Sentences with phrase «fetal brains of mice»

The team also detected Zika virus in the fetal brains of mice, and that infection was associated with fetal weight loss.

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More work has to be done on humans as many of the results showed up in mice samples, however in studying the human brains of women who had AD scientists found significantly less male fetal tissue in their brains as in the same of women who did not have AD.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they are exposed in the womb to a maternal immune system kicked into high gear by a serious infection or other malady.

Further research showed that fetal mice bred to lack these molecules — like animals lacking MHCI, and like humans with autism or schizophrenia — undergo inadequate synaptic pruning in some parts of their brains.

Osteocalcin from the bones of pregnant mice can penetrate the placenta and help shape fetal brain development, Karsenty and colleagues reported in 2013 in Cell.

In the Cell Stem Cell study, Zhiheng Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing sidestepped the mice's natural resistance to Zika virus by injecting a Samoan isolate directly into fetal brains.

He and graduate student Yun Yung developed a way to inject one of these lipids, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), into the ventricles of a fetal mouse brain.

A 2010 study in Stem Cells and Development showed that fetal cells can migrate to the brain of a mother mouse and mature into neurons, Nelson says.

Mice given alcohol just after birth are a good model for measuring the impact on human fetal development because the brains of mice pups achieve developmental milestones after birth that are comparable to those in other mammals, including humMice given alcohol just after birth are a good model for measuring the impact on human fetal development because the brains of mice pups achieve developmental milestones after birth that are comparable to those in other mammals, including hummice pups achieve developmental milestones after birth that are comparable to those in other mammals, including humans.

Different versions of Zika virus injected directly into fetal mouse brains caused varying degrees of damage.

Researchers engineered seven versions of the Cambodian virus, each with one of the epidemic strains» mutations, and injected the viruses into fetal mouse brains.

The next step, he says, is to investigate how embryonic mouse brains with induced folds develop as they mature past the fetal stages of development and to look across species to see if the gene has similar effects in other mammals.

To test their theory, the researchers investigated what would happen to fetal mouse brains if they interfered with Trnp1 expression using synthetic sequences of genetic material that silenced the gene, a technique called RNA interference.