Sentences with phrase «mouse studies like»

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That study that gave the mice something like the equivalent of 300 cans of diet soda per day.

«You watch Pedro and it's like a cat - and - mouse game, and he's the cat, studying you.

Another study published in 1999 by Anderson Laboratories found that lab mice exposed to various brands of disposable diapers experienced asthma - like symptoms, as well as eye, nose and throat irritation.

Cadwell cautions that such a strategy must await further evidence to confirm his theory that this trend in Paneth cell death occurs in people deficient in ATG16L1 who are, like his study mice, prone to higher risk of inflammatory disease and transplant rejection.

In this study, Dr. Dimitriou monitored spindle signals in humans while they learned to control the position of a visual cursor by moving their hand (much like using a computer mouse).

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

A new study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers has found that in mice, adjusting levels of a compound called kynurenic acid can have significant effects on schizophrenia - like behavior.

A drug that acts like a growth - promoting protein in the brain reduces degeneration and motor deficits associated with Huntington's disease in two mouse models of the disorder, according to a study appearing November 27 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

It also makes it simpler to study more exotic creatures (beyond the standard flies and mice), such as animals like Parhyale or butterflies.

BRAIN DRAIN Certain influenza viruses, like the H3N2 strain shown in this transmission electron micrograph, can cause memory trouble and brain damage in mice months after infection, a new study shows.

«Cannabidiol benefits and mechanisms shown in mouse study of Dravet syndrome: Cannabidiol treatment reduces seizures and autism - like behaviors in mice with this genetic condition.»

In the new study, the Salk scientists used a mouse model of autism — an inbred strain of mouse previously found to display autism - like symptoms — to ask whether lowering the level of dicarbonyl methylglyoxal (a common byproduct of sugar metabolism) could alleviate symptoms of autism in the animals.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists utilized mouse studies to suggest that a receptor called Oprl1 is altered in mice with PTSD - like symptoms.

The study revealed sex - specific, anxiety - like behaviour in the offspring of both normal - weight and obese pregnant mice exposed to the androgen dihydrotestosterone.

During a conversation this month in his office at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, Fine rattled off more dismal stats, like the many failed clinical trials of experimental drugs for glioblastoma; like the paltry increase in life expectancy for people with glioblastoma from 12 months in 1990 to 15 today; like the stupid (in hindsight) assumptions about how glioblastomas grow and how to study them in mice.

Now it seems like both the high and low levels could lead to depression: Yirmiya and his colleagues have done studies in mice for the past 20 years suggesting that a specific level of cytokines is needed to ward off symptoms of depression.

«When we feed mice high fat foods, which is like going to McDonalds every day, they become obese and lose most of their brown fat,» said study lead author Kosaku Shinoda, a postdoc in Kajimura's lab.

Poss's group expects studies of CTGF to move into mammals like mice.

Several studies have shown that, like the mice in the new study, babies born by C - section have different compositions of bacteria than babies born vaginally.

In the mouse study, the insulin - producing cells were placed under the kidney capsule — a thin membrane layer that surrounds the kidney — where they developed into an organ - like structure with its own blood supply.

«That means we can study such brain states in animal models like flies or mice without worrying about whether they have «feelings» or not.

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.

In their publication in Nature, the researchers studied how mice use their facial whiskers to explore their environment, much like we do in the dark with our hands and fingers.

In a study that has implications for humans with inflammatory diseases, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and colleagues have found that, given over a six - week period, the artificial sweetener sucralose, known by the brand name Splenda, worsens gut inflammation in mice with Crohn's - like disease, but had no substantive effect on those without the condition.

But in a 2012 study, they found that when they injected synthetic amyloids into lab mice bred to have an MS - like brain inflammation, the mice got better and were able to walk again.

In a 2011 study, they showed that CBD helps treat MS - like symptoms in mice by preventing immune cells in their bodies from transforming and attacking the insulating covers of nerve cells in the spinal cord.

Historically, animal models — from fruit flies to mice — have been the go - to technique to study the biological consequences of aging, especially in tissues that can't be easily sampled from living humans, like the brain.

Randy Nelson, professor and chairman of neuroscience at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, has published more than two dozen studies done in mice and hamsters showing that light at night increases body weight and anxiety - like behaviors.

