Sentences with phrase «injecting tracer»

His research relied on injecting tracer chemicals into the animals and later euthanizing them.

Injecting tracers, however, may be sensitive ethical territory.

Researchers injected a tracer called gadolinium intravenously into the subjects and then scanned their brains to see how much got past the blood - brain barrier — which was noticeably leakier in those who had Alzheimer's.

The result is a 60 - page Watershed Plan [5](PDF) that dictates that Genesis will only use «green» hydraulic fracturing fluids, will reveal the chemical makeup of those fluids and will inject a tracer along with those fluids so any alleged contamination in the area can be quickly linked to its source.

Not exact matches

Scientists imaged more than 1,700 mouse brains (injected with a tracer virus) at resolutions less than a micrometer, or 50 times smaller than a human hair.

Colleagues from the USA1 carried out a trial in which 83 patients with early stage HNSCC who were all scheduled to undergo neck dissection were injected with the novel tracer, tilmanocept.

So this week the team will inject 150 tonnes of CO2 into the aquifer, and compare its movements with the tracers.

At the end of June, two tracer gases — krypton and xenon — were injected into the saline aquifer, says Josie McInerney, the community liaison officer for CO2CRC.

In this new work, Carrigan's team injected gas tracers into an old cavity in Nevada created by an underground nuclear explosion and studied how the gases were transported and released from the cavity.

They developed a radioactive tracer that, when injected into the body, binds with a key protein that is present in all synapses across the brain.

In the sentinel node biopsy procedure, a radioactive tracer and a blue - colored dye are injected at or near the melanoma site on the skin and tracked to the first lymph node (s).

Between surprise visits from bears, the scientists lassoed murres and injected them with tracer molecules to track their energy usage.

A patient is injected with a radioactive tracer, and the cells that absorb it most readily glow bright.

To identify ganglion cells innervating palatal or fungiform taste buds, the retrograde tracer FluoroGold (Fluorochrome) was injected into the anterior tongue and soft palate using a protocol modified from King and Bradley (2000).

Yes: To have a bone scan, a radioactive tracer is injected into the blood system.

Hence, the C14 Bomb Spike tracer experiment, that injected excess C14 in to the atmosphere and is measuring the removal time, does give (by your argument above, minus the wrong conclusion) the recovery time of the atmosphere to injected CO2.