Ultimately, Godwin would like to understand why macrophages produced by
adult mice and humans don't suppress scarring in the same way as in axolotls and then identify molecules and pathways that could be exploited for human therapies.
Adult mice and humans can regenerate digit tips, although humans lose this ability with age, suggesting that regenerative abilities could be reawakened in mammals.
In their study «D - Serine and Serine Racemase are Localized to Neurons in
the Adult Mouse and Human Forebrain,» the lab utilized SR deficient (SR - / --RRB- mice, which have < 15 % of normal D - serine levels, to validate and optimize a D - serine immunohistochemical method.
Not exact matches
The team found neonatal
mice with the mutations had normal - appearing skin,
and the dry itchy skin of dermatitis did not develop until the
mice were a few months old, the equivalent of a young
adult in
human years.
The investigators report that trapping virus - loaded stem cells in a gel
and applying them to tumors significantly improved survival in
mice with glioblastoma multiforme, the most common brain tumor in
human adults and also the most difficult to treat.
Using a
mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of
human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by
adult women or female
mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development
and spread of infection during birth.
The results obtained by Afsaneh Gaillard's team
and that Pierre Vanderhaeghen at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in
Human and Molecular Biology show, for the first time, using
mice, that pluripotent stem cells differentiated into cortical neurons make it possible to reestablish damaged
adult cortical circuits, both neuroanatomically
and functionally.
To test the hypothesis, Frankland
and his team first compared the stability of memories in
adult mice versus 17 - day - old
mice, which are equivalent to
human babies less than a year old.
Because neurogenesis surges in newborn
mice and humans and then tapers to a slow trickle by adulthood, Frankland
and colleagues wondered if that explosion of new neurons could help explain the widespread phenomenon of infantile amnesia — the inability of
adults to remember events that occurred before they were 2 to 4 years old.
Prins took
human prostate stem cells from deceased young
adult male organ donors
and implanted the cells into
mice, where they formed
human prostate tissue.
Working with
mouse, fly
and human cells
and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence that disruptions in the movement of cellular materials in
and out of a cell's control center — the nucleus — appear to be a direct cause of brain cell death in Huntington's disease, an inherited
adult neurodegenerative disorder.
Because of the difficulties involved in harvesting
and culturing
adult human neurons, most research on DRG neurons has been done in
mice.
This presumably means that, at the
adult stage,
human astrocytes, in contrast to
mouse astrocytes, are better at detecting neuroactivity
and adjusting their functions in response.
A treatment group of
mice were given an intake of folic acid 20 times greater than the RDA for
humans: while the folic acid dosage consumed by most
adults is lower
and taken over a longer period of time, a higher dose was used in this study to account for the fact that
mice are more efficient in metabolizing folic acid than
humans.
Xiaowei «George» Xu, MD, PhD, associate professor of Pathology
and Laboratory Medicine
and Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,
and colleagues published in Nature Communications a method for converting
adult cells into epithelial stem cells (EpSCs), the first time anyone has achieved this in either
humans or
mice.
A total of 22
mouse mutant lines can be characterised through a broad based primary phenotyping pipeline in all the major
adult organ systems
and most areas of major
human disease.
Gene expression patterns in normal
adult or the developing retina have been reported for
mouse [18 — 23], aged
and normal
adult human [24 — 26], canine [27],
and rabbit [28].
And they still have to discover and test drugs that can do this for natural - born adult humans; the mice used in this study were genetically engineer
And they still have to discover
and test drugs that can do this for natural - born adult humans; the mice used in this study were genetically engineer
and test drugs that can do this for natural - born
adult humans; the
mice used in this study were genetically engineered.
Paracrine signalling loops in
adult human and mouse pancreatic islets: netrins modulate beta cell apoptosis signalling via dependence receptors.
Having shown that it's possible to directly reprogram
mouse fibroblasts (in a dish
and in
adult hearts)
and also
human heart fibroblasts in a dish, Dr. Srivastava's group is testing the recipe in pigs, whose heart size
and physiology is closer to our own.
Yamanaka's group used
human adult dermal fibroblasts
and induced them to become iPSCs, appearing
and functioning like hESCs, by having them express the same proteins as he used with
mouse cells: Oct - 4, Sox2, Klf4,
and c - Myc (Takahashi et al., 2007).
