Sentences with phrase «brain slices by»

These findings were confirmed by two - photon imaging of neurons in the brains of living mice by the lab of collaborator Yi Zuo, PhD, a neuroscientist at UC Santa Cruz, as well as electrophysiological recordings from neurons in brain slices by the lab of collaborator Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry at UCSF.

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.

Not exact matches

A Toronto - based company hopes to capture a slice of the $ 1 - billion brain fitness market by helping baby boomers answer that question.

We then did a drive - by of Pizza Brain (a slice shop / pizza memorabilia museum that Tony helped open a few years ago; he's immortalized in a backyard mural)[Amiel: What, you're not going to mention the Last Supper — style oil painting of my friends and me that's hanging at 12 Steps Down?]

Indeed, by examining brain tissue and slices from the cocaine - addicted rats at various stages of withdrawal and craving, Wolf and her colleagues discovered that the incubation period and the subsequent spike in craving appeared to correlate with the appearance of atypical AMPA receptors on the surface of neurons in the NAc, which could help explain cocaine craving.

The team decided to verify that finding by treating tissue slices from developing ferret brains with a chemical that blocks BDNF's activity.

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).

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.

The slices of brain will be turned into digital images by an automated electron microscope.

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.

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.

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.

It was created by embedding a 65 - year - old woman's brain in wax, before slicing it into more than 7400 sections and imaging it (Science, doi.org/m3b).

Where else at CES could you see a two - by - two grid of higher - than - HD - quality monitors display a rotating 3 - D image of a skyscraper, folded protein or brain slice?

In the lab, researchers chart each neuron by tracing its thousands of projections through stacks of hundreds of overlapping brain - slice images.

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.

In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team led by Carlo Condello presented their results from a study of the sliced brain fragments of deceased Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

By intracellular and whole cell recording in rat brain slices, it was found that bath - applied serotonin (5 - HT) produces an increase in the frequency and amplitude of spontaneous excitatory

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.

«Schumer redeems I Feel Pretty by completely and fearlessly buying into the premise, and delivering a few good lines that slice into the shallow idiocy of valuing beauty over brains and celebrities over common folk» — Peter Howell, The Toronto Star

By then, Alzheimer had moved from Frankfurt to the Royal Psychiatric Clinic in Munich, so he had Auguste's brain sent there, where he «sampled thin slices of this brain tissue, [and] stained them with silver salts.»

The story is simple: after being overrun by brain - crazed zombies, a small town is rapidly locked down tight by the military and now you are forced to slice, dice and shoot your way through the hordes of zombies that stand in your way.