Sentences with phrase «mice on a low protein diet»

Using a novel method — design - based stereology — which enabled researchers to estimate the volume of the liver and the total numbers and sizes of its cells in 3D, it was found that the liver of mice on a low protein diet had decreased by 65 %.

Extrapolating the tumor growth curves, it looks like the mice in experiment (B) would be sacrificed 5 weeks after implantation on the high protein diet, or 8 weeks after implantation on the low protein diet; in experiment (G), mice on the high protein diet would be sacrificed about 9 weeks after implantation, while mice on low protein diets would have been sacrificed about 11 weeks after implantation.

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Intriguingly, in the new study, the brains of mice modeling autism that were fed the high - glycemic index diet had drastically less doublecortin, a protein indicator of newly developing neurons, compared to predisposed mice on the low - glycemic index diet.

A skinny mouse (left) ate lots of protein and few carbs, but it wasn't as healthy or long - lived as its counterpart on a low - protein / high - carb diet.

The amount of beta - amyloid proteins, which make up the characteristic Alzheimer's plaques, was also much lower in the brains of the mice on the low - calorie diet.

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The mice that ate a high - carbohydrate, low - protein diet lived about 50 per cent longer than those on the low - carb diet.»

Mouse studies confirmed the effect of high protein intake and GHR - IGF - 1 signaling on the incidence and progression of breast and melanoma tumors, but also the detrimental effects of a low protein diet in the very old.

While young mice (18 weeks, equivalent to young adults) lost only a few percent of body weight on the starvation low protein diets, elderly mice (2 years old) wasted away on low protein diets.

choice of cell quantity: while 10 of 10 mice on the high - protein diet developed tumors during the experiment, only 9 of 10 mice on the low - protein diet did.

The reason the low protein diets were sometimes 4 % and sometimes 7 % was because mice will often lose weight on 4 % protein diets due to starvation (in the paper's experiments on BALB / c mice, «the mice had to be switched from a 4 % to a 7 % kcal from protein diet within the first week in order to prevent weight loss.»).

To actually support the NHANES survey, the researchers should have maintained the mice on low or high protein diets for several years, and seen which group lived longer.

In a study done by scientists at Canada's British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, it was found that mice fed on a high - protein, low - carbohydrate diet had slower tumour cell growth than those fed a typical Western diet high in carbohydrates.