Sentences with phrase «mouse kidney tissue»

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Bones make hormones that chat with other organs and tissues, including the brain, kidneys and pancreas, experiments in mice have shown.

After giving the cells a week to get used to each other, the scientists implanted the chimeric concoction into the protective tissue surrounding the kidneys of living mice.

Gorelick would also like to make sure that no dangerous levels of radiation are released as the bacteria die, noting that some buildup was seen in the kidney tissue of the mice treated in the new study.

So we tested this in mouse models and in human polycystic kidney tissues, and, in both cases, high levels of pIgR were expressed in kidney cysts.»

Through studies conducted in mice, Oliver M. Steinmetz, MD (University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, in Germany) and his colleagues have shown that the messenger protein IL - 6, which is rapidly produced at high levels during an acute inflammatory form of kidney disease, potently dampens activation of tissue - destructive immune cells called macrophages.

After transplanting the human iPS cell - based kidney tissue into a mouse body, glomeruli connecting to mouse kidney capillaries formed.

«Our stem cells also survive outside of mice, in a culture, so we can also manipulate them in a laboratory,» said Abad, adding that: «The next step is studying if these new stem cells are capable of efficiently generating different tissues such as that of the pancreas, liver or kidney.»

Rare stem cells (in red) that give rise to scar - tissue secreting myofibroblast cells, here found near the blood vessels of a mouse kidney (in green).

The absolute wet weight of heart, spleen, and kidney tissues was significantly lower in IL - 15Rα — KO mice compared with B6129 mice.

The researchers analyzed the concentrations of 5,713 different lipids, or fat molecules and their derivatives, present in samples of brain, kidney and muscle tissues taken from humans, chimpanzees, macaques and mice.

On the other hand, there are many other tissues — notably, the kidney and articular cartilage — where p16Ink4a - expressing senescent cells appear to be a contributing factor to human and murine degenerative aging, but which were not evaluated in treated or control mice in this study, and it would be of interest to see the effects of ablation of p16Ink4a - positive senescent cells.

Studying cells from the stomach and pancreas in humans and mice, as well as mouse kidney and liver cells, and cells from more than 800 tumor and precancerous lesions in people, the researchers found when tissue is injured by infections or trauma, mature cells can revert back to a stem - cell state in which they divide repeatedly.

He later combined it with studies on chromatin, tissue specific gene expression and mouse models for human diseases including Type II diabetes, polycystic kidney disease as well as cancer.

When normal mice were exposed to TNF, all tissues studied (liver, kidney, spleen, thymus, colon, and lymph nodes) produced large amounts of A20 and the mice survived unharmed.