Sentences with phrase «mice given the compound»

Tumors grew in all the mice, but the tumors in mice given the compound were about half the size of those in mice without the compound.

Surprisingly, an even lower percentage — only 20 percent — of the mice given both compounds developed cancer.

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In a final experiment, the group gave the animals a compound that prevented LPA from binding to its receptor on mouse brain cells, right before they were injected with hydrocephalus - inducing LPA.

When the researchers implanted the skin of the pregnant mice with time - release capsules containing either a compound that inhibits IDO or a control substance, only one group rejected fetuses: mice that had been given the inhibitor and were carrying genetically foreign fetuses.

They found no difference in the number of plaques or the total amount of amyloid beta between the mice that received the compound and those given just saltwater.

Levels of APOE protein dropped by about half in mice given the APOE compound as compared with those that received the placebo oligo or saltwater.

Then they gave the mice a compound called (S)-4-carboxyphenylglycine (S -4-CPG), a placebo or nothing at all.

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.

In one group of mice, he and his colleagues dosed their mothers with a synthetic compound that simulates a mild viral infection during late pregnancy; when their offspring hit early puberty at about 6 weeks of age, the young mice were exposed to unpredictable stress, such as being restrained, deprived of water, or given electric foot shocks.

Moreover, normal mice, ordinarily killed or disabled by an ischemic stroke, were given a shot of a compound that blocks the action of IL - 21.

The CAM and zebrafish in vivo assays and the ex vivo mouse aortic ring assay clearly identify kahweol as a new anti-angiogenic compound, but gives no information on which specific steps of angiogenesis are targeted by this compound.

In one set of experiments, when the scientists boosted insulin resistance by giving mice a compound that cuts insulin signaling, they saw increased expression of several markers of aging in beta cells.

However, to be effective, the VTS - 270 compound has to be given for the life of the mouse.

Giving obese mice a compound in green tea slowed their weight gain, according to Penn State scientists.

Mice which had ingested epicatechin, a compound found in dark chocolate, suffered significantly less brain damage after undergoing induced stroke than mice which had not been given this compoMice which had ingested epicatechin, a compound found in dark chocolate, suffered significantly less brain damage after undergoing induced stroke than mice which had not been given this compomice which had not been given this compound.

In the animal study, researchers divided a group of 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups: a control group, a group fed the grape compounds and a group given sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug that an earlier study showed decreased the incidence of tumors.