Sentences with phrase «between obese mice»

Kravitz has a background in studying Parkinson's disease, and when he began conducting obesity research a few years ago, he was struck by similarities in behavior between obese mice and Parkinsonian mice.

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Probing the link between adiponectin deficiency and metabolic disorders like diabetes and obesity, researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City injected adiponectin into wild - type mice, diabetic mice, and obese diabetic mice.

«Understanding how the drug also enables crosstalk between fat cells and the liver in obese mice allows us to see more of the amlexanox picture — and also sheds light on communication between different tissues in the body.»

In 2005, together with Washington University microbiologist Jeffrey Gordon and others, Knight used the tools to catalog the microbes that inhabit the intestines of lean and obese mice, in hopes of uncovering relationships between microbes and metabolic health.

In rodents, ketogenic diets reduce reactive oxygen species in the brain34 and reduce central inflammation and reactive oxygen species in a model of multiple sclerosis.35 Two clinical papers have found that ketogenic diet feeding of 12 weeks to 6 months reduced signs of liver inflammation in obese patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (in addition to improving various other physiological and biochemical variables).36, 37 Unfortunately, basic research into non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has been hampered by species differences between mice and humans in their hepatic reaction to ketogenic diets.38