragile proteins were not readily absorbed into the nervous system.
PT141 is a copy of a hormone which has an effect on the nervous system called alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone.
The goal is to prevent the degeneration of the nervous system and brain that is caused by the disease.
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Mercury can harm the nervous system of an unborn child if the fish is eaten regularly by its mother.
For the moment, Dr Dugan is more interested in using fullerenes to probe the workings of the nervous system.
The second question is how does the nervous system translate so many different chemical structures into different perceptions and behaviors.
Guillain Barre syndrome is a disease of the nervous system which causes numbness and weakness and a degree of paralysis.
Dr Steven Goldman told the BBC that "myelin was produced throughout the nervous system" and some mice had achieved "normal life spans".
She told the BBC he had been in and out of hospital recently after falling ill with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disease affecting the nervous system.
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In recent years, he also suffered from Shy-Drager, a condition similar to Parkinson's disease that attacks the nervous system and affects muscle control.
The potential dysfunction of the immune system as a driver for abnormalities in the nervous system has researchers interested in a possible link.
Targacept's drug is designed to bind to the same regulators in the nervous system that react to nicotine, the so-called neuronal nicotinic receptors, or nnrs.
The chickenpox virus (called varicella zoster virus) remains inactive within the nervous system but may show up as shingles in about 20 percent of people.
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Surprisingly, the neural stem cells made their way far and wide in the developing embryos, from the nervous system to the liver, lung and intestine.
Children born with two faulty copies of the gene develop the disease, which destroys the nervous system, and usually die by the age of five.
"It's like the volume knob on the nervous system, " says DeBethizy.
Nerve agents stop the body from breaking down the acetylcholine neurotransmitter, overwhelming the nervous system and causing convulsions that can lead to death within minutes of exposure.
Up to a third of cases are fatal and those who survive may face memory loss, impaired cognition and motor difficulties (the virus affects the nervous system).
Lammi-Keefe also plans to look into whether omega-3s are important in preventing memory loss and stemming the effects of Alzheimer's and other diseases related to the nervous system.
Organophosphates, which kill pests by attacking the nervous system, have previously been linked to developmental delays and attention problems in young children who were exposed in the womb.
He injected stem cells he had cultured from his patients into mouse brains and found that they successfully differentiated into the various cell types found in the nervous system.
Researcher Professor Staffan Ahnve told the BBC News website that it was possible drinking wine helped to calm the nervous system, which might have a beneficial effect on heart rhythm.
When it is injected into muscle, the AAV particles are sucked up by the hand-like protrusions connecting muscles with the nervous system, all the way back up into the spinal cord.
In 1972 Sydney Brenner, a biologist then at Cambridge University, decided to work out the connections of every cell in the nervous system of a small nematode worm called C. elegans.
Takeshita Noboru is hospitalized for treatment of spondylitis deformans, a spinal deformation caused by aging which puts pressure on the nervous system and causes back pain and paralysis in the limbs.
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