A total of 60 male mice aged eight weeks were housed 4 per cage and were divided into five groups with 12 mice per group. (alzres.biomedcentral.com)
In 2014, highly publicized work in the laboratories of Villeda and Tony Wyss - Coray, PhD, professor of neurology at Stanford, showed that connecting the circulatory system of a young mouse to that of an old mouse could reverse the declines in learning ability that typically emerge as mice age. (sciencedaily.com)
His team previously found that the hypothalamus, which releases hormones that affect other organs, seems to affect how mice age. (newscientist.com)