Sentences with phrase «mice lose the capacity»

This is because older mice lose the capacity to excrete adequate levels of two hormones: one that stimulates egg follicles to grow and mature and another that causes the ripened egg to be released from the ovary into the reproductive tract.

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Newborn mice have shown the capacity for heart regeneration, but it is rapidly lost by seven days after birth.

The mice developed arrhythmias as the heart's chambers lost the capacity to beat in time.

Südhof used genetic engineering to «knock - out» the synaptotagmin gene in mice, with the result that synapses from the forebrains of mice that lacked synaptotagmin lost their capacity for fast calcium - triggered release of neurotransmitter, thus confirming the importance of synaptotagmin in vivo.