Sentences with phrase «laboratory mice»

Similarly, even in laboratory mice and rats, nicotine usually fails the reinforcement test, with animals choosing a placebo over nicotine.

In a breakthrough study that could improve how people learn and retain information, the researchers significantly boosted the memory and mental performance of laboratory mice through electrical stimulation.

Testing with laboratory mice have shown negative impacts on respiratory, digestive, and reproductive systems, among others.

The scientists are able to use tissue not only from laboratory mouse models, but also from human patients.

His research, carried out on laboratory mice, found that this short chain saturated fatty acid was successful in controlling inflammation, metabolic rate, and stress.

He also believes the technique will work reasonably well for studying the structure and function of proteins in most other model organisms, including laboratory mice.

Nor is it unique to people: Even laboratory mice experience a similar phase during their development.

Now scientists have moved a step closer to that possibility by wiping away a month - old memory in genetically engineered laboratory mice, while leaving other memories unchanged.

They found that one particular type of antioxidant in cocoa prevented laboratory mice from gaining excess weight and lowered their blood sugar levels.

Although the gene / cell therapy strategy was highly successful in laboratory mice, the authors stressed that additional research and testing are needed before the therapy could be tested in humans.

You will study all these procedures and acquire these skills to be used in the care of laboratory mice, companion animals, livestock, and exotic species.

Researchers have established a strong genetic component for addictive behaviors through studying animal models, including laboratory mice.

In previous research using laboratory mice with the disease, the earliest, most obvious anatomical damage has been seen in the neuromuscular junctions and in the spinal motor neurons, called the lower motor neurons.

... the breeding of purebred dogs is akin to [breeding laboratory mice]... [most breeds] are becoming progressively more inbred.

Ng TF, Kondov NO, Hayashimoto N, Uchida R, Cha Y, Beyer AI, Wong W, Pesavento PA, Suemizu H, Muench MO, Delwart E. Identification of an astrovirus commonly infecting laboratory mice in the US and Japan.

Most laboratory mice don't live long enough to go bald or grey, but a strain of animals missing an enzyme linked to cellular aging look like they could use a bit of Clairol or Rogaine.

Loss of an enzyme that modifies gene activity to promote brain regeneration may be partly responsible for age - related cognitive decline, according to new research in laboratory mice by UC San Francisco scientists, who also found that restoring the enzyme to youthful levels can improve memory in healthy adult mice.

Researchers at the University of Michigan's Mary H Weiser Food Allergy Center have developed a nasal vaccine that protects laboratory mice from allergic reactions upon exposure to peanuts, after just three monthly doses.

The findings have implications for all aspects of medical and scientific research because laboratory mice underpin studies whose results have a transformative effect on human and animal lives through vaccination and other immune - based therapies.

A team of neuroscientists has identified a protein in laboratory mice linked to impairments similar to those afflicted with Angelman syndrome (AS)-- a condition associated with symptoms that include autism, intellectual disability, and motor abnormalities.

The researchers had originally obtained this genetically diverse group of inbred laboratory mice to study locations on mouse genomes associated with influenza severity.

A breed of dwarf mouse that entirely lacks growth hormone is the present winner of the Mprize for longevity, living 60 - 70 % longer than the compeition's standard laboratory mouse species.

Co-led by David Tuveson, CSHL Professor and Director of Research for The Lustgarten Foundation, and Hans Clevers, Professor and Director of the Hubrecht Institute and President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the team developed a method to grow pancreatic tissue not only from laboratory mouse models, but also from human patient tissue, offering a path to personalized treatment approaches in the future.

MIAMI BEACH — A new drug has been shown to cure laboratory mice of tuberculosis much more quickly than standard treatments.

A study published in the October, 1999 issue of the Archives of Environmental Health found that laboratory mice exposed to various brands of disposable diapers suffered increased eye, nose, and throat irritation, including bronchoconstriction similar to that of an asthma attack.

In a breakthrough study that could improve how people learn and retain information, researchers at the Catholic University Medical School in Rome significantly boosted the memory and mental performance of laboratory mice through electrical stimulation.

Although the act covers animals like dogs and chimpanzees, it does not cover rodents like laboratory mice.

Experimental animal studies have shown that Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, consistently establishes persistent infections in a variety of immunocompetent hosts, including laboratory mice [1], white - footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)[2], [3], [4], rats [5], hamsters [6], guinea pigs [7], gerbils [8], dogs [9], and nonhuman primates, including rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)[10] and baboons (Papio spp.)[11].

But, as journalist Steve Connor reports, the reference to editing was intentional: «Scientists have used the genome - editing technology to cure adult laboratory mice of an inherited liver disease by correcting a single «letter» of the genetic alphabet which had been mutated in a vital gene involved in liver metabolism.»

The scientists then exposed humanized laboratory mice to either brain or skin extracts from two of the CJD patients.

This approach is still at the experimental stage (laboratory mice only).

To gain new insights, Luther Bartelt of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues developed a new laboratory mouse model of co-infection during malnutrition.

Introducing the change into normally brown - haired laboratory mice yields an animal with a decidedly lighter coat — not quite Norma Jeane to Marilyn Monroe, but significant nonetheless.

In contrast, normal laboratory mice included in the study only developed severe symptoms of Zika infection if they were infected soon after birth, under one week of age, before their immune systems were developed.

The study by neurological scientists at Rush University Medical Center found that feeding cinnamon to laboratory mice determined to have poor learning ability made the mice better learners.

The Jackson Laboratory mouse population is the largest collection of its kind in the world.

«Laboratory mice live in a lab under ideal, germ - free conditions,» said Obin, who is also an associate professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

The researchers suppressed the interferon in specialized laboratory mice that also lack the ability to produce T cells or B cells.

Still, Zuker was adamant: Knock out either of the two subunits on the protein receptor he identified and laboratory mice lose all sense of sweet, regardless of which compounds they're given.

But according to a report published today in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a strain of laboratory mice dubbed MRL mice succeeded in regenerating heart tissue without the aid of drugs or other treatments.

Tests underway on laboratory mice at MD Anderson should be completed by early 2016, and if they are successful, Rempe said, human testing will follow.

Previous research had shown that female laboratory mice often return to a place where they have come across cage bedding soiled by males.

Their work with laboratory mice also provides a greater understanding of how this gene impacts Menkes disease as scientists search for a treatment.

The researchers investigated how CD8 + T cells in laboratory mice respond to infections.

In a seminal series of experiments beginning in the 1960s, Walford studied the effect of depriving laboratory mice of calories and discovered that the less they ate — within reason — the longer they lived.

For the new study, the investigators employed male laboratory mice bioengineered in several respects to enable the use of advanced technologies to remotely excite, suppress and monitor activity in the dopamine - secreting nerve cells from the mice's VTA.

Next, the scientists cloned the gene from the prairie vole's vasopressin receptor and implanted it in an embryo of the less sociable laboratory mouse.

When she injected the venom into the hind paws of regular laboratory mice, the mice furiously licked the site for several minutes.

Interestingly, conventional laboratory mice previously infected with this virus died, but did not develop symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.