Sentences with phrase «growth than normal mice»

To their surprise, they found that these Th17 - deficient mice experienced far more aggressive cancer growth than normal mice — with the cancer completely smothering the lungs within 16 days.

Not exact matches

By 2003 other scientists had genetically manipulated mice to be relatively insensitive to either insulin or insulin - like growth factor; in both cases, the genetically engineered mice lived significantly longer than normal mice.

Longo also knew of research by molecular biologist John Kopchick at Ohio University, which showed that mice with a mutation in their growth hormone receptor gene lived 40 percent longer than normal mice — the equivalent of an average American living to age 110.

Experiments on mice and on heart cells obtained from infants born with congenital heart disease suggest that neuregulin 1, a human growth factor, can put infant heart cells on a path that mimics normal growth rather than stalling out.

One, called CISH, shuts down the receptor to a key growth hormone; mice that overproduce the receptor are smaller and grow more slowly than normal.

He notes, however, that other attempts to stimulate bone growth in mice by manipulating cell signaling proteins have produced denser than normal bones — and he's surprised that Helms's team didn't see the same.

As seen through a microscope, the leg bone of a normal mouse (left) makes considerably less new bone than a mouse that produces high levels of a signaling protein, WNT7B, that stimulates new bone growth (shown in pink on the right).

from mprize.org «Dwarf mice... lack growth hormone (GH), prolactin (PRL), and thyroid - stimulating hormone (TSH), (and) live much longer than their normal siblings, and exhibit many symptoms of delayed aging.»