With respect to other tissues, M. genus was found in specimens of brain and vagina.
Twelve patients received cysticidal drug therapy and 7 biopsy specimens of brain lesions were obtained from 7 patients (Table).
Analysis of pathological specimens of brain metastases excised from cancer patients revealed a significant increase in the number of immunocytes in the tumor microenvironment 6.
At necropsy of fox 634-8FE1, all specimens of brain (hippocampus, medulla oblongata, thalamus, cortex and cerebellum) were shown to be positive by FAT, RTCIT and RT-PCR.
Preliminary work in Hong Kong with RT-PCR on SARS autopsy specimens of brain tissue were positive for SARS-CoV, although electron microscopy did not show ultrastructural features of the virus (W.C. Yu, unpub. data).
Specimens of brain, spinal cord, heart, lung, liver, spleen, adrenal gland, thymus, testis, hind limb musculature and placenta were sampled, fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin, processed for histology by routine methods, sectioned at 4 μm and stained with hematoxylin and eosin.
The classical scrapie specimen was of brain stem from a field suspect of the animal prion protein gene Prnp ARQ/ARQ genotype, and a brain stem specimen from an unaffected scrapie suspect of the same genotype was also supplied.
A neurosurgical specimen of human brain glioma was collected at the Second Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University.
After rats were euthanized with isoflurane and cervical dislocation, specimens of the brain stem tissues rapidly flash frozen in liquid nitrogen were stored at −80 °C.
Interestingly our data in the rat model were further corroborated by the analysis of clinical specimens of human brain at early and late time points post radiation.
