Sentences with phrase «housed lab mice»
Concerned that the immune systems of clean mice might not be good proxies for the human immune system — no human is brought up in such clean conditions and fed such clean food — they housed lab mice with mice from a pet store.
http://www.sciencemag.org/ Not exact matches
Barbara Rehermann and Stephan Rosshart first collected 800 wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) in the Washington, D.C., metro area, and compared their DNA and gut bacteria both with a lab mouse strain and with wild mice from all over the world.
With the move to India, Colleen left the lab bench so that she could coordinate the development of facilities at inStem; this included new laboratory space and an animal facility housing mice, rats, fish, and frogs.
Sitting on Cullen's lab bench is a plastic box that houses a pair of mice.
Spearheaded by co-lead authors Sinisa Hrvatin, a postdoctoral fellow in the Greenberg lab, Daniel Hochbaum, a postdoctoral fellow in the Sabatini lab and M. Aurel Nagy, an MD - PhD student in the Greenberg lab, the researchers first housed mice in complete darkness to quiet the visual cortex, the area of the brain that controls vision.
A study by Stephen Abolins, Mark Viney and colleagues of the immune ecology of wild house mice — the same species as the lab mouse — shows that their immune state is promoted by individuals» body condition and constrained by their age.
Chong Wee Liew, Ph.D., lead author and a postdoctoral researcher in the Kulkarni lab, first examined the expression of the tribbles protein in pancreatic islets (which house beta cells and other hormone - producing cells) in both humans and mice.
Brain research raises the possibility of a very exotic future (this article assumes that such animals wouldn't be vicious or use their new - found smarts to drive other species to extinction) «Liberated» mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions Methane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowering them.