Sentences with phrase «giving knockout mice»

There is a new contender in the field of gene discovery, and it's giving knockout mice a run for their money.

Not exact matches

Days later, when these knockout mice were given the same tasks, the animals regained their expertise faster and more fully than ordinary mice with strokes.

Some of these, based on previous studies of knockout mice, seem to play a role in cognition and behavior, including fear responses and the ability to learn new behaviors when given food rewards.

BETHESDA, Md., Wed., Oct. 5, 2005 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced contracts that will give researchers unprecedented access to two private collections of knockout mice, providing valuable models for the study of human disease and laying the groundwork for a public, genome - wide library of knockout mice.

If the GH knockout Mice lived longer when being given exogenous GH would that be evidence of another, poorly understood receptor for GH?

Given this, I assume it would have to mean those max lifespan extending interventions you mentioned that work in normal mice (CR, Met Restriction, GH Knockout, IGF - 1 and Insulin Signalling Manipulation) reduce ALL major forms of fatal aging damage?

DJ - 1 knockout mice were generated and originally characterized by Chandran and colleagues (2008) and given to us after having been backcrossed at least two generations into C57BL / 6J.