Sentences with phrase «lab mice»

Researchers testing pain response in lab mice noticed something curious: The mice didn't seem to feel pain when they were handled by male researchers.

Similar versions of the new vaccine protected 100 percent of lab mice in early tests.

The potential threats to people are unknown, with new research on lab mice linking them to obesity.

To test the theory, he and his colleagues analyzed bacteria in fecal samples from lab mice kept in normal 12 - hour cycles of light and darkness.

The researchers then used lab mice to determine how the decrease in natural intestinal flora might be worsening the disease.

Animal studies have shown us multiple times that melatonin supplementation increases the longevity of lab mice by delaying the aging of their brain cells and reducing the amount of stored fat.

Last year, as a first step in defining a «normal» lab mouse microbiome, they analyzed feces from mice from two major vendors.

The humble lab mouse shoulders much of the blame.

Lab mice get a much lower part of their calories from carbohydrates than humans do, she points out.

The maximum life span of a typical lab mouse is 39 months, corresponding to 110 years in humans.

The process saw injured lab mice recover from a serious leg injury in just over three weeks of treatment.

Her blue eyes are so red she looks like a white lab mouse, worn and wary from too many experiments.

This research was exercised on four groups of lab mice, out of which some were obese and some were lean.

The company has created an antibody that neutralizes a primary viral protein, and it works in lab mice with MS. «We have terrific effects,» Perron says.

But in a 2012 study, they found that when they injected synthetic amyloids into lab mice bred to have an MS - like brain inflammation, the mice got better and were able to walk again.

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.

Rehermann and her colleagues then exposed offspring of the microbe - receiving lab mice to a flu virus and to conditions that would normally cause colon cancer.

Although progress toward harnessing the immune system to attack tumors has been «enormous,» he said, his lab and many others are seeing in more and more studies — in lab mice as well as patients — that «immuno - oncology» will not be as simple as stimulating T cells to attack tumors.

Take lab mice for example.

For decades, wildlife documentaries have promoted the idea that Komodo dragons owe their success as predators to toxic bacteria in their saliva — a claim bolstered by a 2002 study reporting deaths among lab mice injected with their saliva.

The published paper, in Nature Biotechnology, fills in details about how successfully the human organoid integrated into the mouse brain and addresses one of those concerns: At least in the tests the scientists ran, the mice with human brain organoids seemed no different, and no smarter, than standard lab mice.

To find out, Einstein's George Karagiannis spent nearly three years experimenting with lab mice whose genetic mutations make them spontaneously develop breast cancer, as well as mice given human breast tumors.

In the new work, published June 10 in the journal Scientific Reports, Zhao, Reid and colleagues used a highly sensitive probe to measure electrical fields in the corneas of isolated eyes from three different lab mouse models with different types of diabetes: genetic, drug - induced and in mice fed a high - fat diet.

Insight into how this venom overwhelms lab mice could lead to an antidote for people who suffer excruciatingly painful, reportedly even fatal, centipede bites, an international research team reports the week...

These critters performed better than normal lab mice in some of the same tests that Hepler's team used to evaluate the RGS14 - deleted mice.

A study was made where researchers were feeding lab mice trans - fat acids and the results showed that the mice had lowered levels of testosterone, and not only that, they had abnormal sperm morphology.

And Washington State University researchers have learned that alcohol administered to cancerous lab mice causes loss of body fat but not protein.

The Australian researchers gave middle - aged lab mice aged 20 weeks food with a glycaemic index of 27 for the rest of their life.

Research: The drug was shown to extend the life of lab mice after they had been genetically manipulated and fattened up so that they would get clogged arteries.

If aging is a disease, in Villeda's lab it's almost a contagious one: He can artificially spread aging from old lab mice to young ones.

It's just like the classic behavioral conditioning «Skinner Box» experiments that train lab mice to press a lever to get a food pellet whenever a light comes on.

Another study published in 1999 by Anderson Laboratories found that lab mice exposed to various brands of disposable diapers experienced asthma - like symptoms, as well as eye, nose and throat irritation.

«We've little mini lab mice, our kids, who are going into this huge untested experiment,» Astorino said, during an interview with public radio and television in April..

While lab mice can live about 2 years, many of the mice engineered to overproduce this protein, called Klotho, have celebrated third birthdays.

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.

Now, immunologists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, have contaminated lab mice in a different way: by giving them gut bacteria from wild mice.

The findings could usher in lab mice equipped with different kinds of bacteria to reflect real - world conditions.

Semi-starved lab mice will not only live about 25 percent longer but will run a maze at three years with the facility of a well - fed mouse of six months.

Two compounds already approved for use in humans increased the survival of lab mice even after they were exposed to radiation

Pregnant female lab mice received the brew in their drinking water at four concentrations, from 400 parts per million (ppm) down to less than 0.04 ppm — equivalent to one drop of pesticide in 500 bathtubs of water, Porter says.

(Like lab mice, cancer cells make popular experimental models because they come in standardized lab strains.

Coffin described how lab workers there had transplanted human prostate tumor cells into an immune - deficient lab mouse, a common procedure for procuring a colony of cells, or a human cell line, for further study.

Research confirmed their findings on lab mice engineered not to produce TRPA1.

For instance, a common lab mouse lives 2.5 years, on average, but a naked mole rat lives 25.

As a result, lab mice thrived.

Roth put ordinary lab mice in a chamber filled with 80 parts per million of hydrogen sulfide.

The physiologist and her team at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing were testing how a certain drug affects bone density, and they found that treated lab mice lost bone compared with controls.

Earlier this year, a team led by immuno logist David Masopust of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, tried cohousing lab mice with mice purchased from pet stores.