Goldman treated HD mice with virus - delivered instructions to make new neurons live
longer than untreated mice (Goldman's work will be published soon in the journal «Cell Stem Cell» and we'll definitely be writing an HDBuzz article on it!).
The treated mice showed improved symptoms and lived slightly
longer than untreated mice.
Furthermore, EV71 - infected mice given Roc - A lived
longer than untreated mice and had lower levels of the virus in their spinal cord and brain.
The treated mice lived an average of 36 days
longer than untreated mice, and they were better at building nests, which reflects a combination of social behavior, cognitive performance and motor capabilities.
Mice who received the modified buckyballs had their symptoms delayed by 10 days and survived 8 to 10 days
longer than untreated mice.
Not exact matches
In 2009, US scientists discovered another effect:
Mice treated with rapamycin lived
longer than their
untreated counterparts.
Male
mice receiving the diabetes drug metformin (top, yellow) had median life spans (the age at which half the population has died) that were slightly
longer (8 percent)
than untreated male
mice (top, gray).
The study shows the pill can also increase endurance; lab
mice that took it ran more
than 40 percent
longer on a treadmill
than their
untreated peers.
Surprisingly, while neither form of chemotherapy had any effect on the growth of these seeded metastases, Angiopoietin - 2 antibody treated
mice had significantly less metastases in the lungs and in the bone and survived
longer than untreated control
mice.
The treated
mice were able to run
longer, maxing out at 15 minutes,
than untreated ill animals, which managed only 10 minutes before becoming exhausted, the researchers report.
One caveat is that actually, the
untreated mice lived a little bit shorter
than they «should» have by historical precedent, and the treated
mice only lived as
long as they «should.»