Sentences with phrase «mouse obesity research»

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Recent research has already demonstrated a number of abnormalities in cloned mice and other species, including obesity, pneumonia, liver failure, and premature death (ScienceNOW, 11 February); most cloned oocytes never make it through gestation.

The revolution in obesity research began less than five years ago with the landmark discovery of a gene for leptin, the weight - regulating hormone found in both mice and people.

«In our mouse experiments, olive oil produced essentially identical effects as Plenish — more obesity than coconut oil, although less than conventional soybean oil — and very fatty livers, which was surprising as olive oil is typically considered to be the healthiest of all the vegetable oils,» said Poonamjot Deol, an assistant project scientist working in Sladek's lab and the co-first author of the research paper.

Now Catherine Suter at Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney and her colleagues have investigated the longer - term effects of paternal obesity by mating obese male mice with lean females.

Kravitz has a background in studying Parkinson's disease, and when he began conducting obesity research a few years ago, he was struck by similarities in behavior between obese mice and Parkinsonian mice.

Next, studies involving germ - free mice (that is, mice that lack microbes) and other research uncovered ties between these microbes, our so - called microbiota, and health — with bacteria playing potentially key roles in immunity, obesity, and development.

In other research, a knockout of the gene that encodes one type of lncRNA in mice conferred some resistance to obesity caused by a high - fat diet.

Using cells from mice and human livers, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute researchers demonstrated for the first time how under specific conditions, such as obesity, liver CD8 + T cells, white blood cells which play an important role in the control of viral infections, become highly activated and inflammatory, reprogramming themselves into disease - driving cells.

Despite the common perception that good - tasting food is unhealthy because it causes obesity, new research from the Monell Center using a mouse model suggests that desirable taste in and of itself does not lead to weight gain.

In 1996, a regular customer of Research Diets, Inc. approached Dr. Ulman to help formulate an OpenSource Diet to use in a Diet Induced Obesity (DIO) mouse model.

Apr. 14, 2016 — An international research team that included scientists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center has found a novel way to counteract obesity in mice — by stimulating the growth of blood vessels in fat tissue.

The center also participates in the national «MICROMouse» program, which awards competitive one - year grants up to $ 75,000 for research projects that have the potential to enhance and advance the mission of the MMPC as a resource for scientists using mice to study diabetes and obesity.

To explore whether this was a cause of obesity or the effect of it, another research team gave mice the bacteria from sets of twins where one was obese and the other was lean.

Studies in rabbits are somewhat limited (we tend to do most of our scientific research on mice), but the flavonoids found in orange peels may have powerful protective effects — some studies suggest that flavonoids can inhibit certain proteins that have been linked to obesity and cancer.