Sentences with phrase «diabetes in a mouse model of the disease»

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Most importantly, these cells protected mice from developing diabetes in a model of disease, having the critical ability to produce insulin in response to changes in glucose levels.

«We think that for the first time, we have a mouse model of anorexia that closely resembles the conditions leading up to the disease in humans,» said study leader Lori Zeltser, PhD, associate professor of pathology & cell biology and a researcher in the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center.

The two labs are now collaborating on further studies of the new enzymes — and the potential benefits of inhibiting them — in mouse models of diabetes, inflammation and autoimmune disease.

Using red blood cells modified to carry disease - specific antigens, a team of scientists from Whitehead Institute and Boston Children's Hospital have prevented and alleviated two autoimmune diseases — multiple sclerosis (MS) and type 1 diabetes — in early stage mouse models.

This proposed role for GM1 (and indirectly GD1a) provides a rationale for its potency in suppressing diabetes in NOD mice (10) and disease onset in other animal models of autoimmunity.