Brain Diseases - Physiopathology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Zinc: the brain's dark horse.

30 Oct 2009 Zinc is a life-sustaining trace element, serving structural, catalytic, and regulatory roles in cellular biology. It is required for normal mammalian brain development and physiology, such that deficiency or excess of zinc has been shown to ... Read more...

Innate and adaptive autoimmunity directed to the central nervous system.

13 Oct 2009 The immune system has two major components, an innate arm and an adaptive arm. Certain autoimmune diseases of the brain represent examples of disorders where one of these constituents plays a major role. Some rare autoimmune diseases involve ... Read more...

Taking advantage of the systemic immune system to cure brain diseases.

13 Oct 2009 The systemic immune system has the ability to modulate multiple brain functions, including autonomic responses, glial reactivity following neural injuries, and neuronal excitability. Immune stimuli also influence microglia subpopulations originating ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Brain Diseases - Physiopathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Zinc: the brain's dark horse. 30 Oct 2009
• Innate and adaptive autoimmunity directed to the central nervous system. 13 Oct 2009
• Taking advantage of the systemic immune system to cure brain diseases. 13 Oct 2009
• The promise of epidemiologic studies: neuroimmune mechanisms in the etiologies of brain disorders. 13 Oct 2009
• Viral infection leading to brain dysfunction: more prevalent than appreciated? 13 Oct 2009
• Primary focal dystonia -- a disease of brain and mind: motor and psychiatric manifestations have a common neurobiological basis. 29 Sep 2009
• Reflections: neurology and the humanities. 6 Sep 2009
• A method for accurate group difference detection by constraining the mixing coefficients in an ICA framework. 30 Aug 2009
• Hypoxia-induced mediators and neurologic disease. 16 Aug 2009
• Biomaterials for promoting brain protection, repair and regeneration. 3 Aug 2009
• Effect of chorioamnionitis on brain development and injury in premature newborns. 30 Jul 2009
• Effect of chorioamnionitis on brain development and injury in premature newborns. 30 Jul 2009
• The antioxidant Cerebralcare Granule attenuates cerebral microcirculatory disturbance during ischemia-reperfusion injury. 30 Jul 2009
• Human brain networks in health and disease. 30 Jul 2009
• Arterial spin-labeled perfusion MRI in basic and clinical neuroscience. 30 Jul 2009
• Autonomic-mediated immunomodulation and potential clinical relevance. 19 Jul 2009
• Neural networks engaged in milliseconds and seconds time processing: evidence from transcranial magnetic stimulation and patients with cortical or subcortical dysfunction. 10 Jul 2009
• Coin rotation task (CRT): a new test of motor dexterity. 8 Jul 2009
• White matter lesions in spastic paraplegia. 22 Jun 2009
• Modeling the impact of lesions in the human brain. 10 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Brain Diseases'

Definition: Pathologic conditions affecting the BRAIN, which is composed of the intracranial components of the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. This includes (but is not limited to) the CEREBRAL CORTEX; intracranial white matter; BASAL GANGLIA; THALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; BRAIN STEM; and CEREBELLUM.

Descriptor UI: D001927

Alternative terms: Brain Diseases; Brain Disease; Central Nervous System Disorders, Intracranial; Intracranial CNS Disorders; CNS Disorders, Intracranial; CNS Disorder, Intracranial; Intracranial CNS Disorder; Encephalon Diseases; Encephalon Disease; Intracranial Central Nervous System Disorders; Brain Disorders; Brain Disorder; Central Nervous System Intracranial Disorders; Pathology, Brain; Brain Pathology;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.228.140;