Sentences with phrase «female mice test»

In other labs, some intriguing differences between male and female mice test subjects have already begun to emerge.

Not exact matches

Fertility tests of the mice in adulthood showed that those whose mothers had been fed a high - fat diet while breastfeeding had decreased litter size, longer duration from mating to date of birth and impaired pregnancy rate in both female and male mice.

To test a nonpermanent approach, the team gave normal female mice the MIS protein as a twice - daily shot.

To test whether such effects could be transmitted to the next generation, Nestler took another group of bullied mice and bred them with females, but kept them from ever meeting their offspring.

Further, two female offspring from each of these litters were mated with unexposed male mice and tested for maternal behavior using the same assays used to test their mothers.

Both male and female mice whose mPOA neurotensin neurons were artificially driven this way showed a preference in standard tests for moving closer to mice of the opposite sex.

To test whether these changes could lead to pre-term birth, the researchers carefully monitored females whose amniotic sacs had been injected with MVs at day 14.5 of pregnancy (a full - term mouse pregnancy lasts 19 days).

Fertility tests of the mice in adulthood showed that those whose mothers had been fed a high - fat diet while breastfeeding had decreased litter size, longer duration from mating to date of birth and impaired pregnancy rate in both female and male mice.

To test whether sex hormones could account for these differences, the researchers removed the ovaries from female mice and the testes from male mice.

The researchers purified 312 of the proteins, injected them individually into female mice, waited for the mice to develop antibodies against the proteins, and then tested the offspring of the injected mice for their susceptibility to the bugs.

We tested this hypothesis with 3 — 6 - month - old male and female wild - type mice.

The present study was aimed at identifying behavioral tests that are most sensitive to the emergence of behavioral / neurological deficits in male and female SOD1 G93A mice (SOD - 1) compared to wild - type (WT) controls.

In the study, researchers removed the ovaries of female mice to mimic the effects of post-menopausal women before implanting estrogen - receptor positive cancer tumors into the test subjects.

Using a male Micro-USB to female USB adapter we tested the mouse and keyboard support.