They've looked for BMAA in
similar brain samples, and haven't seen it.
Not exact matches
They studied
brain samples from mice and rats that were raised with chronic exposure to nicotine and had developed nicotine dependence —
similar to a heavy smoker going through two packs a day.
Studying mice and tissue
samples from the arteries of patients, researchers atWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest this accumulation is driven, at least in part, by processes
similar to the plaque formation implicated in
brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Analyses of amplified bacterial 16 s rRNA sequences disclosed that Proteobacteria was the principal bacterial phylum in all human
brain samples with
similar bacterial rRNA quantities in HIV and ODC groups despite increased host neuroimmune responses in the HIV group.
Lastly, we have previously published very
similar analyses testing
brain cortical thickness patient - control differences in cortical thickness in a male adolescent
sample [76].