Sentences with phrase «using brain slices»

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Using a microscope with a laser attached, they precisely cut the brains into slices 20 micrometres thick and stained them to identify the different brain structures.

My project was in neuroscience, working on a model of epilepsy using electrophysiological recordings from brain slices.

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A CT scan uses X-rays to take pictures of the brain in slices.

Using them as a kind of grid reference, he slices the brain in two with what resembles a large bread knife.

By using a dye that highlights damaged brain cells, they were able to monitor injury development in the slices up to three days after blast exposure.

Studies of individual neurons in dishes of cultured neurons and in brain slices by co-first author Robert E. Stanley, a graduate student in the lab, revealed that neurons in the mutant mice had decreased numbers of dendritic spines, an important part of the synapses that neurons use to communicate with one another.

In a brain slice, Olivia Masseck measures the activity of nerve cells in which she switches on their receptors using light stimulation.

Using electron microscopy to look at thousands of ultrathin brain slices taken from awake and sleeping mice, they found that after sleep, the size of most synapses — specifically, the surface area where two neurons touch each other — shrank by about 18 percent.

These are scans that use x-rays to produce «virtual slices» of the brain.

The mouse atlas was produced using a method called «in situ hybridisation», in which thin slices of brain tissue are bathed in a solution containing molecular probes that bind to messenger RNA sequences produced by each gene.

Another Kavli researcher, Steven Siegelbaum, uses a technology called two - photon microscopy to image pre-synaptic terminals (the nerve cell tips that send charges from one cell to another) within slices of living brain tissue.

In the Finkbeiner laboratory, Linsley uses time - lapse imaging of neurons in culture, within organotypic mouse brain slices, and within live zebrafish to uncover the mechanisms in neurodegeneration that lead to neuronal death.

In addition to cultured cells, Ts1 - coupled nanoparticles were tested on complex brain tissue using thin slices of mouse hippocampus.

CT scans use computers and rotating X-ray machines to create images of slices, or cross-sections, of the brain.

She suggests coloring different parts of brain slices (from dead people) using specific dyes and viewing them under a microscope.

A study using mice found these high - energy particles slice through the brain.

To address these different topics we are developing relevant animal models that will be used in combination with primary neuronal cultures, rodent brain slices, and brain tissues.

Traditional observational techniques require using microscopes to view ultra-thin slices of tissue — messy business when trying to reconstruct three - dimensional structures in something as thick as a human brain.

Li Gan, PhD, hopes to use the microscope to image firing cells in live brain slices, while Leor Weinberger, PhD, is interested in studying the processes by which a virus enters a cell in real time.

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].

Structural MRI and whole brain echo planar fMRI based on the BOLD effect was performed using a gradient echo pulse sequence: TR / TE 2000/30 ms, flip angle 90o, FOV 288 mm, 64 × 64 matrix, slice thickness 4.5 mm, 26 transverse slices, bandwidth 2.5 kHz.

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