DMT is naturally occurring in small amounts in rat brain, human cerebrospinal fluid, and other tissues of humans and other mammals.

Like most animal tissues, brain metabolism depends primarily on glucose for fuel in most circumstances.

2009 compared transcriptional profiles using short-oligonucleotide microarrays ( Affymetrix Porcine GeneChip ) to survey differentially expressed genes between parthenotes ( 2 maternal genomes ) and control fetuses ( 1 maternal, 1 paternal genome ) An intriguing study surveying the transcriptome of murine brain tissues revealed over 1300 imprinted gene loci ( approximately 10-fold more than previously reported ) by Illumina RNA-sequencing ( RNA-Seq ) technology from F1 hybrids resulting from reciprocal crosses.

:* Schmidtea mediterranea a freshwater planarian ; a model for regeneration and development of tissues such as the brain and germline

MRI provides good contrast between the different soft tissues of the body, which makes it especially useful in imaging the brain, muscles, the heart, and cancers compared with other medical imaging techniques such as computed tomography ( CT ) or X-rays.

MRI is used to image every part of the body, and is particularly useful for tissues with many hydrogen nuclei and little density contrast, such as the brain, muscle, connective tissue and most tumors.

N < sup > 7 </ sup > and O < sup > 6 </ sup > of guanine and the N < sup > 3 </ sup > and N < sup > 7 </ sup > of adenine are most susceptible to attack ; while N < sup > 7 </ sup >- guanine adducts, which form the bulk of DNA adducts, appear to be non-mutagenic, alkylation at O < sup > 6 </ sup > of guanine is harmful because excision repair of O < sup > 6 </ sup >- adduct of guanine may be poor in some tissues such as the brain.

This results in intense radiolabeling of tissues with high glucose uptake, such as the brain, the liver, and most cancers.

The different forms or subtypes of phosphodiesterase were initially isolated from rat brains by Uzunov and Weiss in 1972 and were soon afterwards shown to be selectively inhibited in the brain and in other tissues by a variety of drugs.

* Delivering chemotherapy to brain cancer cells and various drugs to other tissues is called acoustic targeted drug delivery ( ATDD ).

The interaction between the endocrine system and tissues such as breast, brain, testicles, heart, bones, etc., is being extensively studied.

After menopause, estrogen continues to be produced in other tissues, notably the ovaries, but also in bone, blood vessels and even in the brain.

However the dramatic fall in circulating estradiol levels at menopause impacts many tissues, from brain to skin.

In the event of low blood glucose, most other tissues have additional energy sources besides ketone bodies ( such as fatty acids ), but the brain does not.

Most organisms are bathed in relatively high-intensity light that ought to swamp any signaling effect, although biophoton signaling might manifest through temporal patterns of distinct wavelengths or could mainly be used in deep tissues hidden from daylight ( such as the human brain, which contains photoreceptor proteins ).

This gene produces prion protein, which is active in the brain and other tissues and also appears to be involved in transporting copper.

Gummas are most commonly found in the liver ( gumma hepatis ), but can also be found in brain, heart, skin, bone, testis, and other tissues, leading to a variety of potential problems including neurological disorders or heart valve disease.

It is found not only in the brain, but also in the spinal cord, blood, and other body organs and tissues.

Ribavirin is widely distributed in all tissues, including the CSF and brain.

Such disorders usually manifest in early childhood and affect predominantly tissues with high energy demands ( brain, heart, muscle ).

The path of this current is difficult to model because the brain is irregularly shaped and electricity and magnetism are not conducted uniformly throughout its tissues.

It is still disputed on whether the chemicals are reaching the brain through the VNO or other tissues.

There are also concerns glycopeptide antibiotics do not penetrate very well into infected tissues ( this is a particular concern with infections of the brain and meninges and in endocarditis ).

Outside the brain FOXP2 has also been implicated in development of other tissues such as the lung and gut.

The wife, Amra, and her lover are both savagely portrayed, she as incarnate sensuality, `` voluptuous '' and `` indolent '', possibly `` a mischief maker '', with `` a kind of luxurious cunning '' to set against her apparent simplicity, her `` birdlike brain ''.

But even in relatively primitive laboratory animals such as the rat, sex activity closely identified with the hypothalamus and the visceral brain is enhanced by the neocortex.

The body, senses and brain, in common with all matter, have their counterpart on each of a countless number of frequencies.

He considered them with brooding eyes, brows bunched as his brain grappled with the problem and tried to find some solution.

I thought, you little brute, you nasty, selfish, little beast, with brutality already developed within that brain and in those eyes.

For Helva was destined to be the `` brain '' half of a scout ship, partnered with a man or a woman, whichever she chose, as the mobile half.

A ship run by a human brain could not run rogue or insane with the power and resources Central had to build into their scout ships.

Shell people resembled mature dwarfs in size whatever their natal deformities were, but the well-oriented brain would not have changed places with the most perfect body in the Universe.

The nervous system is basically the same as in other vertebrates, with a central brain, a spinal cord, and nerves throughout the body.

A single axon, with all its branches taken together, can innervate multiple parts of the brain and generate thousands of synaptic terminals.

The argument hinges on the idea that a satisfactory naturalistic account of thought processes in terms of brain processes can be given for mathematical reasoning along with everything else.

The mechanism of these types of antidepressants involves affecting the neurotransmitters used to communicate between brain cells ; they interfere with reuptake process of the specific chemical messengers.

The proposed mechanism of chronic nicotine causing desensitisation of nicotinic receptors, thereby leading to an antidepressant effect, is consistent with the theory first proposed over 30 years ago and subsequent research that confirmed excessive acetylcholine activity in the brain leads to depressive symptoms.

Picamilon is a prodrug formed by combining niacin with GABA that is able to cross the blood – brain barrier and is then hydrolyzed into GABA and niacin.

A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).

In Feb. 2011, a minor loss of brain tissue was reported in schizophrenics treated with antipsychotics.

Many studies now indicate that chronic treatment with antipsychotics affects the brain at a structural level, for example increasing the volume of the basal ganglia ( especially the caudate nucleus ), and reducing cortical grey matter volume in different brain areas.

Recent studies on macaque monkeys have found that administration of haloperidol or olanzapine for about two years led to a significant overall shrinkage in brain tissue, in both gray and white matter across several brain areas, with lower glial cell counts, due to a decrease in astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, and increased neuronal density.

Some scientists believe it has to do with a kind of neural map that the brain has of the body, which sends information to the rest of the brain about limbs regardless of their existence.

The brain signals the bone to grow instead of scar tissue to form, and nodules and other growth can interfere with prosthetics and sometimes require further operations.