Sentences with phrase «mouse study points»

«Mouse study points way to shut down harmful immune response in lupus.»

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I was tired of books with stories about generals, parables about mice, and endless scientific studies with numbers that could point any which way.

The duo admits they have little evidence to back up their proposal, but they point to studies in their lab on mice, which were altered to be susceptible to both BSE and scrapie prion infection.

Managing the microbiome instead of pummeling it with antibiotics has produced impressive results in chicken and mice studies, pointing the way not just to future human treatments but also to a healthier food supply.

Up to this point, the best way to study epigenetic effects has been a strain of mice known as agouti viable yellow.

The diabetes link makes sense, Melzer says, pointing to recent animal and cell studies finding that bisphenol A interferes with insulin production in mice.

Cameron also points to two studies of mice in diabetes research, where blood glucose levels are high.

Buxbaum and his coworkers point out that FOXP2 is also expressed in the brains of songbirds such as finches and canaries, and further studies of the gene in mice might provide a better understanding of its role in human communication.

Now, a study in mice points to a less invasive way to massage neuronal activity, by injecting metal nanoparticles into the brain and controlling them with magnetic fields.

To show why, he pulls out a raft of study results collected in a large three - ring binder and points to several studies showing that mice subjected to stress developed more cancers than normal mice.

«Our analyses and simulations point towards a gradual evolution of taller teeth, and in our future studies we will explore whether tinkering with the genetic mechanisms of tooth formation in lab mice — which have short molar teeth — will replicate the evolution of taller teeth,» says co-senior author Ophir Klein, an associate professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry.

Exactly what happens in the uterus to transmit this risk still isn't clear, but a new study on mice points to the placenta as a key actor.

Verma is quick to point out that although there have been two case studies in which BRCA1 mutations were linked to brain abnormalities, the dramatic effects documented in the mice in the study are unlikely to occur in women with a BRCA1 mutation, who still have some functioning BRCA1, compared with the mice who had none at all.

Smiley points out studying prolactin in birds and fish, rather than in mammals such as mice, sheds light onto how the hormone evolved.

In a study in the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Halade and colleagues looked at functional and structural changes of the three organs at four time points: one day and five days after heart attack, which is the acute heart failure period in the mouse model, and 28 days and 56 days after heart attack, which is the chronic heart failure period.

A previous study by Klann and his colleagues pointed to a potential cause for the condition — overexpression of a subunit of a protein termed Na / K - ATPase in AS model mice.

With so much work needed in studying the nature of stem cells and using them to study disease processes, therapies based on ES cells seem very far down the line, noted Lorenz Studer of Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who pointed out that so far there have only been two published papers on therapeutic cloning, both of them in mice.

Some 46 percent and 41 percent of IPM plus education and education only groups, respectively, had bedroom floor mouse allergen reductions of at least 90 percent at some point during the study.

Wasserman pointed out that the conceptual principles used to study mice are transferable to other vertebrate animals.

In their Nature Medicine paper, Fu and colleagues point out that these initial studies relied on human tumors transplanted into mice.

This study shows for the first time proteins interacting with Nbeal2 and points to the dysregulation of the canonical signaling pathway of Dock7 as a possible cause of the aberrant formation of platelets in GPS cases and Nbeal2 deficient mice.

Another point to consider is that the lead researcher in the mouse study is vegan.