Not exact matches
A small cluster of stem cells in the brain seems to help
mice stay
young, and
injecting extra stem cells helps them live longer.
Additionally, the researchers report online today in Cell, old
mice injected with this protein for 30 days developed
younger, stronger heart tissue.
Joseph Castellano at Stanford University in California and his colleagues discovered this by collecting blood from people at three different life stages — babies,
young people around the age of 22, and older people around the age of 66 — and
injecting the plasma component into
mice that were the equivalent of around 50 years old in human years.
Three
mice injected with the new synthetic EPO showed bursts in the numbers of
young red blood cells that rivaled levels in those
injected with Procrit, a commercial EPO.
When the researchers
injected the protein into the heart muscle of old
mice, it became «
younger» — thinner and better able to pump blood.
Changes in muscle repair with aging were determined by
injecting the old
mice and
young mice (neither group exercised) with snake venom commonly used to induce muscle injury in rodent studies.
Plasma from old
mice didn't have a strong effect when
injected into
young mice genetically engineered to lack VCAM1 in certain blood - brain barrier cells.
It was one of the most mind - bending scientific reports in 2014:
Injecting old
mice with the plasma portion of blood from
young mice seemed to improve the elderly rodents» memory and ability to learn.
To try to exploit this phenomenon as a potential treatment, Datta
injected large amounts of the peptides into
young female
mice of a strain prone to succumb to SLE.
Young said Celltex did a study in which it
injected lab
mice with 73 times the normal dose of 200 million cells that Celltex gives its clients, and none of the
mice died, developed toxic organs or grew tumors.
We will
inject these
mice with either oxidized proteins, bacterial components, or normal saline in a single injection when they are
young.