Sentences with phrase «from brain autopsies»

The other week the Canadian Sports Concussion Project announced the results from brain autopsies of four CFL football players.

Not exact matches

One of the first clues came from autopsies of people with fragile - X; their brains had immature synapses, suggesting a missing protein.

Autopsies have revealed that some otters have died from brain infections caused by the parasite.

Researchers studied hippocampi from the autopsied brains of 17 men and 11 women ranging in age from 14 to 79.

This anxious behavior mirrored that of CdLS patients, while autopsied brain tissue from individuals with CdLS showed symptoms of disease that matched those of the experimental mice suggesting that they were a good animal model.

So a team led by autoimmunity researcher and rheumatologist J. Lee Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, took samples from autopsied brains of 59 women who died between the ages of 32 and 101.

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.

Then, they compared the patterns of gene expression in the resulting neurons with cells taken from autopsied brains.

This news comes from McGill University and the Suicide Brain Bank, a Quebec - based organization that carried out autopsies on suicide victims who had been abused as kids.

In an ordinary autopsy, just a few chunks would be cut from the brain, but Annese was building a Brain Observatory at U.C. San Diego that would allow the whole organ to be processed and then digitally imbrain, but Annese was building a Brain Observatory at U.C. San Diego that would allow the whole organ to be processed and then digitally imBrain Observatory at U.C. San Diego that would allow the whole organ to be processed and then digitally imaged.

According to forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu of the University of Pittsburgh, an autopsy after his death revealed that Waters» brain had suffered so much damage from football injuries that it resembled that of an 85 - year - old man with early stage Alzheimer's disease.

Autopsies on humans reveal a similar trend: brains from older people have a higher content of oxidised proteins than those from younger people.

The only way to clearly distinguish Alzheimer's from other forms of mental impairment is an autopsy, which can reveal telltale brain lesions.

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.

This brain slice from a human autopsy has taken on vivid color in the hands of a neuroscientist: green from infection by a lentivirus, red for neurons, blue for the nuclei of brain cells.

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.

Extracting DNA from a museum collection of jellied autopsied brains dating back to the 1890s may give researchers a new take on the study mental disorders

Many people with Alzheimer's die of sepsis, which can be caused by infections, and he believes brain tissue samples could have been contaminated during autopsies with microbes from elsewhere in the body.

The researchers analyzed genetic data from autopsied brain samples taken from 1,904 people with neurodegenerative disease.

Researchers from UCL and Swansea have been investigating the results of autopsies from a small number of retired professional footballers with dementia in an effort to determine whether their brains showed distinct damage compared to other typical dementia patients.

Trojanowski, as a neuropathologist, had access to brains from patients who consented to autopsy.

Sure enough, when the researchers examined the brains of PD patients, they found more cells exhibiting signs of senescence than in people without the disease — and especially astrocytes, as they had expected.7 This was true even after matching patients for age, meaning that PD subjects had even more senescent astrocytes in their SNcs than is typical for people their age (ranging in this case from 50 — 92 years at autopsy)-- and remember, aging already drives an increase in the burden of these cells as compared with young people, even in those who have yet to develop Parkinson's disease.7

Her team examined autopsied brain tissue from 28 people between the ages of 14 and 79 who'd died suddenly, but had previously been healthy.

Tissue samples from 286 autopsied brains were taken to measure brain metal concentrations.

In the study, researchers autopsied the brains of 135 Japanese people from a single town who died between 1998 and 2003.

The folds of leathery skin are lifted and propped open by sculptures, casts and found objects to reveal collages of a multitude of images from a broad range of sources: André Masson's Acéphale illustration depicts a headless monster, functioning as a parodic diagram of the ideas of the Surrealist philosopher Georges Bataille; Krang, the villain from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is an anthropomorphic brain housed in the torso of a human - shaped exo - suit; the cryogenically - frozen body of John Spartan from the film, Demolition Man; and a snapshot of the artist's mother, apparently perturbed by a «virtual autopsy display» of a mummy in the British Museum.