They destroyed the T cells in 12 mice, five of which received marrow cells
from normal mice while seven received marrow from mice with a defective Fas - ligand gene.
Not exact matches
Three groups of middle - aged
mice (about a year old) were studied: one group ate a
normal diet, in which fewer than 30 percent of calories came
from fat,
while two others were fed high - calorie diets in which 60 percent of the calories came
from fat.
Faustman got her idea by chance
while transplanting islets, the pancreatic bodies that contain beta cells,
from normal mice into others that had lost theirs to type 1, or juvenile, diabetes.
Left: The gut of a
mouse that received a transplant of microbes
from the gut of four - day - old
normal mice, and then was exposed to Salmonella,
while the other received a transplant of the four - day - old
mouse microbes along with added Clostridia bacteria, before being exposed to Salmonella.
* Oddly enough, however, the experiments with fresh pancreatic islets and fat cells taken
from the
mice suggested that the positive effects of uncarboxylated osteocalcin on insulin only occurred at concentrations extremely low compared to those of undercarboxylated osteocalcin normally present in
mice,
while the effects on adiponectin and energy expenditure only occurred at
normal to high concentrations.