How to Use neurodegenerative in a Sentence

neurodegenerative

adjective
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Rats trained in complex skills might be better models of the more subtle changes that occur in some neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Early research has established a likely link between contact sports like football and Parkinson’s, as well as other neurodegenerative diseases.
    Randi Richardson, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Such antisense oligonucleotide drugs, injected into spinal fluid, have been approved to treat two rare neurodegenerative diseases.
    Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 12 Sep. 2024

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