Sentences with phrase «kills brain tissue»
The resulting lack of oxygen and glucose quickly kills brain tissue in the immediate area, and the affected area continues to expand until blood supply is restored.
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How did John Wilkes Booth kill Abraham Lincoln when it was clearly a piece of lead projected out of a small metal tube which went right into Lincoln's head destroying brain tissue that really killed him?
24 hours, 72 hours, 30 days, and 60 days later, the researchers killed the hamsters a few at a time and looked at their brain tissue under a microscope.
They then kill the animal and slice its brain tissue thin enough so that light can shine through it under a microscope, revealing the structure within each slice.
The study of human astrocytes has faced issues related to access (samples of living tissue must be obtained from brain cancer or epilepsy surgeries or fetal tissue) and purification (breaking apart astrocytes away from other cells often killed them and many experiments ended in failure).
VIRUS VICTORY Zika virus (green) infects and kills stem cells (red) in human glioblastoma tissue, without infecting healthy brain cells.
«In cancer, it's usually the metastases to the lung, liver or brain that kill the patient, but it's hard to get tissue safely from these areas,» said Rick Lanman, MD, Guardant Health's chief medical officer.
Like all prion diseases, CJD has a very long incubation period, but once it gets going it rages through the brain, destroying all tissue in its wake and typically killing people from their late 40s onwards.