«For the first time, we were able to directly monitor oxygen levels in human tumors growing in
a mouse brain using EPR oximetry with implantable resonators,» explained Khan.
At 1 year of age, we counted the amount of SNpc dopaminergic neurons in
the mouse brains using both colorimetric and fluorescent staining followed by unbiased stereology.
Not exact matches
The author discuses the dangers of pertussis and specifically that the same substance being
used to cause
brain inflammation in
mice utilized for research.
One study found
brain hemorrhages in
mouse fetuses exposed to pulsed ultrasound at doses similar to those
used on human babies.
The researchers then
used genetic techniques to find out what would happen when NAD manufacturing is turned off in the adult neural stem cells of the
mouse brain.
Using exquisitely precise methods to measure how memories are embedded in
brain cells in
mice, scientists have shown how fear - based memories prompted by the sound associated with an electric shock can be activated and erased.
The researchers are planning to
use the novel
mouse model to study how ErbB4 may coordinate
brain activities, in an effort to learn more about mechanisms behind attention deficit disorders.
The experiment also showed that
mouse brains are flexible enough to receive and make
use of the additional wavelength information.
Alcino Silva, distinguished professor of psychology at UCLA, has been
using genetic markers and a highly miniaturized microscope to zero in on sets of
brain cells in
mice with such interconnected or «linked» memories.
Research published in the October 21 issue of Science Translational Medicine
uses a virus to deliver an extra dose of the gene p11 to the adult
mouse brain.
Using a flexible
mouse model, her team set out to determine whether anything could be done to restore memory «after a significant number of neurons are lost in the
brain.»
The behavioral tests
used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different
brain mechanisms in
mice than in humans, he says.
The study
used a novel
mouse model to study
brain functions.
Burd and her colleagues
used a
mouse model to study what happens to the
brains of those offspring as they age into adulthood to see if the effects persisted.
Duke scientists have shown that it's possible to pick out key changes in the genetic code between chimpanzees and humans and then visualize their respective contributions to early
brain development by
using mouse embryos.
Dr. Erez and her team
used mouse models to study and follow the spontaneous metastasis of melanoma in the
brain.
Green and co-workers worked out a gentler approach
using druglike molecules to kill microglia in the
brains of
mice with simulated Alzheimer's disease.
Using «freshman physics,» neuroscientists have deployed electric fields to stimulate neurons buried deep in the
brains of
mice — a method that could one day lead to noninvasive therapies for people with Parkinson's disease and other
brain disorders.
Again,
using mouse models of glioblastoma — this time created from
brain tumor cells that were resistant to the herpes virus — the therapy led to increased animal survival.
Other researchers have
used optogenetics to transmit artificial skin sensations into the
brains of
mice, but Ko plans to investigate other technologies to find a technique that's best suited for his lab's e-skin.
Several research groups have tried to clarify this issue
using various methods to clear microglia from the
brains of Alzheimer's
mice to see how this would affect amyloid buildup.
In contrast, the new method
used on
mice causes certain nerve cells to fire at a specific rhythm, generating
brain waves that researchers believe may clear A-beta.
While
mouse models have traditionally been
used in studying the genetic disorder, Deng said the animal model is inadequate because the human
brain is more complicated, and much of that complexity arises from astroglia cells, the star - shaped cells that play an important role in the physical structure of the
brain as well as in the transmission of nerve impulses.
Using a
mouse model, the team also demonstrated that two processes during neurodevelopment are regulated by the gene: proliferation — the replication of neuronal stem cells that have the potential to become multiple different kinds of cells, including neurons — and migration — the movement of neurons to specific locations in the
brain during development.
The researchers
used a technique called laser scanning photostimulation to map the connections between individual subplate neuron cells in the
brains of the
mouse pups.
Using fluorescent antibodies designed specifically to light up the receptor in
mice, the investigators observed it on vagus nerves, which serve as a main biochemical connection between airway cells and the
brain.
