Walter undergoes a CT scan, and the team learn Walter had three pieces of his brain tissue removed from his Hippocampus which is the primary repository for long term memory.
They also looked at samples of human brain tissue removed during neurosurgical procedures, and at tissue they removed from monkeys' brains, so that they could be compared with those of the mice.
A mid-sagittal section of the brain was made, with tissue removed from both rostral and caudal sections of the section, at ∼45° alignment to the dorsoventral axis.
Manuel underwent abdominal surgery yesterday to have scar tissue removed from his colon.
Coach Mike Sherman said Levens had scar tissue removed from his knee.
I had partial tissue removed from my abdomen as a result of the chest injury".
Functional volumes were skull stripped (i.e. suprathreshold voxels outside of brain tissue were removed from data analysis) using BET in FSL.
Blood, tumour and brain tissue were removed from three untreated control animals and processed in the same way.
A subgroup of animals were killed at the end of scan and the brain tissue was removed from skull and rinsed in cold phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde in PBS solution and kept for overnight.
Non-brain tissue was removed from the T1-weighted anatomical images using the Brain Extraction Tool (BET) [32].
