Sentences with phrase «brain specimens for»

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«Researchers will spend the majority of their life examining a very small piece of an entire specimen, say the inner ear or the interior of the brain cavity, looking for morphological differences.

But since dolphin brains must be rushed to the lab within hours for scientific use, specimens are sparse.

One of the most prized specimens is a sample of the entorhinal cortex, regarded as the X on the brain's treasure map by Alzheimer's researchers because the disease is thought to originate there; the nonprofit brain bank charges up to $ 1,000 for half a gram.

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.

Wilcoxon rank - sum test was used to calculate the P value for ex vivo bioluminescence from brain and expression level of miR - 7 and KLF4 in human specimens.

While these techniques tested techniques for keeping the brain alive in the absence of a blood supply, authors of the study said their goal, in contrast to that of Chinese researchers, was not the long - term viability of the specimen.

They intend to examine more wide - ranging areas of the brain and to stain for more cell types within larger numbers of post-mortem brain specimens.

The NCBR serves as a repository for in vivo structural MRI scans of chimpanzee brains, in vivo and postmortem diffusion tensor images (DTI), as well as postmortem fixed and frozen brain specimens.

(We thank Marian Slaney for expert processing of the postmortem brain specimen.)

In 2012, our laboratory initiated a study of AAN structural connectivity in ex vivo human brain specimens and in a living human subject - a study made possible by high resolution MRI scanners and high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) sequences developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.

Like an urgent letter lying on your table, you carefully remember me, every nook and crevice etched in your brain as if I was all you were taught in school, like a scholar you aced every test, proud I am to be your specimen for dicection, study me, know me, I used to think I was just a simple...