They destroyed the T cells in 12 mice, five of which received marrow
cells from normal mice while seven received marrow from mice with a defective Fas - ligand gene.
When she compared the «healer» cells from the lupus mice with «nonhealer»
cells from normal mice, she noticed several differences.
Not exact matches
In experiments on
normal and MLL
cells from mice and humans, the researchers demonstrated that beta - catenin is activated in cancer stem
cells that prompt leukaemic blood
cells to multiply.
When the Stanford team measured pyrophosphate levels in cultured
cells derived
from ank and
normal mice, they found that the chemical accumulated in
cells from the ank
mice but decreased in the culture medium.
They expected eggs to be more complex, but last year, Hayashi made PGCs in vitro with
cells from a
mouse with
normal coloring and then transferred them into the ovaries of an albino
mouse.
In another experiment, the research team transferred infection - combatting white blood
cells — called neutrophils —
from normal mice to genetically mutated
mice.
During her postdoctoral work, Bissell noticed that removing mammary
cells from a
mouse and putting them into a culture dish caused them to lose not only their
normal in vivo shapes, but also their ability to secrete milk.
The scientists first compared
mouse megakaryocyte
cells created
from embryonic stem
cells engineered to lack p45 - Nfe2 with
normal megakaryocytes.
Not only did the
normal mice develop plaques, but also a pathology similar to «tangles» — twisted protein strands that form inside brain
cells, disrupting their function and eventually killing them
from the inside - out.
Mice generated
from embryonic stem
cells in which ion channel genes have been mutated by homologous recombination often have a perfectly
normal heart.
(Left) Blood smears
from anemic
mice indicate irregular shapes of red blood
cells; (right) wild type
mice indicate
normal shapes of red blood
cells.
As controls, fibroblasts and secretions
from normal lab rats,
mice, and another rodent called the spiny
mouse were powerless to stop the human cancer
cells growing.
Kipnis and his colleagues wondered how smart
mice would be if they had a
normal supply of T
cells everywhere in their bodies except the meninges, so he injected a compound into
mice that prevented T
cells from reaching the meninges.
This time, Xu used a sophisticated technique called droplet digital PCR to count the ribosomal DNA copies in
normal and cancer
cells from the
mice.
Bone marrow
from the p16 - deficient
mice made 3 times as many blood - forming stem
cells as bone marrow
from the
normal mice did.
Faustman got her idea by chance while transplanting islets, the pancreatic bodies that contain beta
cells,
from normal mice into others that had lost theirs to type 1, or juvenile, diabetes.
For the first time, researchers have been able to grow, in a lab, both
normal and primary cancerous prostate
cells from a patient, and then implant a million of the cancer
cells into a
mouse to track how the tumor progresses.
Experiments on
mice and on heart
cells obtained
from infants born with congenital heart disease suggest that neuregulin 1, a human growth factor, can put infant heart
cells on a path that mimics
normal growth rather than stalling out.
But many in the field will be waiting for the next steps: testing whether the resulting
mouse pups are genetically
normal, trying out the technique in other animals, and using other and less controversial types of
cells — such as stem
cells that can be extracted and cryopreserved
from adult testicular tissue — as the starting point.
Although muscle
cells did not reduce in size or number in
mice lacking a protective antioxidant protein, they were weaker than
normal muscle
cells, researchers
from the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio found.
The researchers compared
mice with a
normal glymphatic system to those with a disabled gene that prevented glial
cells from assisting in the fluid flow.
The green - labelled
cells show a basal
cell carcinoma in
mouse tail epidermis derived
from a single mutant stem
cell and expanding out of the
normal epidermis stained in red.
They observed a significant decrease in the number of proliferating stem
cells in the brains of HIV / gp120 -
mice compared with similar tissue
from normal, wild - type
mice.
Mice that received
normal levels of prenatal vitamin A,
from a regular diet, were born with more fat - loading white fat
cells, fewer brown fat
cells and fewer blood vessels.
Using adoptive transfer experiments we found that spleen
cells from persistently infected (carrier)
mice actively suppressed the expected LCMV - specific CTL response of spleen
cells from normal adult
mice.
Organoids enabled the team to compare
normal pancreatic ductal
cells in six
mice with
cells from the same animals in three distinct stages: premalignant, malignant, and metastatic.
The resulting
mice had
normal populations of T regulatory
cells from the thymus, but significantly diminished numbers of pTregs.
The present study employed Ighb scid
mice reconstituted with
normal lymphocytes
from young (2 -3-mo-old) and aged (20 -25-mo-old) donors and immunized with a protein conjugate of the hapten (4 - hydroxy -3-nitrophenyl) acetyl (NP) to determine whether the molecular changes in antibody repertoire reflect senescence in the B
cells or whether they are mediated by the aging helper T lymphocytes.
Furthermore, histological examination of the testes indicated that the morphology of seminiferous tubules
from F0 IVC
mice appeared
normal, but some seminiferous tubules showed germ
cell - deficiency.
The Barcode database provides gene expression information about thousands of
mouse and human samples
from different
normal and cancerous
cells / tissues obtained pre - or postnatally.
Cells with
normal karyotype were injected into blastocysts isolated
from C57BL / 6
mice.
* Oddly enough, however, the experiments with fresh pancreatic islets and fat
cells taken
from the
mice suggested that the positive effects of uncarboxylated osteocalcin on insulin only occurred at concentrations extremely low compared to those of undercarboxylated osteocalcin normally present in
mice, while the effects on adiponectin and energy expenditure only occurred at
normal to high concentrations.