Sentences with phrase «germ free animals»
A nearby building hosts a shared germ free animal facility.
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Gordon's team is also looking at the ecological dynamics that take place when combinations of normal intestinal bacteria are introduced into germ - free animals.
As part of the study, they transplanted the intestinal microbiome from sick animals into the intestines of germ - free mice.
Studies of germ - free rodents and other animals on gut - disrupting antibiotics show that changing microbial communities can impair memory and cause anxiety - like behaviours.
Germ - free mice that received microbiota from animals with functional ILC3s could fight off the bacteria.
When the team transferred microbiota from a mouse with such dysfunctional ILC3s into a completely germ - free mouse, the recipient animal was highly susceptible to infections when later exposed to harmful bacteria.
E. coli organisms harbouring fragments of DNA from the «donor organism» were then fed to germ - free mice, which are animals that are raised in special environments (isolators) that prevent the entry of any bacteria.
In raising the first germ - free zebrafish, the team has produced «extremely powerful tools for examining the influence of beneficial bacteria on animal development,» says microbiologist Margaret McFall - Hgai of Kewalo Marine Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The microbiome did modulate the immune system: the animals grown in germ - free conditions expressed complement genes at lower levels in the skin than control animals.
''... experiments employed germ - free animals indicate that host microbiota can regulate formation of amyloid plaques in the brain...»
Cleans and maintains cages, kennels, lifestyle rooms, quarantine area or isolation unit of the shelter, in such a manner as to provide a germ - free, odorless and low stress environment for the animals.