Sentences with phrase «deprived mice»

It's logical to assume that the smell - deprived mice were simply eating less, but the results showed that both groups were eating the same amount of food throughout the study period and all mice maintained the same amount of physical activity.

Then, they put the smell - deprived mice on either a normal healthy mouse diet or a high - fat junk - food mouse diet.

Lipolysis, the release of stored fat, was increased; lipogenic enzymes, including fatty acid synthase, were reduced; and uncoupling protein was increased in brown fat, which results in burning more fat for heat production.How much weight loss was experienced by the leucine - deprived mice, and how did it occur?

The leucine deprived mice lost about 15 percent body mass, related in part to a near equivalent reduction in daily calorie intake (15 percent).

Markers of metabolism supported the hypothesis that energy expenditure was increased in leucine deprived mice.

The control mice are normal mice, eating as much as they will; the pair - fed mice are normal mice eating a normal diet, but only as much as the leucine - deprived mice chose to eat; the leucine deprived mice ate as much as they wanted, but they chose to eat 15 percent less than the control mice, (thus, the pair - fed also ate 15 percent less than control, but it was a diet that contained a normal amount of leucine).

Of the weight lost, the leucine - deprived mice lost a significant amount from the abdominal fat depot, roughly 40 percent; the leucine - fed mice fed the same number of calories did not lose a significant amount of abdominal fat.

Pair - fed mice lost only 5 percent of bodyweight, and their lean mass did not change appreciably; leucine deprived mice lost 15 percent of body - weight, and their lean mass was the same as the control mice, and unchanged.There were no strength or endurance challenges, but when one considers that the mice lost 50 percent of abdominal fat, 15 percent of bodyweight, and had no loss of lean mass, that is incredible.

Actually, the leucine - deprived mice showed no difference in lean mass, from either the control mice or those that were restricted to the same number of (reduced) calories consumed by the leucine - deprived mice.

STUDY ONE — scientists gathered several sleep - deprived mice and discovered that when fed ashwagandha, their previously elevated lipid peroxide levels, which were caused by lack of sleep, fell to normal levels.

Compared to alcohol - deprived mice, alcohol - drinking mice had lower overall brain volume and reduced volume in the cerebral cortex (blue) and thalamus (purple).

Researchers deprived mice and rats of salt, then offered them salty water to drink.

The researchers measured 40 % more of the enzyme PDE4A5 in the brains of sleep - deprived mice than in normal mouse brains.

But sleep - deprived mice that received shots of rolipram after their training remembered just as well as well - rested animals, the scientists report tomorrow in Nature.

Further testing in the laboratory dish showed that hematopoietic stem cells from the sleep - deprived mice responded less strongly than their peers to naturally occurring chemical signals that trigger cellular migration.

When Gan imaged their brains, he found mice that had slept developed more dendrites — the tiny filaments that allow neurons to communicate — than did sleep - deprived mice.

«Sleep - deprived mice show connection with diabetes, age.»

«Will this generation, the sons of sleep - deprived mice, who are already at increased risk for metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, transmit this inherited risk, perhaps compounded by new stresses, to their offspring?»

Not exact matches

In this study, we investigated the importance of oxygen by analyzing mice with a mutation that makes their bone cells behave as if they were deprived of oxygen.»

First she deprived juveniles of vision in one eye so that the corresponding brain cells failed to make connections; once the mice reached maturity, they were put in a water maze that required them to recognize a pattern of fine lines to find a floating platform.

If one eye is deprived of sight, they rapidly rewire their brains to compensate, then beat normal one - eyed mice on tests of visual acuity.

Additionally, the levels of the enzyme that makes dopamine, and dopamine itself, are also higher in mice deprived of the prion protein.

Representative images of P - PERK (green) in B - cells (red) immunostained for insulin in young undisturbed (YC), young SD (YSD), old undisturbed (OC) and old sleep deprived (OSD) mice.

Female mice deprived of dietary zinc for a relatively short time before conception experienced fertility and pregnancy problems and had smaller, less - developed fetuses than mice that ingested zinc during the same times, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

By depriving the cancer cells of the amino acid cystine, the researchers were able to trigger a form of cell death called necrosis in mouse models of the disease.

In one group of mice, he and his colleagues dosed their mothers with a synthetic compound that simulates a mild viral infection during late pregnancy; when their offspring hit early puberty at about 6 weeks of age, the young mice were exposed to unpredictable stress, such as being restrained, deprived of water, or given electric foot shocks.

In a seminal series of experiments beginning in the 1960s, Walford studied the effect of depriving laboratory mice of calories and discovered that the less they ate — within reason — the longer they lived.

Similar to their previous findings in germ - free mice, the new results showed that the immune system failed to fully develop in bacteria - deprived fish, which also had diminished abilities to process nutrients and regenerate their intestinal linings.

March 6, 2018 — Mice fed a standard diet but deprived of food every other day developed more efficient energy metabolism and improved running endurance.

Mice that were deprived of either RbAp48 or osteocalcin exhibited poorer recall, and healthy levels of osteocalcin correlated to better memory in both young and old animals.

In another study, mice given a Lactobacillus strain cruised through a maze that normally created high anxiety and showed lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol compared to their probiotic - deprived counterparts.

Lab mice with dopamine deficiency are so deprived of motivation to eat that they starve to death even though food is available all the time (>).