Sentences with phrase «aged lab mice»

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It is dominated by the far - seeing genius of Josh Boger, who at age 7 does experiments in a lab above his parents» garage (including sending a hapless mouse soaring aloft on a Hindenberg - type contraption he rigs up).

«When this question came up, I said, «Well, I have no idea,»» recalls Bartke, because the mice were always killed in the lab's endocrinology experiments before reaching old age.

The First International Symposium on Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology of Aging was held in 1992, and Bartke's lab presented some of its findings on aging in the giant Aging was held in 1992, and Bartke's lab presented some of its findings on aging in the giant aging in the giant mice.

Lead author David W. Frederick, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Baur lab, and the team generated mice in which they could restrict the amount of NAD in specific tissues in order to simulate this aspect of normal aging in otherwise healthy mice.

At PENN - PORT, Varamini worked in the research lab of physiology professor Joseph A. Baur, studying the molecular mechanisms of aging in transgenic mice.

Last year in Cell, Wagers's and Lee's labs reported that injections of GDF11 can reduce the thickening of the heart that typically comes with aging in mice.

«It was incredible to see that in adult mice, who have gone through normal development and aging, simply overexpressing Arc with a virus restored plasticity,» says co-first author Kyle Jenks, a graduate student in Shepherd's lab.

Research in mice, fruit flies, worms and other lab organisms has turned up many potential causes of aging.

A study by Stephen Abolins, Mark Viney and colleagues of the immune ecology of wild house mice — the same species as the lab mouse — shows that their immune state is promoted by individuals» body condition and constrained by their age.

The idea that biological age is measurable and predictive only recently moved out of the mouse lab into human epidemiology.

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.

To see if those effects might explain the link between paraquat, aging, and PD in living organisms, the team turned to genetically altered mice that the Campisi lab had developed for senescent cell studies.

In 2009, under the Interventions Testing Program of the National Institute of Aging that also funded this research, the Harrison lab reported that rapamycin significantly extends the lifespan of mice, the first demonstration of a pharmaceutical intervention to do so in mammals.

C.C. Little, the inventor of the modern lab mouse and founder of the Jackson Laboratory, had long used «the age old enmity of woman and the Muridae» as a sales pitch for his model organism.