Sentence examples for dead neurons from inspiring English sources

Neuronal injury was measured in all experiments by examination of cultures with phase-contrast microscopy at 20×, 18 20 h after the insult while neuronal damage was quantitatively assessed by counting dead neurons stained with trypan blue and by measuring lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) released in the medium.

Then, the solution was replaced with warm conditioned medium containing 1  μM MK801, which prevented additional neuronal death due to excessive glutamate release from dead neurons.

In addition to surrounding neurons and holding them in place, glial cells have other important functions: supplying nutrients and oxygen to neurons, insulating neurons from one another, and killing pathogens and removing dead neurons.

They also actively migrate towards parts of the brain that have been damaged by stroke or disease, eating up dead neurons and clearing away any cellular debris left behind.

Scanning slices of old brain, "stained and prepped for the microscope", his eye is unsparing: "the aged folds" like "the withered meat of a walnut", the blood vessels like "hardened tendrils", the "small plaques of toxic amyloid protein surrounded by a debris field of dead neurons".

The number of dead neurons increased significantly following exposure to HH for 3 or 7 days.

Dead neuron is characterized by eosinophilic change including nerve cell became a deep and red cell with nuclear pyknosis and nucleoli disappear under light microscope.

When spinal neurons die, Wallerian degeneration takes place, leading to weakness of those muscles formerly innervated by the now-dead neurons.

This suggests that the observed microglial activation may be a downstream mechanism involved in clearing already damaged or dead dopaminergic neurons, rather than a crucial upstream mechanism leading to the loss of dopaminergic neurons in PINK1 deficiency.

Nissl staining disclosed a huge number of damaged or dead pyramidal neurons in the CA1 region in the BCCAO-operated WT mice (373±72/0.2 mm, n=8), but very few damaged neurons in the sham-operated WT mice (9.0±3.5, n=5).

An electrical prosthetic device appears to offer hope in replacing the function of degenerating or dead photoreceptor neurons.