Studies
comparing the mouse and human sequences that accompany the mouse genome in the journal Nature suggest it provides plenty of new leads in biology and disease.
They have also
compared the mouse and human genomes, which together are expected to help researchers find genes for diseases and lead to new treatments for human illness.
Not exact matches
Compared with
mice with cells from healthy people as well as non-chimera
mice, those whose brains had
human schizophrenia cells were more afraid to explore a maze, more anxious, more antisocial, less able to feel pleasure (from sipping sugar water), worse at remembering,
and more sleepless — all of which characterize people with schizophrenia, too.
Recent collaborative work between UCR
and Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles demonstrated that in animal models of
human breast cancer,
mice treated with 123B9 that was conjugated with paclitaxel had significantly fewer circulating cancer cells in the blood
compared to
mice that were not treated or even treated with paclitaxel alone.
The researchers have
compared various processes involved in gene expression, such as gene transcription
and chromatin modification,
and have repeated this in different tissues
and cell types from both
humans and mice.
The scientists have detailed the functional parts of the
mouse genome
and have
compared them with those in
humans.
More importantly, within the afflicted groups, both the
mice and humans had similarly poor performance in the hidden target trials, making the Morris Maze Test a useful tool for
comparing our two species, the researchers say.
Then they
compared the results with the genetically modified
mice, as well with healthy
humans and mice.
Compared with earlier methods to tweak the genomes of bacteria, plants, laboratory
mice and human cells, the Crispr - Cas9 gene - editing method is fast, precise
and cheap, an order of magnitude better than the others.
It's hard to
compare sugar doses between
humans and mice, which expend more energy relative to body weight than
humans.
By
comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of
mice, chimps
and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time,
and gained insights into
human diseases.
Bejerano
and his colleagues originally noticed ultraconserved elements when they
compared the
human genome to those of
mice, rats
and chickens,
and found 481 stretches of DNA that were incredibly similar across the species.
«Lactobacillus, themselves, appear to differ in both organization
and numbers in a
mouse's digestive system
compared to a
human's, for example,» Patterson said.
To test the hypothesis, Frankland
and his team first
compared the stability of memories in adult
mice versus 17 - day - old
mice, which are equivalent to
human babies less than a year old.
Pavel Pevzner
and Glenn Tesler
compared the just - sequenced
mouse genome with its
human counterpart
and analyzed where rearrangements, a common type of genetic mutation, occur.
It highlighted differences in the structure
and make up of
human NMJs
compared with those of
mice and rats, which are routinely used in studying neuromuscular diseases.
Andrechek's federally funded study looked at
mice containing all subtypes
and compared the makeup of the rodent tumors
and the way the genes acted, known as gene expression, to
human tumor data.
In a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Snyder
and his colleagues
compared gene expression in 15 different tissue types in
mice and humans.
In the Nature papers, the researchers
compared gene transcription, chromatin modification
and other processes that control gene activity in a wide range of
mouse and human tissues
and cell types.
Comparing levels of S1PR2 in people with MS,
mice with a similar disease,
and healthy
humans and mice, the team found the groups with MS or the MS - like disease had higher levels of the protein, meaning the blood - brain barrier was more permeable.
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Mouse and human kidney development
compared: Findings may lead to advances in the study
and treatment of kidney disease.»
Used together, pemetrexed
and gemcitabine doubled life expectancy of
mice with
human group 3 medulloblastoma,
compared to untreated
mice.
Most convincing of all, Knight believes, is that when samples of gut bacteria from the jet - lagged
humans were transplanted into healthy
mice, the animals gained weight, showed increased blood sugar,
and had a higher body fat content
compared with animals given the bacteria of participants before their flight.
Based on the observation that obese
mice, rats,
and humans all had elevated serum concentrations of a protein called GDF15
compared to lean controls, Yumei Xiong
and colleagues set out to develop therapies derived from the molecule.
The study
compared the effectiveness of the new tracer with 11C - choline (already widely used for imaging prostate cancer) in two
mouse models
and also performed the first PET / CT scan with 11C - sarcosine of a
human with prostate cancer.
Mice,
compared with
humans, are more richly endowed in genes for sex, sense of smell,
and immunity against pathogens.
In this respect, it is known that the circulating levels of myostatin protein in
humans are considerably lower than in
mice [14], [21], raising the possibility that the balance of the relative roles played by myostatin
and by these other regulators may have shifted further away from myostatin in
humans compared to
mice.
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Mice and humans both have about 30,000 genes -
and share 99 % of them - but the
mouse genome is shorter than that of
humans (2.5 billion letters
compared with 2.9 billion)---- About 1,200 new genes have been discovered in the
human because of
mouse -
human genome comparisons.
