"It's pretty alarming." New research suggests vulnerable spot in blood-brain barrier allows microplastic penetration — here's ...

This potential entry point was suggested by researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of São Paulo. It ...

Microglia are the brain's resident immune cells. Their job is to patrol the brain's blood vessels looking for invading ...

Humans have two olfactory bulbs, one above each nasal cavity which connects the olfactory bulb and the nasal cavity is the olfactory nerve. Researchers say that the olfactory pathway can be an entry ...

And the olfactory system has the striking ability to elicit powerful emotions, feelings, and memories, thereby impacting quality of life. These qualities, and our resulting, inherent attraction to ...

"So when you breathe through your nose, your olfactory nerve directly samples particles and reacts to the particles that you are inhaling as a direct sensory mechanism," said Dr. Wells Brambl ...

It is in the nose, where there are special nerves, the olfactory nerves, that detect smells. The olfactory nerves run from the inside of the nose, through the skull, and then directly into part of ...

Seven primary odors are distinguished, each of them by an appropriately shaped receptor at the olfactory nerve endings By John E. Amoore , James W. Johnston Jr. & Martin Rubin 0 0 ...

Connecting the olfactory bulb and the nasal cavity is the olfactory nerve. Some researchers worry the olfactory pathway may also be an entry point for microplastics getting into the brain ...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Oct. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeOnc Technologies Holdings, Inc., a clinical-stage medical ...

Small plastic particles are everywhere: in the soil where our food is grown, in the water we drink and in the air we breathe. They got there from the plastic we throw away, which ends up in landfill ...

For the first time, scientists have detected microscopic microplastics lodged in the human brain. Researchers in Germany and Brazil say that 8 out of 15 autopsied adults had microplastics detected ...