Sentences with phrase «examine brain proteins»

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In an interview, the Glasgow - based neurologist described how he had examined sections of brain tissue in a retired rugby player and found abnormal proteins associated with head injuries and dementia.

To figure out how the cells find their way from the eye to their final destination in the brain, Osterhout and her colleagues examined mice that had been bred to make green fluorescent protein, or GFP.

However, when they closely examined the effects on the brain of conditioning rodents with a mild foot shock, the scientists found several messenger RNAs recruited to polyribosomes in the medial prefrontal cortex — a clear indication of new protein synthesis there.

Accumulation of insoluble U1 protein was seen in samples from patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor stage to Alzheimer's, but the U1 pathology was not seen in any other brain diseases that were examined.

When Gillian Bates at Guy's Hospital, London and Stephen Davies at University College in London and their colleagues examined the brains of transgenic mice endowed with a DNA encoding 150 of these glutamine repeats, they found that the protein started out, at birth, in the cytoplasm of the animals» brain cells and then gradually migrated to cell nuclei and clumped there.

Still, when the brain cells and spinal cord cells of these babies were examined at autopsy, there was clear evidence that nusinersen had tricked SMN2 into producing a great deal more of the full length, motor neuron - protecting protein: two to six times more copies of SMN's messenger RNA were found in spinal cord samples from nusinersen - treated babies than in autopsy samples from untreated infants.

The researchers examined the protein levels of SOX9 in malignant childhood brain tumors from more than 140 patients together with scientists in Germany.

We therefore examined the protein levels of Dilp2 in IPCs by staining larval brains with anti-Dilp2.

To answer this question, the researchers examined brain cells that did not produce either form of the apoE protein, and the neurons looked and functioned just like cells with apoE3.

Prior to the new study, the accumulation of these two proteins has been examined by German researchers in the brains of people who have already passed away.

At 3, 6, 9, or 12 hours of sleep deprivation, proteins were examined from the mouse brains.

One day, he examines the body of local Steelers legend Mike Webster (David Morse), who's recently committed suicide, and sees an unusual amount of protein in his brain.