Post Mortem Articles & Analysis
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The following light–dark cycle was used: dawn, 6:00–7:00; daylight, 7:00–18:00; dusk, 18:00–19:00; night, 19:00–6:00. Post-mortem human brain and sample preparation One human hippocampus sample was obtained from the Brain Collection of the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Columbia University53. ...
Although post-mortem brains have been frequently reported as the "gold standard" in transcriptomic research for ND and neuropsychiatric abnormalities, the main sources has been mRNA separated from transgenic animal models and, more lately, patient-derived cell lines. ...
Abnormal accumulation of misfolded tau in filaments is characteristic of many neurodegenerative diseases—precisely for this reason, these neurodegenerative diseases are collectively referred to as tauopathy. The Michel Goedert team and the Sjors Scheres team at the Molecular Biology Laboratory of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, UK, witnessed the use of cryo-EM to dissect tau ...
The mortuary holds approximately 60 bodies (including bariatric facilities) and also has 3 postmortem tables, since post-mortem examinations are sometimes requested by hospital doctors to provide more information about an illness or the cause of death, or to further medical research. ...