A spinal tap is needed to collect cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The CSF of people infected with meningitis often shows a low sugar level along with an increased protein and white blood cell (WBC) count. A CSF analysis helps the doctor to identify which bacteria has caused the infection. CT ...
A lumbar puncture (LP) or spinal tap involves inserting a hollow needle near the spinal cord to collect a small amount of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and diagnose meningitis, hemorrhage, multiple sclerosis, and tumors. A lumbar puncture (LP) is also called a spinal tap. It involves the inserti...
Inversion therapy can cause blood to collect in the brain, which can cause the brain to hemorrhage. What are the benefits of inversion? Inversion therapy should only be done in very short intervals. It has the following benefits: (1) Increases production of protective fluid around the spinal ...
“Multi-omics is the only way forward,” says epidemiologist Cornelia van Duijn, at the University of Oxford, UK. “We can’t study the effect of one gene at a time, we need to look at the aggregate of genes; moreover, we need more than one ‘omic-wide’ dataset to not miss somet...
However, learners who are new to TRIZ are unable to comprehend the application of TRIZ because TRIZ tools that seem to be simple to use appear ambiguous when applied to solve the problems. This paper highlights ten pitfalls in teaching TRIZ and how to avoid them, especially to learners ...
Cerebrospinal fluid is the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, contained by a connective tissue sheath called the dura mater. Latin for “tough mother,” the dura mater has a critical job: it keeps the CSF within its borders to cushion and protect the brain and spine. ...
For a test of prevalent diseases (e.g. urinary tract infection), a specific time period (e.g. 2 weeks) can be planned to collect the required number of samples. During this period, the new and reference tests can be simultaneously tested on patients' specimens from the population where th...
Importantly, the proposed approach can be readily incorporated into clinical practice. Commercial-gradedigital devicesare readily available to collect drawing data from patients, such that clinicians may employ this highly feasible, easy-to-use, and economical tool to improve diagnostic decision-making in...
Neurologist and sleep medicine physician Jeffrey Drumer says when we're awake for too long, the body collects an excess of adenosine, a neurochemical found in the cerebrospinal fluid in the brain and spinal cord that activates the body's sleep systems once it reaches a certain concentration. ...
After lysis, centrifugation at 12000 rpm and 4 °C for 30 min was performed to collect the supernatant. This supernatant was collected in 50 mL Falcon tube and placed in boiling water (100 °C) for about 15 min. This solution was subjected to another round of centrifugation at 12000 rpm ...