Sentences with phrase «infected mouse lung»

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Despite the presumed virulence of the strain — experiments with mouse lungs showed it produces 1000 times more bacteria in infected cells than do standard varieties — Valway says the number of TB cases that developed were kept in line with other typical outbreaks, which «shows that doing good contact investigations is important and preventative therapy works.»

When the researchers examined mice with disrupted IL - 27 function, they found that they were more likely than normal mice likely to die when infected with the virus, and that they died as a consequence of rampant lung inflammation.

When given to infected mice, LCA60 dramatically reduced the amount of the MERS virus in the lungs within days.

However, Feske and his colleagues found that calcium signals also are required for the development of iTreg cells and that their numbers are strongly reduced in the lungs of the infected STIM1 - deficient mice.

«This was associated with an unexpected accumulation of T - cells in the lungs of infected mice that lack STIM1.»

In addition, low levels of PD1 in the lungs of influenza - virus - infected mice were associated with severe infection and highly pathogenic viruses, such as H5N1.

When infected with TB, mice lacking Smurf1 had higher bacterial loads, increased lung inflammation, and accelerated mortality compared to mice with normal Smurf1 activity, Dr. Shiloh said.

Mice infected with a resistant strain of tuberculosis that were treated with both SMARt - 420 and ethionamide also showed a significantly reduced bacterial load in their lungs three weeks after infection compared to controls, the authors report.

the team broke the virus down and inserted genes from the killer strain, one at a time, into a related but benign bird influenza virus that normally infects only the lungs of mice.

Similar observations were noted at the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in the UK, where different morphotypes were observed from lung samples in mice infected with Bps K96243.

The mice in both groups were then infected with liver, lung, or skin cancer through various methods.