In a new study published in the Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, Drs. Ewa Kozela, Ana Juknat, Neta Rimmerman and Zvi Vogel of Tel Aviv University's Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Center for the Biology of Addictive Diseases and Sackler Faculty of Medicine demonstrate that some chemical compounds found in marijuana can help treat MS - like diseases in mice by preventing inflammation in the brain and spinal cord.

Exploratorium, San Francisco Study live specimens, like mouse stem cells as they progress toward becoming beating heart cells, at the high - resolution Microscope Imaging Station.

And, Wray says, given the growing ability of researchers to study enhancers and other DNA in mice, «my guess is there are probably other stories like this in the works.»

The condition is not only untreatable, but seems to be peculiar to humans, meaning scientists have been unable to study the disease and seek new treatments by modeling it in an animal like the mouse.

A study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers found that injecting a vaccine - like compound into mice was effective in protecting them from malaria.

To study diseases that cause blindness in people, scientists typically genetically «knock out» cone - related genes in animals like mice.

Results of previous studies in mice of bexarotene's effect on AD have been mixed, and none of those studies were done in mice that carry a human APOE gene and also develop progressive, AD - like pathology.

As the researchers have shown in various studies on mice, the widespread active ingredient sildenafil or a medication against pulmonary hypertension, for instance, can be used to reduce the number of white fat cells to the benefit of the brown fat cells and thus accelerate fat burning like a turbocharger.

After introducing stem cells in brain tissue in the laboratory and seeing promising results, Prof. Offen leveraged the study to mice with Alzheimer's disease - like symptoms.

The Weill Cornell researchers studied more than 500 Crohn's disease patients and found that those who carry a homozygous mutation in the CX3CR1 gene have a reduced gut antifungal response much like that seen in the mice lacking CX3CR1 + phagocytes.

Until now, the human gut has been hard to study because it's so different from those in typical model organisms like mice, so these tiny tummies open up a world of possibility.

The FDA - approved drug fluoxetine, also known by the brand name Prozac, restored levels of a key neurotransmitter and improved behavior in mice with an autism - like disorder, a new study in the June 21 issue of Science Advances reports.

Jaenisch's study comes hard on the heels of experiments in which mice with a Parkinson's - like condition were successfully treated using genetically - matched neurons created by cloning, rather than genetic reprogramming.

Indeed, those mice in Schwarzchild's study that were pretreated with caffeine retained near - normal dopamine levels when exposed to a chemical known to induce Parkinson's - like symptoms by decreasing brain dopamine.

Now, researchers at the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University, and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan have succeeded in predicting states of mood - change - like behavior by studying the gene expression patterns in the brain in a bipolar disorder mouse model.

A recent mouse study of a drug known as CTEP suggests the drug is surprisingly helpful for HD - like symptoms in mice.

The study of mice suggests that a high - fat diet drives a population boom of intestinal stem cells and also generates a pool of other cells that behave like stem cells — that is, they can reproduce themselves indefinitely and differentiate into other cell types.

The mice in the study, like humans, started to get Parkinson's symptoms in mid-life.

That's what the lead researcher of a study of a breast cancer vaccine in mice would like you to think.

To answer basic research questions like these, investigators study bacteria, viruses, fungi, animal cells and human cells (both healthy and cancerous) grown in the lab, and tumors in animals, such as mice and rats.

In recent years, researchers have developed so - called «senolytic» drugs that wipe out senescent cells in aging mice and mouse models of age - related disease, exploiting the high dependence of these cells on specific biochemical survival pathways.9, 10 In these studies, senolytic drugs have restored exercise capacity9 and formation of new blood and immune precursor cells11 in aging mice to near youthful norms, and prevented or treated mouse models of diseases of aging like osteoarthritis, 12 fibrotic lung disease, 13 hair loss, 14 atherosclerosis, 15,16 and age - related diseases of the heart itself.9 UNITY Biotechnology is leading a growing charge toward the clinic, with human clinical trials expected to begin in 2019.

Long - term exercise appears to be beneficial for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) like mice, suggesting a potential of active physiotherapy for patient care; according to a study published today in The Jo