Sentences with phrase «in naked mole rats»

But that doesn't happen in naked mole rats.

In mice, the balance tips in favour of the acid signal making it to the brain — but in naked mole rats the balance tips the other way and the pain signal dissipates.

In both naked mole rats and mice, acid activated the channels.

The researchers also found that contact inhibition in naked mole rats is controlled by two genes, p16 and p27, while in humans it is primarily controlled by p27.

«Factor in naked mole rat's cells enhances protein integrity.»

Not exact matches

It's almost impossible to culture naked mole rat cells in the lab, which made Andrei Seluanov and Vera Gorbunova from Rochester University, New York, wonder if this might be linked to their ability to resist cancer.

As we said about naked mole rats in our gallery of weird lab animals, you've got to be tough and talented if you're this ugly.

The researchers doused nociceptors from naked mole rats and mice in acid, and found the strength of the pain signal passing through the NaV1.7 channels dropped by 42 per cent in mice, but by 63 per cent in the mole rats.

In the world of animal models, naked mole rats are the supermodels.

In the mammal world, naked mole rats are the longest - living rodents.

Claustrophobic cells Three years ago, Gorbunova was involved in another study that described the unusual way in which the cells of the naked mole rat behave in the lab.

Rochelle Buffenstein, a physiologist who is now at the University of Texas Health Science Center, began studying naked mole rats in 1980 and took a colony with her when she moved from South Africa to the United States in 1997.

Unlike the naked mole - rat, which lives in colonies in Eastern Africa, the blind mole - rat is a solitary rodent found in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Scientists at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, have found another secret of longevity in the tissues of the longest - lived rodent, the naked mole rat.

«Further research into the detailed mechanisms underlying ASIS in naked mole - rats may shed new light on cancer resistance in the mole - rats and contribute to the generation of non-tumorigenic human - iPSCs, enabling safer cell - based therapeutics,» said Kyoko Miura, an assistant professor at Hokkaido University.

That's not so special: social ants and bees have worker and soldier castes, and in colonies of the adorable naked mole rats different individuals have different jobs too.

«While naked moles - rats are extreme in many aspects of their biology, we predicted that we would see similar molecular adaptations in the HAS2 gene in other mole - rats and subterranean mammals, yet they remain unique even among other mole - rats within the family.»

They found that while all African mole rats share some mutations in the HAS2 gene, the naked mole - rat has a unique combination.

When they compared the amino acid sequence of naked mole rat protein, the researchers found that three of these protein building blocks were different from the rat version and one was also different from the same protein in other mole rats.

The naked mole rat version of TrkA failed to activate the ion channel as efficiently as the rat version of TrkA, Lewin and his colleagues reveal today in Cell Reports.

In 2008, the studies led to the finding that naked mole rats didn't feel pain when they came into contact with acid and didn't get more sensitive to heat or touch when injured, like we and other mammals do.

Earlier this year, a research team from the University of Rochester in New York identified a chemical in African naked mole rats that seems to protect them against developing cancer.

So the Zambian mole rats live in a moderately tough environment, but not as tough as the naked mole rats.

Mole rats vary widely in how social they are, from the eusocial naked mole rats to the solitary small dune mole Mole rats vary widely in how social they are, from the eusocial naked mole rats to the solitary small dune mole mole rats to the solitary small dune mole mole rat.

Ewan Smith and colleagues at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany, doused nociceptors from naked mole rats and mice in acid, and found the strength of the pain signal passing through the NaV1.7 channels dropped significantly more in the mole rats.

The Zambian mole rat is related to the famous naked mole rat, one of only two mammals to live in «eusocial» colonies: like honeybees and termites, a single queen does all the breeding and the others work to maintain the colony.

I'm not saying we must test this humans but testing faster ECM turnover rates in older adult mice, cat's, dogs, pigs, naked mole rats, apes and other close - related mammals to human to see how bad it gets, and if it's possible to revert to pre-adolescence or, at the latest, very - early adulthood levels.

Social and hormonal triggers of neural plasticity in naked mole - rats.

Androgen receptor distribution in the social decision - making network of eusocial naked mole - rats.

In Ten Million Aliens, Simon Barnes describes many unusual creatures, one of which is the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber).

The naked mole rat is also one of only two mammal species that are «eusocial» — meaning they live in a colony like ants, termites or bees (the other species being the Damaraland mole rat).

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A bouncy music score and amusing sound effects enhance this delightful animated presentation of Mo Willems» picture book, in which Wilbur, a naked mole rat, scandalizes his peers by wearing clothes.

The City of San Antonio Animal Care Services does not take in stray or owner surrender wildlife (such as opossums, naked mole rats, etc.).

Given it depicts the game protagonist valiantly and triumphantly striking down all enemies in his path and not, say... getting felled by a naked mole rat dropping on his head, I think there's case to file a false advertising complaint with the Better Business Bureau over this trailer.

When Thomas Park, an expert on naked mole - rats, placed the first animal in a chamber containing only 5 percent oxygen, the mood, he said, was «tense.»

In the ever beautifully bizarre world of nature's strangest mammal, the naked - mole rat can live for nearly 20 minutes without oxygen.