Assertion: msg | /r/CapableOf | kill brain cells
Facets:
value: in the area of the hypothalamus
type: LOCATION
value: in laboratory animals
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In the 1980s, faced with overwhelming evidence that monosodium glutamate kills brain cells in laboratory animals, industry researchers changed their strategy.
text: MSG fed to very young laboratory animals, kills brain cells in the area of the hypothalamus, and, through that damage, causes a number of endocrine disorders.
text: When I was first introduced to “umami” I had a creeping suspicion that the concept of umami had been promoted in an effort to legitimize the use of monosodium glutamate in food, drawing attention away from the fact that monosodium glutamate is a neurotoxic amino acid which kills brain cells, is an endocrine disruptor (causing obesity and reproductive disorders), and is the trigger for reactions such as asthma, migraine headache, seizures, depression, irritable bowel, hives, and heart irregularities.
text: Sometime after Olney and others demonstrated that monosodium glutamate was an excitotoxin -- killing brain cells and disrupting the endocrine system --
text: In 1969, following Olney’s demonstration that monosodium glutamate kills brain cells in the area of the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus, the glutamate industry sponsored animal studies that claimed to replicate the work of Olney and others but did not do so.