Sentences with phrase «feeding lab mice»

A study was made where researchers were feeding lab mice trans - fat acids and the results showed that the mice had lowered levels of testosterone, and not only that, they had abnormal sperm morphology.

The maximum life span of a normally fed lab mouse is a little more than three years.

Not exact matches

In the new work, published June 10 in the journal Scientific Reports, Zhao, Reid and colleagues used a highly sensitive probe to measure electrical fields in the corneas of isolated eyes from three different lab mouse models with different types of diabetes: genetic, drug - induced and in mice fed a high - fat diet.

To mimic this obesogenic environment, the teams led by Mara Dierssen at CRG and Rafael Maldonado at UPF offered mice the option of a high - fat «cafeteria» diet or a mixture of chopped - up commercial chocolate bars alongside their regular lab chow, before carrying out a detailed analysis of the animals» activity and feeding behaviour.

Concerned that the immune systems of clean mice might not be good proxies for the human immune system — no human is brought up in such clean conditions and fed such clean food — they housed lab mice with mice from a pet store.

Semi-starved lab mice will not only live about 25 percent longer but will run a maze at three years with the facility of a well - fed mouse of six months.

First authorYun Sok Lee, PhD, a project scientist in Olefsky's lab, and colleagues fed mice a high - fat diet.

«When we feed mice high fat foods, which is like going to McDonalds every day, they become obese and lose most of their brown fat,» said study lead author Kosaku Shinoda, a postdoc in Kajimura's lab.

Indeed, lab studies have shown that as many as 90 % of ticks feeding on an infected mouse pick up the bug, an «extremely high number,» says disease ecologist Dustin Brisson of the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2007, he and Webster caught live ticks and allowed them to feed on mice in the lab.

Bernard and her co-author Debrup Chakraborty, a postdoctoral student in her lab, studied mice that were fed a high - fat diet and discovered that this higher - risk layer of fat produced larger amounts of the fibroblast growth factor - 2, or FGF2, protein when compared to the subcutaneous fat.

His lab has done studies in rats, where they compared mice fed a standard diet (rat chow) with mice fed a fattening diet, for 7 days.