Sentences with phrase «brain tissue samples»

A study has generated molecular profiles for several psychiatric disorders by examining RNA in brain tissue samples from 700 subjects.

These findings were achieved using brain tissue samples from two patients with AD and a control.

Cox then set about getting brain tissue samples collected during autopsies of six Chamorros who had died of lytico - bodig.

The scientists compared that tissue with brain tissue samples from three young amateur American football players and a professional wrestler, all of whom had a history of repetitive concussive injury, and with four samples from comparably aged control subjects with no history of blast exposure, concussive injury or neurological disease.

After analyzing brain tissue samples, the researchers identified an area of the gene where a single change reduced BDNF levels in the hypothalamus, a key area that controls eating and body weight.

Interestingly, many of the genes identified in this study have been shown to have lower gene activity at the molecular level in autistic post mortem brain tissue samples.

Many people with Alzheimer's die of sepsis, which can be caused by infections, and he believes brain tissue samples could have been contaminated during autopsies with microbes from elsewhere in the body.

The research team found that in brain tissue samples from people with an obesity - linked mutation in FTO, IRX3 was highly expressed, although FTO was not.

A new evaluation of brain tissue samples from various primates identified key elements that make the human brain unique, including cortical circuits underlying production of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

It's difficult to gather brain tissue samples from humans, so studying diseases like tuberous sclerosis is maddening, he said.

Brain tissue samples from these patients were then compared to donors who had never received a gadolinium contrast agent.