Amyloid Quotes & Sayings

This brings us to the latest area being explored in connection with low-intensity lasers: Alzheimer's disease, the commonest kind of dementia. The Alzheimer's brain is also inflamed, and the mitochondria have difficulty functioning and show signs of aging called oxidative stress, which is a kind of "rusting" of the molecules. Lights, which improve general cellular functioning in the brain, can improve all three conditions - inflammation, mitochondrial problems, and oxidative stress.* The hallmark of Alzheimer's is that the neurons build up excess misshapen proteins, called tau proteins and amyloid proteins, to form plaques that lead to degeneration. — Norman Doidge

When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status. — Steve Irwin

Love isn't really a choice. Freak or not, once you love, you're screwed. — Dorian Zari

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head. — Elizabeth Bibesco

I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all. — Samuel Beckett

A team from Sydney, Australia, has lowered levels of these proteins using light. They implanted human genes associated with Alzheimer's into mouse DNA, so that the animals developed abnormal tau proteins and amyloid plaques. Then they treated them for a month with low-level light therapy, simply by holding the light one to two centimeters above the animals' heads. Using the same spectrum of near-infrared light that has helped in traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease, and retinal damage, they lowered both the pathological tau proteins and the amyloid plaques by 70 percent in key brain areas that Alzheimer's affects. Thereafter signs of "rusting" decreased, and the mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cells, improved their function. — Norman Doidge

I have the uncanny feeling that, just at the end of my life, I am beginning to reinhabit completely the body I long ago left. — Alice Walker

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. — John Sebastian

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. — Willa Cather

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on. — Will Arnett

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it. — George Will

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age. — Margaret Atwood

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire. — Benjamin Franklin

I'm afraid my vagina does not understand tonight's mission. — Krista Ritchie

But first my feet will freeze and then
my legs and then my insides, they will all turn to ice. And my blood, too, and
my heart, and I will forget. — Paullina Simons

Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential. — Saul Bellow

Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer's victims. — Michael Greger

It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities. — Eric Kandel

Producers say things that they would like to see in the movie but they don't see the full picture. In the end if you ignore everything the producers say, of course, you get fired; but then if you listen to a producer on everything then it's like 'Hey - why don't you direct your own movie?' — Ryuhei Kitamura