Sentences with phrase «using brain tissue samples»
These findings were achieved using brain tissue samples from two patients with AD and a control.
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Researchers most commonly study the effect of antidepressants using a technique known as microdialysis, in which they insert a probe into the brain to take tiny chemical samples from the tissue.
Boyden and colleagues first described the underlying technique, known as expansion microscopy (ExM), last year, when they used it to image proteins inside large samples of brain tissue.
Once testing was complete, brain images, tissue and blood samples were used to analyze changes to brain structure and cytokine activity (proteins released by the immune system to help fight off infections or diseases).
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.
Usually, because of the inaccessibility of brain tissue in living humans, epigenetic studies are carried out using blood samples.