Sentences with phrase «human and mouse eyes»

Anatomical examination of human and mouse eyes was used to determine the effect of the laser on the sensitive light - detecting retina.

Not exact matches

The largest effect was on the number of times the mice went in and out of a sleep phase called paradoxical sleep, which resembles REM (rapid eye movement) sleep in humans, when dreams occur and memories are strengthened.

Mice and humans are so closely related that it seemed likely we have the same basic collection of ipRGCs in our eyes, carrying out the same tasks.

When we took the mouse version of this gene — the same gene we find in the human — and put it in the fly and tweaked it, we induced fly eye tissue.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

To precisely map how glucose and lactate move around in the eye, Hurley and colleagues grew human RPE in a lab dish and studied its biochemistry along with that of isolated mouse retinas.

Findings made in animal models do not always translate to patients, but it appears that this important eye vessel functions very similarly in mice and humans.

The lens in the human eye is very different from those in mice or dogs, and neither study explains how the steroids work on cataracts.

Stem cells collected from human corneas restore transparency and don't trigger a rejection response when injected into eyes that are scarred and hazy, according to experiments conducted in mice by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Importantly, 25 of the 115 transcripts, shared by EFTF - expressing pluripotent cells and the EF, encode for 15 genes that are both expressed in retinal stem / progenitor cells and required for normal eye formation in frogs, fish, mice, or humans (Figure 1C; Table S1).

To Wright, the signals in both humans and mice mean that there's more similarity between humans and animals than might meet the eye.

We have found that expression of C3 in normal mouse eyes leads to pathology similar to AMD in humans, including the creation of anaphylatoxins and the MAC.

Employs mouse models of human eye disease to study gene function and mechanisms underlying disease pathology.

The more than $ 30 million effort to sequence Tasha «opened everybody's eyes to just how similar the basic genome structure was for dogs and humans — much more so than for the human and laboratory mouse,» Breen says.

For Architects for Animals, twelve firms donated brilliant designs that address the functional and social needs of street cats — incorporating playful elements, such as built - in feeding bowls, string toys, a «trophy» gallery of mice or a live fish bowl — while all the while still appealing to the human eye.