CSF

American  

Physiology.

1. cerebrospinal fluid.

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CSF British  

abbreviation

1. physiol cerebrospinal fluid

2. immunol colony-stimulating factor

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Example Sentences

In participants without MS, these immune cells appeared in similar numbers in both the blood and CSF.

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In those patients, the protein recognizing CD8+ T cells were between 10 and 100 times more concentrated in the CSF than in the blood.

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EBV itself was detected in the CSF of most participants, regardless of whether they had MS.

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"If you don't sleep, the CSF waves start to intrude into wakefulness where normally you wouldn't see them. However, they come with an attentional tradeoff, where attention fails during the moments that you have this wave of fluid flow," says Laura Lewis, the Athinoula A. Martinos Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and an associate member of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.

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During sleep, CSF helps flush out waste that builds up during waking hours.

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