Kristian Doyle, assistant professor of immunobiology and neurology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, uses biomarkers to study how the immune system deals with
dead brain tissue after a stroke.
Not exact matches
Should a doctor at any point take a cross section of my
brain, she will find patches of scarring and
dead tissue, souvenirs of the time I pursued the mystery of magnetism across the 11 - dimensional badlands of string theory.
From that experience, Deisseroth determined that he would spend his life solving a core puzzle of psychiatric disease: A
brain could appear undamaged, with no
dead tissue or anatomical deformities, yet something could be so wrong it destroyed patients» lives.
And again, just examining a
dead brain, it's not just examining
dead tissue.
That's because most studies on single human
brain cells use
dead rather than living
tissue, and many others rely on cells from common laboratory animals, especially mice.
Chen Gu and his team obtained slices of
brain tissue from
dead mice.
If he can determine how to speed up engulfment of
dead tumor cells from
brain tissue, it is his hope to reduce the harmful inflammation that causes death of surrounding neurons.
The only way to test for rabies is by examination of the
brain tissue of a
dead animal.