Sentences with phrase «tissue slices for»

Marciniak A, Cohrs CM, Tsata V, Chouinard JA, Selck C, Stertmann J, Reichelt S, Rose T, Ehehalt F, Weitz J, Solimena M, Slak Rupnik M, Speier S Using pancreas tissue slices for in situ studies of islet of Langerhans and acinar cell biology.

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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 tissue.

In this study, the researchers from Imperial's Department of Surgery and Cancer and the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, applied xenon to slices of mouse brain tissue after exposing them to blast shockwaves that emulated those produced by improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The tissue is then taken to a processing center, where the materials are given a thorough cleaning and techs slice off excess pieces of muscle or bone before they cryopreserve them, which keeps the remains usable in living patients for up to five years.

His work involves high - resolution imaging of chick embryonic tissue slices to study the cell - biological mechanisms driving neurogenesis in the spinal cord, for which Dr. Das played an instrumental role in pioneering new imaging technology.

SUSHI also visualizes synaptic clefts for the first time in slices of live tissue and reveals glia - neuron interactions and cell migration.

Gobbling a slice of sweet pumpkin pie, for instance, causes beta cells in the pancreas to secrete insulin, a hormone that allows the uptake of glucose and most amino acids into the tissues.

Here at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, donated specimens are sliced up, preserved, stored, and eventually parceled out to neuroscientists worldwide who study them for clues to disease, cognition, and the mysterious cellular underpinnings of psychology.

In the current study, lead authors David V. Hansen, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow, and Jan H. Lui, a graduate student in the Kriegstein lab, examined the OSVZ, using new labeling and tracking techniques to follow individual cells and their progeny over time in cultured tissue slices from fetal cortex tissue that had been donated for research.

This enabled researchers to generate serial images that went deeper into the tissue as each top slice was removed — to follow fine neural processes for hundreds of micrometers.

He uses still shots of street life as the visual connective tissue between capturing meetings held by various minority groups: Columbians celebrating a World Cup victory and then taking their party to the pavement; a mature LGBT community circle discussing the venue for future meetings; a Halal butcher blessing chickens prior to slicing their throats and having their still - twiching bodies dragged through various grubby processing machines; a group of Hispanic activists gathering stories of small business being forced out of their premises due to unfair rent hikes; and even a group of Christian urban beautifiers who are seen descending into intense prayer when one of their number explains that her father is dying.