They found that levels of an enzyme involved in ketone metabolism, known as BDH1, were twice as high in
mice with both early stage and complete heart failure compared to normal animals.
Not exact matches
When his team looked at gene expression changes in the
mice, then applied them to humans
with early stage cancer, the results revealed a breakdown of which patients have a high or low chance of survival.
But little is known about the
early developmental
stages of human gametes — owing to the sensitivity of working
with human tissue — and most work in this area has been conducted using
mice.
In a final set of experiments, the researchers used necrostatin - 1 to treat
mice with axonal damage and hind leg weakness, a telltale sign of axonal demise similar to the muscle weakness that occurs in the
early stages of ALS in humans.
But in APOE4 or APOE3
mice with earlier -
stage AD, the amount of soluble amyloid - beta actually increased.
After 11 weeks, the
mice fed
with artificial sweeteners showed an unusually high spike in blood glucose levels when given a glucose meal, a condition called glucose intolerance that is seen as an
early stage in the development of diabetes.
LaDu, working
with Leon Tai, research assistant professor in anatomy and cell biology, and their coworkersgave bexarotene to
mice carrying APOE4 or APOE3 for seven days during the
early, intermediate, or late
stages of AD.
The drug, bexarotene, was found to reduce levels of the neurotoxic protein amyloid - beta in experimental
mice with late -
stage Alzheimer's but to increase levels during
early stages of disease.
His lab is now investigating what happens in the
earliest stages of the development of
mice with the autism - related Shank3 mutation, and whether any of those effects can be reversed either during development or later in life.
Scientists at Georgia State University (GSU)
with funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have designed an imaging technique to detect
early -
stage liver tumors, and have proven it successful in
mice.
In the study, which was conducted in collaboration
with researchers at UC San Francisco and published today in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists transplanted inhibitory neuron progenitors —
early -
stage brain cells that have the capacity to develop into mature inhibitory neurons — into two
mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, apoE4 or apoE4
with accumulation of amyloid beta, another major contributor to Alzheimer's.
In summary, we demonstrate similar neurological / motor function deficits in SOD1 and PFN1
mice, both exhibiting clinically - relevant attributes of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
with more advanced computer vision systems identifying distinctive behavioral patterns and discriminating the phenotype at very
early disease
stages in both models.
This strain showed a highly virulent phenotype,
with rapid multiplication during the
early stage of infection in a murine model of TB
with excessive lung inflammation, and infection
with this strain resulted in more rapid death of
mice than infection
with the reference H37Rv strain.
LaDu, working
with Leon Tai, research assistant professor in anatomy and cell biology, and their coworkers gave bexarotene to
mice carrying APOE4 or APOE3 for seven days during the
early, intermediate, or late
stages of AD.