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Given that the specific activity of NAGLU in liver homogenates was five times the specific activity found in homogenates of brain slice 1, and that a mouse liver is nearly three times as large as its ...

In this video, we explore an impressive brain coral by cutting an exciting cross-section, which is then transformed into an amazing ring. The Long Shadow Of Bill Clinton Over The ‘One Big ...

† Department of Molecular & Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands ‡ ...

After they were deeply anesthetized, we quickly cut off the head of the mouse with straight scissors and put it on ice, cutting the scalp to expose the skull. Then, the skull was carefully dissected ...

Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, and Institute for Animal Genetics, Medical University of Vienna, Himberg, Austria * To whom correspondence should be addressed.

But, it turns out that quiet isn’t passive at all. In fact, after just three days of intentional silence, the brain begins to physically and functionally rewire itself. A growing body of ...

To do so, Papouin and his team stimulated norepinephrine secretion from mouse brain cells or exposed mouse brain slices to norepinephrine and found that norepinephrine weakened connections between ...

In both Drosophila and mammals, the brain contains the most diverse population of cell types of any tissue. It is generally accepted that transcriptional diversity is an early step in generating ...

The slice of code — a stretch of DNA that acts like a dial to turn up the expression of certain genes — expanded the outer layer of the mouse brain by increasing the production of cells that ...

Andrew Luskin conducted research on the brain's peri-locus coeruleus neurons while he was a UW Medicine neuroscience Ph.D. student. A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the ...