Sentences with phrase «adult mouse lungs»

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«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Specifically, the researchers found that a peptide, called STAT6 - IP, when delivered to the lungs of neonatal mice at the time of first RSV exposure reduces the development of allergic - type lung inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness («twitchy» airways) in mice when they are «re-challenged» with RSV as young adults.

• A Yale research team led by Diane Krause turned a single stem cell from the bone marrow of an adult mouse into lung, liver, intestinal, and skin cells for other mice.

Adult male mice also started off with fewer of the lymphoid cells in the lungs than adult females, the researchers found: Female mice had about 1 1/2 times as many of these immune cells as mAdult male mice also started off with fewer of the lymphoid cells in the lungs than adult females, the researchers found: Female mice had about 1 1/2 times as many of these immune cells as madult females, the researchers found: Female mice had about 1 1/2 times as many of these immune cells as males.