Sentences with phrase «examined brain samples»

Until now, those plaques could be identified only by examining brain samples postmortem.

Boyden explains that the technique he developed to examine brain samples is being applied to «bacteria, cancer, biopsies, virology questions.

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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.

The investigators examined 21 autopsy brain samples: 12 with HD and nine without.

The FDA authorized marketing the Brain Trauma Indicator after examining data from a clinical study of nearly 2,000 blood samples from patients with suspected concussions.

In examining autopsy samples from MS patients, the researchers detected an abundance of amyloids in brain lesions and damaged neurons, the hallmarks of the disease.

Immunologist Steven Schutzer of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey examined samples of cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, from patients with each syndrome.

In each of the four brain samples, 4096 spectra were examined in this way.

She and colleagues examined DNA from individual brain cells taken from three donated human brains and tested bulk samples from the hippocampus (an area important for learning and memory) and the frontal cortex (where most thinking and decision making is thought to happen).

A team of scientists from O.S.U. examined 68 samples of postmortem tissue from the brains of people without a history of mental illness in search of the profile of messenger RNA (mRNA) transcribed from a particular gene.

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.

Future work by the group will focus on testing the effectiveness of CAST training in a larger sample using neurophysiological measures to examine how the training affects brain systems.

We sampled the bees from the surface of the bee ball at 0, 30, and 60 min after formation of the bee ball and examined the Acks - expressing brain regions using in situ hybridization (n = 5, 7 and 7 for 0, 30 and 60 min, respectively).

As highlighted throughout, a potentially informative way of stratifying a sample would be to group individuals by pubertal stage to examine brain maturation as a function of sexual maturity in ASD.