Sentences with phrase «damaged lungs of mice»

Not exact matches

«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«The virus penetrates more deeply into the lungs of obese mice, and the animals seem to have a more difficult time repairing the damage,» Schultz - Cherry said.

Mice who couldn't produce CHI3L1 / BRP -39, had acute lung cell damage, somewhat like AE patients who have a relative deficiency of CHI3L1.

Copeland's team also noted that these mice suffered from a host of immune - related problems, the most crippling being a flood of macrophages — a type of white blood cell — damaging the lungs and other organs.

One 2003 study revealed that carbon nanotubes could damage the lungs of rats and mice.

To measure the differences in immune system function between the two groups of older mice, the researchers examined the lungs to assess damage, counted the number of bacteria in the lungs, and calculated the number of the white blood cells (neutrophils).

The reduced numbers of bacteria and white blood cells resulted in less lung damage in the older mice who received extra vitamin E.

Exposure to linalool, a terpene found in flowers and spice plants, decreased inflammatory damage in the lungs of smoke - exposed mice.12 Linalool is found in lavender and basil, and in keeping with terpenes ability to defend against plant prey, is used by exterminators as an insecticide.

The researchers counted the number of damaged cells in the mice's lungs, and calculated a Pathology score based on this.