Sentences with phrase «autopsied brains»

So a team led by autoimmunity researcher and rheumatologist J. Lee Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, took samples from autopsied brains of 59 women who died between the ages of 32 and 101.

The researchers analyzed genetic data from autopsied brain samples taken from 1,904 people with neurodegenerative disease.

Her team examined autopsied brain tissue from 28 people between the ages of 14 and 79 who'd died suddenly, but had previously been healthy.

Finally they looked at gene expression in autopsied brains of individuals with Rett.

The investigators examined 21 autopsy brain samples: 12 with HD and nine without.

A dye used for more than a century to stain autopsied brain tissue can prevent the devastating effects of Huntington's disease in mice, new research shows.

Rudolph Tanzi and Robert Moir took autopsied brain tissue from patients who had died of Alzheimer's disease and «homogenized» it, grinding up the tissue using a sterile, laboratory - grade mortar and pestle.

Using autopsied brain tissue, researchers found that healthy older adults had the same capacity to create new cells in the brain's hippocampus region as young adults did.

One of Kawas» most interesting findings is that when her team began autopsying the brains of those who were aging well and exhibiting no signs of dementia, about 40 percent had «full - fledged» Alzheimer's Disease.

In 1865, Pierre Paul Broca pinpointed the part of the brain responsible for language by autopsying brains of the language - impaired — the region is now called Broca's area.

Studies on autopsied brains can look at structure but not activity.

This anxious behavior mirrored that of CdLS patients, while autopsied brain tissue from individuals with CdLS showed symptoms of disease that matched those of the experimental mice suggesting that they were a good animal model.

But when Schmidt stained autopsied brain sections using both AMY 117 and an antibody to amyloid, she was astonished to find that the two antibody types gravitated to two different sets of plaques — one of which had never before been glimpsed, apparently because it resists the traditional staining techniques.

Extracting DNA from a museum collection of jellied autopsied brains dating back to the 1890s may give researchers a new take on the study mental disorders

In the study, researchers autopsied the brains of 135 Japanese people from a single town who died between 1998 and 2003.

Exogenous viruses including bacteriophage and human herpes viruses - 4, -5 and -6 were detected variably in autopsied brains from both clinical groups.

Then, they compared the patterns of gene expression in the resulting neurons with cells taken from autopsied brains.

Researchers studied hippocampi from the autopsied brains of 17 men and 11 women ranging in age from 14 to 79.

The paper by Collinge and his colleagues has sparked a worldwide hunt for similar amyloid pathology in autopsied brains, and a small study published this January revealed a handful of related cases.

He and his team of pathologists were examining the autopsied brains of four people who had once received injections of growth hormone derived from human cadavers.

Like other pathologists in countries where people had died of CJD associated with medical procedures, he rushed to check the centre's archives of autopsied brains to see if any of them contained the ominous amyloid deposits.

By measuring messenger RNA in autopsied brains, he found that many genes, around 10 percent of those studied, are expressed at significantly different levels in the two species.

Additionally, the autopsied brains of patients have beta - amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

Tissue samples from 286 autopsied brains were taken to measure brain metal concentrations.