Sentences with phrase «for brain slices»

(D) For brain slices treated with CM - MK801, AMPAR - mediated mEPSC amplitude was increased in PLE − VTA DA neurons following cocaine treatment.

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Mother Nature tries to drop us subtle hints... walnuts are good for brain health and they resemble a brain, carrots are good for eye health and when sliced crosswise resemble an eye, a bulb of ginger root mimics the shape of the stomach and ginger is great for settling an upset stomach.

understanding of why added sugar isn't ideal for a school kid about to start their day of learning and the function of oats as a good fuel for brain power PLUS the taste acceptance of say a bowl of plain cheerios sweetened with a banana slices (which means the kids couldn't pick juice) is a lot to ask a 5 or 8 year old to accomplish in 5 days.

So Yang Shi and her PhD advisor, neurologist David Holtzman at Washington University were in for a surprise when they peeked at a set of brain slices from mice engineered to produce tau pathology.

Within hours of his demise in 1955, Albert Einstein's brain was salvaged, sliced into 240 pieces and stored in jars for safekeeping.

A two - week - old animal is ideal, actually, because at that stage slices of the brain preserve extremely well for 24 to 48 hours.

Five years ago Viviana Gradinaru was slicing thin pieces of mouse brain in a neurobiology lab, slowly compiling images of the two - dimensional slivers for a three - dimensional computer rendering.

Scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle are using microscopy to directly observe gene activity, one at a time, in razor - thin slices of mouse brain tiBrain Science in Seattle are using microscopy to directly observe gene activity, one at a time, in razor - thin slices of mouse brain tibrain tissue.

In this study, the researchers from Imperial's Department of Surgery and Cancer and the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, applied xenon to slices of mouse brain tissue after exposing them to blast shockwaves that emulated those produced by improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The Soak The first step in preparing for the whole - brain slicing takes months: The organ soaks in formaldehyde until it becomes rubbery.

This brain slice from a human autopsy has taken on vivid color in the hands of a neuroscientist: green from infection by a lentivirus, red for neurons, blue for the nuclei of brain cells.

Here at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, donated specimens are sliced up, preserved, stored, and eventually parceled out to neuroscientists worldwide who study them for clues to disease, cognition, and the mysterious cellular underpinnings of psychology.

When the team compared brain slices from the two groups of rats, they discovered that in the intact animals, more CREB molecules carried a phosphate group — a crucial step for their activation.

Digging for the root of the problem, the team experimented with slices of brain from the mutant mice.

Resting - state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) time series of each participant was acquired for a period of 8 min on a 3 tesla magnetic resonance imaging scanner [three - dimensional PRESTO, repetition time / echo time 22 ms / 32 ms, flip angle 9 °; SENSE p / s 2/2; a dynamic scan time of 0.5 s, 1000 time frames; field of view 256 × 256 mm, voxel size 4 × 4 × 4 mm, 32 slices covering whole brain (supplemental material, available at www.jneurosci.org)-RSB-.

Long - term goal of the project will be to visualize and manipulate tau expression also in a systemic context (organotypic slice preparations, mouse brain) by affecting the function of tau mRNA - containing neuronal granules as a potential drug target for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

To illustrate the discovery for me, Roy called up an image of a magnified brain slice in the lab.

A two - culture method for exposure of human brain organotypic slice cultures to replicating human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

Intracellular studies in the facial nucleus illustrating a simple new method for obtaining viable motoneurons in adult rat brain slices.

Each slice was bathed for 15 minutes in a concentration of nicotine similar to the amount that would reach the brain after smoking a single cigarette.

A T1 - weighted TFE - 3D sequence was used for structural MRI of the whole brain [repetition time (TR) = 7.6 ms, echo time (TE) = 3.5 ms, flip - angle = 8 °, 150 slices, slice thickness = 1 mm, gap: 0.1 mm, matrix: 224 × 224].

As shown previously in VTA - containing brain slices exposed to cocaine (Argilli et al., 2008), DA neurons showed significantly elevated potentiation of mEPSC amplitudes in PLE − / GFP + DA neurons in the presence of CM - MK801, which further demonstrates the lack of activity for CM - MK801 in PLE − neurons.

One limitation of the approach presented here is that the aqueous solubility of CM - MK801 (5 — 10 μM) make it less suitable for direct injection into the brain because of the requirement for elevated levels of co-solvents, such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)(> 0.1 %), which resulted in VTA - containing brain slices that were unsuitable for recordings.

My Italian - Canadian stepfather often ambushes me with slice - o - life zingers that rattle in my brain for years to come.

Yes... cholesterol is good for the body and Brain and all the typical thinking that Grains are good for you is total hog - wash!!!!!! I will never eat a slice of bread or a bowl of cereal again.

The screams, the cries, the shriek of slicing odd objects for effect - it all seeps into the dude's brain.

Doing a large motel we sliced up income projections for various activities, rooms, conference room leases, restaurant, bar, salon leases, etc to consolidated statements to use of cash, debt reduction and seasonal adjustments, so it can be brain damage.