Sentences with phrase «postmortem brain samples»

Observations of reactive microglia in postmortem brain samples of PD patients had led to suggestions that microglia are involved in the neuropathological changes in DA neurons that are inherent to this disease.»

All postmortem brain samples come from animals that either died of natural causes or were euthanized for humane reasons due to incurable and / or painful disease.

Not exact matches

Examinations of NFL players» postmortem brains turned up chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 99 percent of samples in large dataset.

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

Using postmortem human brain samples, the researchers found that variations in the number of copies of the C4 gene that people had, and the length of their gene, could predict how active the gene was in the brain.

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.

They used state - of - the - art DNA sequencing technology to screen for retrotransposons in tissue samples taken postmortem from three individuals who were healthy when alive and had no neurological disease or signs of abnormality in their brain tissue.

Also, our sample of autistic cases had brain weights typical of brain weights in larger postmortem samples of autistic children.

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) brain samples were collected postmortem from five adult specimens (23 Y female, 31 Y female, 31 Y male, 27 Y male, 23 Y male).