Sentences with phrase «cadaver brains»

Inside are hundreds of cadaver brains (donated to science by the deceased), numbered 1 through 653.

Nestler's team looked at cadaver brains from people who had been diagnosed with depression in life.

Mazziotta and Toga's study also includes cadaver brains, cut up into more than 2,500 microscopically thin slices and mounted on glass slides, then stained and digitally photographed.

Not exact matches

Dr David Jones, Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's College, London, has pointed out that he does not accept that brain death can be assumed for any cadaver with a beating - heart, and challenges the ethical acceptability of the use of any such cadaver for donor purposes [13].

The main problem is that it is extremely difficult to measure electrical activity deep inside the brain of a living person, and differences between the brains of living people and those of the animals and cadavers that previous studies have used are significant.

Despite the Harvard Ad Hoc Committee's claims that its criteria for brain death and the cardiopulmonary criteria describe the same phenomenon, beating - heart cadavers (BHCs) are decidedly different from regular corpses.

Anesthesiologists have been at the forefront of questioning the finality of brain death and whether beating - heart cadavers truly are unfeeling, unaware corpses.

Time is of the essence, because the beating - heart cadaver — a brand new kind of creature, known only since the advent of brain death — could easily have a heart attack and die again before his organs are removed.

Rookie med students feel the same disquiet in anatomy class when they first hold a cadaver's brain in their hands.

Their samples came from the liver, spleen, brain and heart of 11 cadavers, between 20 and 240 hours after death.

Now, a study that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity has found that simulator - trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.

• Fred Gage and his colleagues at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, harvested brain cells from human cadavers and used them to form neural progenitor cells, precursors to adult human brain cells.

Meaney's team examined 36 human brains taken from cadavers.

There is an art to removing the brain from a human cadaver.

BUILDUP Amyloid - beta (brown) accumulated in the front of the brain in a person who received injections of cadaver - derived growth hormone as a child, suggesting that the injections were contaminated with A-beta, researchers reported this year.

BUILDUP Amyloid - beta (brown) accumulated in the front of the brain in a person who received injections of cadaver - derived growth hormone as a child, suggesting that the injections were contaminated with A-beta.

A further 228 cases of CJD were caused by transplantation of prion - contaminated dura mater — the membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord — prepared from cadavers around the world.

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.

In fact, in both rats and human cadavers, Buzsáki's team found about 75 percent of currents applied to the scalp never reach the brain, but instead are taken up by the skull, scalp and other external tissues.

By implanting recording electrodes inside the cadavers» brains and applying TES externally, the researchers found that they needed to zap the scalp with about 4 to 6 milliamperes of current — well above typical current levels.

That said, between 1958 and 1985, thousands of growth - hormone - deficient children were treated with injections of HGH taken from the brains of cadavers shipped out of Africa.