«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.
Not exact matches
The other five were conducted in
mice; they found that, after being exposed to the blood of
young mice, old
mice had less abnormal thickening of their heart, grew more nervous tissue, and saw improved cognitive function,
among other changes.
Among the
mice that received no THC, the middle - aged and elderly animals did far worse than the
young ones.