Sentences with phrase «cell culture studies involve»

Cell culture studies involve removing tissue (or even individual cells) from a plant or animal and growing them in a laboratory environment.

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The new study, led by Walter Mothes, a Yale microbial pathogens expert, involved creating one culture that mixed healthy rat cells with cells infected by the murine leukemia virus, a cancerous pathogen in rats and monkeys that is not known to affect humans.

These studies use a combination of cell biology, molecular biology and electrophysiology in cultured sensory - motor neurons from the marine invertebrate Aplysia californica, and cultured neurons from mouse hippocampus, and involve investigation of the function of specific molecules in neurons.

The cell types involved in diabetes — the beta and immune cells — are being studied in the culture dish, as well as transplanted into lab animals.

Using a mouse model for this disease, which in humans involves the destruction of white matter in the brain, a research team led by Albee Messing, director of the UW — Madison Waisman Center, found that a protein behind the symptoms of the disease, called GFAP, is broken down more rapidly in the body than researchers previously found in cell culture studies.

As for the EWGâ $ «referenced studies suggesting the dangers of cosmetic ingredients, Bailey says, «Many of these studies involve cell cultures where you take cells out of the body and you expose them to very high concentrations of a material.»

One study on the culturing method involved in the production of the Japanese traditional food «Miso» concluded that the culturing process itself led to a lower number and growth rate of cancer cells.

In a study involving dietary ketosis via a low carbohydrate diet (less than 10 percent of total calories), compared to subjects on a 50 percent carbohydrate diet, the low - carbohydrate subjects demonstrated better performance on memory tests, with higher scores being correlated to higher serum KB levels.14 A study using cultured mouse hippocampal cells showed that addition of the KB β - hydroxybutyrate (β - OHB) to cells exposed to Aβ resulted in no decrease in the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in AD.

In fact, in one study, a dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1 percent of lab rats (lethal dose «LD01»), when combined with a dose of lead sufficient to kill 1 percent, killed 100 percent of the rats.13 A similar test involving mercury and aluminum in cultured neurons killed 60 percent of the cells when the two low - dose toxicants (LD01) were combined.14 Even antibiotics have been shown to enhance the uptake, retention and toxicity of mercury.14 Additionally, testosterone appears to aggravate mercury toxicity during development, while estrogen protects against it.15 This may explain why more boys than girls are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit disorders.