Sentences with phrase «lab mice exposed»

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.

Not exact matches

About a third of mice exposed to severe stress (in the form of aggressive attacks by other rodents) seem to breeze through these assaults without developing the social withdrawal, listlessness or other depression and traumalike symptoms displayed by most of their rodent lab - mates.

Chesser says some of his group's studies of mice exposed to radioactivity around Chernobyl hint at hormesis: Small exposures over 10 to 45 days, they found, appeared to temper damage from an acute radiation dose delivered in the lab later.

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.

The study's lead author, Toni - Lee Sterley, a postdoctoral associate in Bains» lab said, «What was remarkable was that CRH neurons from the partners, who were not themselves exposed to an actual stress, showed changes that were identical to those we measured in the stressed mice.»

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

Rodriguez's team exposed olfactory mouse neurons in the lab to disease - causing bacteria and the urine of sick mice.

In the lab, male and female mice are kept in separate cages, so females are chronically exposed to female pheromones in their own urine and that of their cage - mates.

A large number of lab studies using rats and mice exposed to high doses of BPA failed to show measurable effects on key aspects of reproductive development, function and behaviour.

To see whether they could make an animal associate fear with a previously neutral setting, Tonegawa's lab group first exposed mice to one of four unique cages.

To test the chemicals» impact on metabolism and activity, Rosenfeld's lab exposed mice to BPA and EE in the womb and during weaning through the mother's diet.

A striking example of this is MPP +, a well - established neurotoxin that specifically attacks the SNc dopaminergic neurons in lab mice, monkeys — and in humans: MPP +'s parent compound, MPTP, has caused numerous cases of Parkinson's - like syndrome in young people exposed to it in underground drug labs, or via contaminated street drugs.1