Sentences with phrase «like lab mice»

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It's just like the classic behavioral conditioning «Skinner Box» experiments that train lab mice to press a lever to get a food pellet whenever a light comes on.

Another study published in 1999 by Anderson Laboratories found that lab mice exposed to various brands of disposable diapers experienced asthma - like symptoms, as well as eye, nose and throat irritation.

Like mice, rats are common in labs.

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

In a remote Turkish village, researchers have located a family with a mutation in the leptin gene similar to the one found in lab mice, and — just like the mice — adults with two copies of the mutation are grossly overweight and don't ever go through puberty.

Then the mosquito injects what is now a potential anti-malaria vaccine like a fusillade of tiny torpedoes into a lab mouse or a human volunteer.

Egg and sperm - like cells have recently been derived from animal stem cells, and this year the first mice were born from lab - grown sperm.

Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.

«When we feed mice high fat foods, which is like going to McDonalds every day, they become obese and lose most of their brown fat,» said study lead author Kosaku Shinoda, a postdoc in Kajimura's lab.

In a lab at MIT her team has genetically fast - forwarded the mice into a condition much like dementia: They have problems making new memories and retrieving old ones.

But in a 2012 study, they found that when they injected synthetic amyloids into lab mice bred to have an MS - like brain inflammation, the mice got better and were able to walk again.

Ralph Brinster, part of the team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia that first cultured sperm stem cells in the lab, has written that culturing stem cells from human sperm is not far off — humans and mice, like other mammals, he says, require similar growth factors.

To this aim we generated new conditional knockout mouse strains, which are currently analyzed to unravel the mechanism of a recently discovered unexpected protective role of TNFSF14 / LIGHT by our lab in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)- like mouse model.

Genetically altering lab mice, they made sure the gene known to cause luminal - like breast cancer was present but they also inactivated the cyclin D1.

Dr. Srivastava's lab has leveraged the body of knowledge from cardiac developmental biology to reprogram non-muscle cells in the mouse heart directly into cells that function like heart muscle cells, effectively regenerating heart muscle after damage.

To answer basic research questions like these, investigators study bacteria, viruses, fungi, animal cells and human cells (both healthy and cancerous) grown in the lab, and tumors in animals, such as mice and rats.

A striking example of this is MPP +, a well - established neurotoxin that specifically attacks the SNc dopaminergic neurons in lab mice, monkeys — and in humans: MPP +'s parent compound, MPTP, has caused numerous cases of Parkinson's - like syndrome in young people exposed to it in underground drug labs, or via contaminated street drugs.1

In previous research, scientists have found that caffeine can protect lab mice from developing an MS - like condition — by blocking part of the inflammatory process that damages nerves in the brain and spine.

One path includes working with lab animals like rats and mice in a company setting.

And located on TCC's West Campus, the vet tech program sports a 20,000 squarefoot teaching facility with classrooms, clinical laboratories, a treatment area for large animals with stalls for cattle restraint, and a small animal treatment area with six wet tables to examine and treat small animals like dogs and cats, and lab animals like rabbits, rats and mice.

This also is prompting a drift away from science relying so heavily on artificially inducing infirmities in lab animals, like mice and rats, in order to examine those ailments, he added.

You will also have an opportunity to work with, lab animals including mice, rats and guinea pigs and exotic animals like eagles, lizards, snakes, owls, hawks, vultures, eagles, and hawks.