How to Use neurodegenerative in a Sentence

neurodegenerative

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• 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 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 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
• 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
• 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
• But if someone has a neurodegenerative condition, the proteins dislodge from the neurons and can get into the bloodstream.
  — ABC News, 7 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• There are more than 170 clinical uses — including for neurodegenerative disorders and tumors of the brain, breast, lung, prostate and more — and the field is growing, Kassell said.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
• And follow-up studies are far easier to complete when the disease is cancer, not a neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's.
  — Elisabeth Rosenthal, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
• Kyle Brown, whose comic segments on a popular Salt Lake City radio show gave way to honest accounts of his battle with a neurodegenerative disease, has died.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• The neurodegenerative disease causes patients to lose muscle control, spreading through the body until the patient dies.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Feb. 2022
• Alzheimer’s, a neurodegenerative disease, is the most common type of dementia.
  — Betsy Morris, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022
• The ratio dropped after the cosmonauts returned, a trend that is sometimes seen in people with a neurodegenerative condition.
  — ABC News, 7 Nov. 2021
• Olfactory loss is one of the initial symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
  — Hannah Docter-Loeb, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
• Mitchell was diagnosed with ALS, a neurodegenerative disease, more than five years ago, according to a statement posted to his Instagram page.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
• At this time, there are no approved therapies to prevent the onset of these neurodegenerative diseases in those with REM sleep behavior disorder.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 29 May 2023
• For the last several years, Selma Blair has been very open about her journey with multiple sclerosis, the neurodegenerative disease she was diagnosed with in 2018.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 11 May 2022
• That could mean that a host of diseases—including chronic conditions such as heart disease and even neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s—could be treated in large part by reversing the aging process that leads to them.
  — Alice Park, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• These drugs, called acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, can help treat neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
  — Rebecca Sohn, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
• Early studies suggest that CBD may play a role in protecting against neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Olive oil can also combat oxidative stress, which harms brain health and can trigger neurodegenerative diseases.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 16 Mar. 2023
• Sinclair brings up metformin, a drug that is approved to treat diabetes, but which has also been shown to slow aging in animals and decrease neurodegenerative disease and cancer in humans.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
• Both trials, which were conducted in patients at the earliest stages of memory loss, showed a reduction in the buildup of protein fragments called beta amyloid in the brain, a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.
  — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 12 June 2021
• The group works with would-be parents who have the fatal neurodegenerative condition Huntington’s disease in their families.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 8 June 2022
• The disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- or more commonly ALS -- is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease that affects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that make the muscles of both the upper and lower body work.
  — Shawn Nottingham, CNN, 4 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024