Sentences with phrase «while young mice»

While young mice (18 weeks, equivalent to young adults) lost only a few percent of body weight on the starvation low protein diets, elderly mice (2 years old) wasted away on low protein diets.

Not exact matches

It's probably safe to say no D.J. played Modest Mouse at the uptown event, but white hair was still a hot accessory later in the night, as the older crowd gravitated towards the velvet couches (under the taxidermic animals) while younger bunches of volunteers, filmmakers, and tech consultants crowded the bars and would - be dance floor.

«This well - designed set of experiments shows that chronic THC pretreatment appears to restore a significant level of diminished cognitive performance in older mice, while corroborating the opposite effect among young mice,» wrote Susan Weiss, director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who was not involved in the study, in an e-mail.

The researchers measured NF - κB activation in mouse brains as they aged and noted that, while the protein was barely active in the hypothalamuses of young mice, it became increasingly active as the mice got older.

Comparing 13 month old mice to 3 month old mice, blocking the femoral artery in the hind leg causes all older mice to lose their legs while only about a third of younger mice have to lose their legs.

Using a technique called parabiosis, in which the vascular systems of two mice are surgically connected, Villeda's lab had previously discovered that infusing old mice with the blood of younger mice leads to brain rejuvenation, including improvements in learning and memory, while infusions of old blood cause premature brain aging in young mice.

While the geriatric mouse lived a sedentary life in his cage, his younger - looking contemporary literally outran the effects of aging.

In line with the behavioral data, our whole brain TissueCyte ® based analyses suggests that younger mice (∼ 4 - 5 months) exhibit very sparse parenchymal plaques while aged mice (> 7 months) show a clear progression in the number / size of plaques and display differential increases in regional plaque load number / size.

However, while I think it is clear that the dramatic weight loss in the elderly mice fed low protein is harmful, it is far from clear that the slight weight loss of the younger mice was harmless.

While supplementing experimental mice with this microbial species, the investigators noted that the mice began to appear younger in as little as one week.

Edison Chen and Shawn Yue portray the younger Ming and Yan, just as they had done briefly in the first film, and while they are fine in their own way, this film really belongs to Hong Kong's veteran character actors Anthony Wong (The Medallion, Cat and Mouse), Eric Tsang, and Francis Ng.

A Donald Duck portrait is attached to the half of a shoe adorned with feathers, Mickey Mouse is using a dildo, while the young and beautiful models of the old fashioned advertisements, that we see in the window fronts of pharmacies until today, are bearing braces in their perfect white teeth.