I'm not saying we must test this
humans but testing faster ECM turnover rates in older
adult mice, cat's, dogs, pigs, naked mole rats, apes
and other close - related mammals to
human to see how bad it gets,
and if it's possible to revert to pre-adolescence or, at the latest, very - early adulthood levels.
Yamanaka's group used
human adult skin cells
and induced them to become iPS cells by having them produce the same protein factors that the
mouse iPS cells had.
GIND investigator Li Gan, PhD,
and her collaborators studied the development of neurons born in the hippocampus of
adult mice genetically engineered to produce high levels of
human Aβ in the brain.
These
mice developed hallmark signs of PD in their brains
and behavior: loss of dopaminergic neurons in the SNc, impaired generation of new neurons in one of the few regions capable of producing them in
adult organisms,
and impaired muscle coordination similar to
human victims of Parkinson's (as evidenced by difficulty in rearing up on their hind legs)(Figure 2).
Mouse mutant lines can be tested through a broad based primary phenotyping pipeline in all the major
adult organ systems
and most areas of major
human disease.
Starting with transplants of
human oligodendrocytes in the late 1980s [40],
and more recently with populations of
human oligodendrocyte progenitor cells isolated from the developing or
adult CNS, or from
human embryonic stem cells, it has been possible to generate extensive myelination upon transplantation into spinal cord injury or into congenital
mouse models of hypomyelination [41]--[48].
TPH2 (55 KDa) was detected using a goat anti −
mouse IgG horseradish peroxidase - conjugated secondary antibody (1:10 000; Bio-RAD, Hercules, California) followed by Chemiluminescence ECL (PerkinElmer, Waltham, Massachusetts)
and quantified from densitometry bands (MCID Elite 6; Imaging Research Inc, Ontario, California) standardized to
human adult raphé obscurus run on the same gel.
Test each mutant
mouse line (4,000
mouse lines in the first 5 years,
and ultimately up to 20,000) through a broad based primary phenotyping pipeline in all the major
adult organ systems
and most areas of major
human diseases.Through this activity
and employing data annotation tools, systematically aim to discover
and ascribe biological function to each gene, driving new ideas
and underpinning future research into biological systems.
InvivoSciences makes engineered heart tissues from
mouse embryonic stem cells
and stem cells from differentiated
adult tissues in
humans, such as fat
and skin.
Together with previous findings, a total of seven out of eight bilaterian species examined (
human,
mouse, cattle, chicken, fish medaka, sea urchin
and fruit fly) representing three different phyla express Boule in the
adult testis [35], [53], [60].
Pluripotent stem cells can be generated from
adult mouse - tail tip fibroblasts
and adult human fibroblasts by the retrovirus - mediated transfection of four transcription factors, Oct3 / 4, Sox2, c - Myc,
and Klf4.
Three recent experimental studies focused on low consumption / exposure.949596 In one study, 29 smokers each consumed a single cigarette, immediately after which they had a significant decrease in blood vessel output power
and significant increase in blood vessel ageing level
and remaining blood volume 25 minutes later, as markers of atherosclerosis.94 In another study,
human coronary artery endothelial cells were exposed to the smoke equivalent to one cigarette, which led to activation of oxidant stress sensing transcription factor NFR2
and up - regulation of cytochrome p450, considered to have a role in the development of heart disease.95 These effects were not seen when heart cells were exposed to the vapour from one e - cigarette.95 A study exposed
adult mice to low intensity tobacco smoke (two cigarettes) for one to two months
and found adverse histopathological effects on brain cells.96
The delicate balance between the
human microbiome
and the development of psychopathologies is particularly interesting given the ease with which the microbiome can be altered by external factors, such as diet, 23 exposure to antimicrobials24, 25 or disrupted sleep patterns.26 For example, a link between antibiotic exposure
and altered brain function is well evidenced by the psychiatric side - effects of antibiotics, which range from anxiety
and panic to major depression, psychosis
and delirium.1 A recent large population study reported that treatment with a single antibiotic course was associated with an increased risk for depression
and anxiety, rising with multiple exposures.27 Bercik et al. 28 showed that oral administration of non-absorbable antimicrobials transiently altered the composition of the gut microbiota in
adult mice and increased exploratory behaviour
and hippocampal expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), while intraperitoneal administration had no effect on behaviour.