Sentences with phrase «few normal animals»

Not exact matches

In the few cases when the injured animals do not symmetrize — only about 15 percent of the injured animals they studied — the unsymmetrical ephyra also can not develop into normal adult jellyfish, called medusa.

By a few weeks of age, before falling sick, these animals had about half the normal number of so - called memory T cells.

When they exposed these mice to the cold, the animals developed far fewer beige fat cells than did normal animals, suggesting that macrophages were key to browning of white fat.

Animals on calorie - restricted diets typically eat at least 25 percent fewer calories than normal.

Earlier studies had suggested that animals — including fruit flies, dogs and mice — live longer when they ate about 25 percent fewer calories than normal.

Gordon and his team found several years ago that genetically obese mice (the animals lacked the ability to make leptin, a hormone that limits appetite) had 50 percent fewer Bacteroidetes bacteria and 50 percent more Firmicutes bacteria than normal mice did.