Sentences with phrase «brain slicing takes»

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

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.

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He then took slices of each mouse's brain and measured whether it led to an increase in the amount of electricity passing between neurons in the accumbens and the prefrontal cortex.

Hu's team then took brain slices from the mice in order to measure the electrical currents produced from mPFC neurons.

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

To make such a detailed model, researchers took specks of brain tissue and cut them into slices thousands of times thinner than a human hair.

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.

«We can take a 1 - mm whole brain slice and zoom in on it,» Ellisman said, «and keep zooming up to the diffraction limit, to the intranuclei, to the neurons in the cerebellum.»