Cytology is the microscopic examination of
cell samples obtained by aspiration techniques.
Cytology is the microscopic examination of
cell samples obtained by needle aspiration.
3/24/2008 Non-Invasive Imaging Provides Window Into Genetic Properties of Brain Tumors Doctors diagnose and prescribe treatment for brain tumors by studying, under a microscope, tumor tissue and
cell samples obtained through invasive biopsy or surgery.
For the study, conducted as part of the doctoral thesis of Mahesh Raundhal, a graduate student in the laboratory of Prabir Ray, Ph.D., Pitt professor of medicine and co-senior author, the research team examined lung
cell samples obtained from patients also participating in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP), a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe asthma.
Not exact matches
Rather than
obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small
sample of animal
cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.
Rather than
obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small
sample of animal
cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.
Total urinary As was measured by collision
cell ICP - MS using germanium as an internal standard.30 Arsenic species were
obtained by a high - performance liquid chromatography GP50 pump (Dionex Corp) and a PRP100X column (Hamilton Co) connected to a collision
cell ICP - MS.29, 31 - 33 Approximately 10 % of
samples were run in duplicate for both analyses.
The approach is particularly helpful for producing
cells that can not be
obtained from patient
samples, such as brain
cells.
Current genome sequencing techniques involve the chemical disintegration of
samples of red blood
cells from infected patients to
obtain parasite DNA, which are then sequenced.
From tissue and
cell samples from five glioblastoma patients, the scientists
obtained 33 individual cancer
cells capable of reproduction, which grew into very different tumors in the lab.
But with this technique, we can just take a small
sample of non-muscle tissue, like skin or blood, revert the
obtained cells to a pluripotent state, and eventually grow an endless amount of functioning muscle fibers to test.»
The information on how hydrogen diffuses in metals is usually
obtained from electrochemical measurements of the rate of hydrogen permeation through a
sample being usually a membrane separating two independent electrolytic
cells.
One uses primary hepatocytes
obtained from livers donated for transplant; the second uses stem
cells derived from human skin
samples and guided into hepatocyte - like
cells, Bhatia says.
«Now we can take easy to
obtain blood
samples, and make the main
cell types of neurological systems — the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system — in a dish that is specialized for each patient,» said Bhatia.
Information
obtained via single -
cell sequencing from
cells sampled from each core indicate the likely location of a cancerous tumor (dotted lines encompassing cores 2, 3 and 6).
The study of human astrocytes has faced issues related to access (
samples of living tissue must be
obtained from brain cancer or epilepsy surgeries or fetal tissue) and purification (breaking apart astrocytes away from other
cells often killed them and many experiments ended in failure).
The rate of JAK2 amplification in these tissues was similar to
samples obtained after chemotherapy, suggesting that JAK2 plays a supporting role in drug resistance and cancer stem
cell - like features.
But the scientists can't be certain these
cells are perfect matches for native human motor neurons since it's difficult to
obtain samples of cultured motor neurons from adult individuals.
The first step was determining how to
obtain healthy
samples of this specific type of
cell.
Today, the patient must first visit healthcare unit where a trained nurse
obtains a venous blood
sample, which is sent to a lab for separation of plasma and blood
cells.
While evidence
obtained in our and other laboratories strongly suggests that H. pylori triggers a transcriptional response, epigenetic alterations and DNA damage in infected
cells, most of the data supporting these findings rest on fragmentary analyses of clinical
samples and
cells infected in vitro.
Malaria and sickle
cell samples were
obtained from patients confirmed to have each disease.
We compared the
cell - fractions of pre - and post-mortem
samples globally using the Anderson — Darling test53 and by
cell - type
obtaining a p - value using the two - sided Wilcoxon Rank - Sum test54, adjusted to multiple - testing by Benjamini — Hochberg method44.
These
cells circulate throughout the body and can be readily
obtained from a blood
sample.
For each
sample, single HSCs were isolated and grown into colonies of homogenous
cells to
obtain enough DNA for exome sequencing.
This system is used to
obtain the percentage of
cells in each phase (G0 / G1, S and G2 / M) of the
cell cycle for each
sample.
Oocytes, cumulus
cells and frozen embryos were collected from Stanford Fertility and Reproductive Medicine Center after approval by the Stanford Institutional Review Board (IRB); all
samples were
obtained with written informed consent from all participants involved in the study.
This means that, where appropriate, consent and ethical approval must be
obtained from research participants before using their
samples, and ethical approval from the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) must be
obtained for the storage and use of material that contains human
cells (defined in the Act as «relevant material»), at the Sanger Institute.
They went on to show that Sox10, a factor needed for the formation of skin pigment
cells from neural crest stem
cells during development, was present at high levels in naevi and melanoma
samples obtained from both the mouse model and human patients.
The gelatinolytic assays were carried out in two different ways to
obtain complementary information: firstly,
cells were treated or not with the test compound and
samples from these were submitted to gelatinase zymography to detect the effects of the kahweol treatment on the expression of gelatinase activities; secondly, in some experiments,
samples from control, untreated HT - 1080 fibrosarcoma
cells were submitted to zymography and, after electrophoresis, different concentrations of kahweol were added to the substrate buffer to determine the potential direct effect of kahweol on gelatinase activity.
Participants will fill out a questionnaire about tobacco and alcohol use as well as sexual behavior, and
cell samples for HPV testing will be
obtained from the throat with a «swish and spit» technique.
PNB lifetime - probability of generation diagrams
obtained for the
cell samples.
For sperm count measurements, a
sample of sperm was diluted 1/10 in Milli - Q water, and 10 μl were placed on a Bürker chamber to
obtain sperm
cell concentration (million spermatozoa / ml).
The Barcode database provides gene expression information about thousands of mouse and human
samples from different normal and cancerous
cells / tissues
obtained pre - or postnatally.
Furthermore, multiplexing capabilities are highly desirable to
obtain comprehensive, single -
cell - level co-expression information and to maximize the use of limited biopsied
sample material.
Platelet - rich plasma is
obtained via a process called centrifugation that removes red and white blood
cells from a blood
sample while leaving behind a high concentration of platelets in the plasma.
The researchers
obtained bone marrow
samples from patients prior to chemotherapy, and from those
samples drew both leukemia
cells and immune system
cells.
In order to identify why the gland is enlarged (which hormone is likely to be implicated, whether there is infection or whether a malignant tumor is present), it is necessary to
obtain a
sample of the tumor
cells.
Depending on which lung lobe is selected, the doctor will then «wash» the lungs with sterile saline and then suction the wash fluid back to
obtain cells for cytology and a
sample for culture.
Manipulation of mast
cell tumors, for example, when
obtaining samples, can cause the release of chemicals (such as histamine) stored in the
cells.
Samples of tissues can thus, be
obtained by performing a bronchial wash which will typically be filled with large amounts of white blood
cells as well as bacteria and other microorganisms.
Cytology (microscopic evaluation of
cells) on
samples obtained by «scraping» the cornea and / or lining of the eye (coniunctiva).
Arrested and temporarily handcuffed to a steel pipe in a jail
cell, police ordered Saeed to swab his penis so they could
obtain a
sample of the complainant's DNA.