How to Use neurodegenerative in a Sentence

neurodegenerative

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• The quercetin in black and red grapes has been shown to protect against neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• When things go wrong, misfolded proteins can form plaques in the brain, a process that is thought to be the cause of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• The neurodegenerative disease is thought to be caused by repetitive brain trauma, which shakes the brain inside the skull.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
• Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative disease that causes nerve cells in the brain to weaken and die.
  — Randi Richardson, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
• The first patient has ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2022
• The latter is a neurodegenerative disease with three types, one of which is Parkinson’s.
  — Michael Ellenbogen, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
• The study is the first from the UK to look at the neurodegenerative disorder in a largely diverse population.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Health.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• Patrick Quinn, the co-founder of the challenge, has died at the age of 37 after his own seven-year battle with ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• The therapies are part of an emerging field of research that tries to use the body’s own immune system to fight neurodegenerative diseases.
  — Fortune, 2 July 2021
• Pete Frates, the man with ALS who inspired and championed a social media challenge to raise awareness of the neurodegenerative disease, has died at the age of 34.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2019
• Research is mounting that this type of entrenched loneliness is bad for our health and can even change our brains, raising the risk for neurodegenerative diseases.
  — Dana G. Smith, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• In recent years Hardy and his colleagues have come to view late-onset Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases as the result of a faulty damage response.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2020
• Bertrand passed away in October, at the age of 12, from his rare neurodegenerative condition.
  — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
• In the century since his work was published, researchers have sought to develop treatments or cures for the neurodegenerative disease, to no avail.
  — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 17 Dec. 2019
• The infected deer was killed by a hunter in 2021 and sampled at that time for chronic wasting disease, a type of neurodegenerative disorder that affects deer, elk and moose.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• Researchers showed that even slight blows to the head, when repeated often enough, could result in long-term neurodegenerative disease.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• There was up to a 7% reduction in risk of death by neurodegenerative disease, such as dementia.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023
• In this role, it's linked to fending off hardening of the arteries, as well as neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.
  — Cynthia Sass, Rd, Health.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• The cause was a neurodegenerative disease, said a brother, Richard Rothblum.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
• But if someone has a neurodegenerative condition, the proteins dislodge from the neurons and can get into the bloodstream.
  — ABC News, 7 Nov. 2021
• Maltepe believes these types of treatments could even be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases or help repair the brain after a stroke.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2019
• The company threw in the towel on its painkiller dreams in 2019, changed its name to Cassava, and refocused on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
  — Cristin Flanagan, Fortune, 9 June 2021
• The rest of people living with FTD tend to have a history of neurodegenerative disease in their family.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Feb. 2023
• Doing so helped mice with a neurodegenerative disease live longer and move about more normally.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 20 Mar. 2022
• Past research indicates that these flawed cells can play a role in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinsons.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• More than a half dozen blood tests are being developed and tested to detect signs of the neurodegenerative disease in older patients.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
• The findings have implications for neurodegenerative diseases, which are thought to be caused by build-up of toxic proteins in the brain, such as amyloid-Beta in Alzheimer’s disease.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2019
• No other treatment that’s designed to target the roots of the neurodegenerative illness had ever made it that far in the development gantlet, so there was a ton of hope and excitement imbued in the study.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 13 Apr. 2021
• Research shows that polyphenols help protect against oxidative stress and lower the risk of neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, and cancer.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024
• Most people without a sense of smell lose it through infection with a virus—for example, as a symptom of Covid-19—or through traumatic brain injury or neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024