In a recent review, researchers from the French Institute of Health
and Medical Research (INSERM), Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
and University of Paris - Diderot
compared the effects of six potential EDs on the function of rat,
mouse and human fetal testis at comparable stages of their development.
We
compared the sensitivity of performance measures
and statistical methods for detecting impairments in hAPP
mice and humans with MCI - AD.
A trivalent inactivated seasonal influenza vaccine (TIV) used in
humans will be
compared directly in
mice, ferrets
and pigs.
Young
mice that expressed high levels of
human amyloid - β (but did not have pathological plaques) infected in the brain with Salmonella typhimurium were more likely to survive the infection
compared to wild - type
mice that did not express the peptide, Tanzi, Moir,
and their colleagues found.
Comparing humans and mice has the potential to reveal key features of mammalian biology,
and more insights will emerge as more genomes are completed.
To determine whether or not increased DNA gain or loss likely had an evolutionary impact we
compared human and mouse gene expression divergence.
When
compared with the
human genome it was found that the two genomes were of similar size
and almost every gene in the
human genome has a counterpart in the
mouse.
«We discovered that the
human DNA sequence, which only had 16 changes in it
compared to the chimp sequence, was being expressed differently in
mice,» said study author Debra Silver, an assistant professor of molecular genetics
and microbiology in the Duke University Medical School.
Comparing the gene catalog to the microbiome gene collections that already existed for
humans,
mice,
and pigs... -LSB-...]
To assess the speed with which both
humans and chimpanzees accumulated many small differences in gene sequences accurately, Wu
and colleagues in Taiwan
and Japan decided to sequence several thousand genes expressed in the brain of the macaque monkey
and compare them with available genomic sequences from
human, chimpanzee,
and mice.
Scientists at Penn State College of Medicine, working alongside an international team of researchers, have produced the most complete encyclopedia of functional elements in the
mouse genome to date
and compared it to the
human genome.
Examination of brain homogenates from immunized TG
mice revealed no effect on monomeric
human AS as
compared with vehicle - treated animals, but a 45 % reduction in oligomeric AS
and a trend toward reduction of
human AS dimers.
When the researchers
compared the timelines for
mice and humans, the waves of microbes matched closely.
By looking at
and comparing the genomes of
humans,
mice, cows,
and two types of fish, these researchers were able to discern general patterns in what led to the emergence of new life forms in different time periods.
He
and colleagues Lawrence Grossman
and Derek Wildman
compared approximately 10,000 protein coding genes culled from the dolphin genome with comparable genes from 9 other animals: a cow, horse, dog,
mouse,
human, elephant, opossum, platypus
and chicken.
When infused into
mice bearing
human tumors, CD26high T cells more efficiently reconstituted immunodeficient hosts
and persisted long - term
compared to other subsets.
The next step is to study the function of macrophages in salamanders
and compare them with their
human and mouse counterparts.
When the treatment used in
humans (recombinant protein) was applied in
mice and directly
compared to the mRNA therapy, the mRNA therapy was more effective, maintaining 20 percent more clotting activity four days after injection.
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Mouse host inflammatory gene transcripts (ifn - α, il - 1β and il - 12) in mouse brains were not induced by implantation of untreated compared to heat - treated human brain homogen
Mouse host inflammatory gene transcripts (ifn - α, il - 1β
and il - 12) in
mouse brains were not induced by implantation of untreated compared to heat - treated human brain homogen
mouse brains were not induced by implantation of untreated
compared to heat - treated
human brain homogenates.
In a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Snyder
and his colleagues
compared gene expression in 15 different tissue types in
mice and humans.
Humans and pigs are so sensitive to toxins
compared to rats,
mice, cats,
and all these other things, way more sensitive because of the way we process, the way we bioaccumulate.
The Effect of Acetyl - L - carnitine
and R - alpha - lipoic acid Treatment in ApoE4
Mouse as a Model of
Human Alzheimer's Disease J Neurol Sci 2009 (Mar 31)[Epub ahead of print] We measured age - dependent effects of human ApoE4 on cerebral blood flow (CBF) using ApoE4 transgenic mice compared to age - matched wild - type (WT) mice by use of -LSB-(14) C] iodoantipyrene autoradiogr
Human Alzheimer's Disease J Neurol Sci 2009 (Mar 31)[Epub ahead of print] We measured age - dependent effects of
human ApoE4 on cerebral blood flow (CBF) using ApoE4 transgenic mice compared to age - matched wild - type (WT) mice by use of -LSB-(14) C] iodoantipyrene autoradiogr
human ApoE4 on cerebral blood flow (CBF) using ApoE4 transgenic
mice compared to age - matched wild - type (WT)
mice by use of -LSB-(14) C] iodoantipyrene autoradiography.