A dye
used for more than a century to stain autopsied
brain tissue can prevent the devastating effects of Huntington's disease in
mice, new research shows.
Scientists made select nerve cells in
mice's
brains sensitive to light, and then
used lasers to activate specific groups of those cells.
Using the supercomputers at Almaden and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the group simulated networks that crudely approximated the
brains of
mice, rats, cats and humans.
The device
uses brain signals generated in the motor cortex to control a computer
mouse directly, allowing him to communicate.
This and subsequent similar experiments
used guinea pig
brains because they're larger and easier to work with than
mouse brains.
«This study
used humanized
mice with tissue extracts directly inoculated into the
brain, so the system was highly primed for infection.
They injected the particles directly into
mice with an experimental human
brain cancer, and into the
brains of healthy
mice for
use as comparison.
Since the current work was done in
mice, O'Leary and Zembrzycki want to confirm the link in humans by
using brain scans to measure the natural variation in the neocortical areas and search for potential links to disease.
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using everything from computer simulations to
brain scans to genetically engineered
mice are helping unlock the nature of mental time.
To develop a comprehensive view of astrocyte gene expression, the duo
used the technique in four very different areas of the
mouse brain: two regions of the cortex and the hypothalamus and cerebellum.
They
used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two
mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old
mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a
brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.
Scientists at the Allen Institute for
Brain Science in Seattle are using microscopy to directly observe gene activity, one at a time, in razor - thin slices of mouse brain ti
Brain Science in Seattle are
using microscopy to directly observe gene activity, one at a time, in razor - thin slices of
mouse brain ti
brain tissue.
He targeted ChR2 to the sleep cells and then,
using optical fiber, delivered light directly to the
mice's
brains.
To overcome these problems, Min and his team developed a new modality to visualize glucose uptake activity inside single cells based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging, and demonstrated its
use in live cancer cells, tumor xenograft tissues, primary neurons and
mouse brain tissues.
This new combination of electronics and drugs to intervene in an individual
brain circuit might be
used to create
mouse models of other mood disorders for other studies, Dzirasa said.
They did this by
using a virus to load into the
mice's
brains extra amounts of another protein, called GADD34, which snips off the crucial phosphate from the eIF2alpha - P protein.
Using electroencephalography (EEG)-- in which electrodes placed in the
brain measure neural activity — the team saw a sharp wave of action in the
mouse brains from the hippocampus in the midbrain to the neocortex (the outermost
brain layer).
The researchers also found that activation of ESP1 - responding neurons in the region of the
brain called the hypothalamus enhanced sexual behavior in female
mice, even in the absence of actual ESP1, by
using various tools to chemically or optically control neural activities, combined with a process called the TRAP method, which allows them to selectively manipulate neurons responding to a particular stimulus.
We identified c - Jun amino - terminal kinase 3 (JNK3) as a binding partner of β - arrestin 2
using a yeast two - hybrid screen and by coimmunoprecipitation from
mouse brain extracts or cotransfected COS - 7 cells.
While previous investigations into the protein's effects have
used either
mice in which gene expression was knocked out or transgenic animals that expressed human gene variants throughout their lifetimes, the MGH - MIND - led study
used a different approach to investigate the effects of introducing the variant forms of the protein into
brains in which plaque formation had already begun.
Over this span, the
mice also showed a 2 - to 6-fold increase in global
brain neuroinflammation
using [18F] DPA - 714 PET imaging.
«We have successfully
used cinnamon to reverse biochemical, cellular and anatomical changes that occur in the
brains of
mice with poor learning,» Pahan said.
For the first time, scientists have
used Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging to study
brain inflammation following Zika virus infection in
mice, according to a study recently published online in the journal Molecular Imaging and Biology.
In the AlphaMed Press journal Stem Cells, Shah's team shows how the toxin - secreting stem cells can be
used to eradicate cancer cells remaining in
mouse brains after their main tumor has been removed.