Sentences with phrase «mouse study at»

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In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

A study at NYU Langone showed that when mice were given oxytocin, they started caring for the other mice's babies as if they were their own.

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Sue, who works at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada, first looked at studies with mice, which he suggests are «good models for human physiology.»

A study at Harvard University found that alternate - day fasting among mice, «protected mice from strokes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and consistently extended their life spans by 30 percent.»

Surprisingly, both the fiber additives and the supplements FAIL to feed your microbiome, and instead, they CANNIBALIZE the mucus lining for fuel, at least for mice, according to this study.

A study published in January found that the immune response to the common cold in a test group of mice was impaired at the lower body temperature compared to the core body temperature.

One study looked at behavior among mice, and concluded that males with new offspring develop new brain cells and neurons when they are physically present with their pups that do not form when they are absent.

Not only would the new method, tested only in mice, be more convenient but also more effective than the flu shot or nasal spray, according to a study at the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul.

For example, Dr. Hugh S. Taylor, professor and chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale University, studied the effects of non-ionizing radiation on the fetuses of pregnant mice.

A 1999 study at Vermont's Anderson Laboratories concluded that two of three brands of disposable diapers tested emitted harmful chemicals capable of causing respiratory distress and pulmonary irritation in mice.

One study found brain hemorrhages in mouse fetuses exposed to pulsed ultrasound at doses similar to those used on human babies.

Mothers who overeat during the period when they are breastfeeding may have children who are at increased risk of becoming obese and going through early puberty, a new study of mice suggests.

The authors of the study referenced in the article found there was no causal connection between light and cell division in the brain of mice if they had artificial light shined at them at one - hour intervals.

But a new study shows that, in mice at least, cosmic radiation likely causes cognitive impairment.

For this study, researchers looked at whether BNP played a role in transmitting acute, inflammatory or neuropathic pain in mice.

«The newborn mice inherited a very altered, skewed population of microbes,» said Eugene B. Chang, MD, Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Director of the Microbiome Medicine Program of the Microbiome Center, and senior author of the study, published this week in the journal Cell Reports.

A study by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine shows that when mice that are genetically susceptible to developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were given antibiotics during late pregnancy and the early nursing period, their offspring were more likely to develop an inflammatory condition of the colon that resembles human IBD.

«In previous studies, we found specific cells in the medial septum that fire at higher rates when the mouse moves faster.

«Our study shows that epigenetic drift, which is characterized by gains and losses in DNA methylation in the genome over time, occurs more rapidly in mice than in monkeys and more rapidly in monkeys than in humans,» explains Jean - Pierre Issa, MD, Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research at LKSOM, and senior investigator on the new study.

«This well - designed set of experiments shows that chronic THC pretreatment appears to restore a significant level of diminished cognitive performance in older mice, while corroborating the opposite effect among young mice,» wrote Susan Weiss, director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who was not involved in the study, in an e-mail.

«The mouse is a particularly suitable model in which to study the development of the auditory system, because newborn mice are deaf and only begin to perceive acoustic signals at 12 days after birth.

On reanalysing data from the group's past studies, such as on pain sensitivity to hot water, the researchers found that mice tested by men showed lower baseline pain sensitivity than mice tested by women.The work indirectly demonstrates potential effects on nearly any kind of medical research, says Joseph Garner, who studies mouse behavior and well - being at Stanford University in California.

In a study published earlier this year, his team, along with scientists at Arcturus Therapeutics, treated hemophilia in mice using mRNA that encodes a clotting protein.

«Our research is the first to study Zika infection in a mouse model that transmits the virus in a way similar to humans,» explains Alysson R. Muotri, Ph.D., professor and director of the Stem Cell Program at UC San Diego and co-senior author of the study.

The new study used the model to examine aggressive behavior directed at unfamiliar mice.

«Our research suggests that in mice, males may be more vulnerable to the effects of maternal inflammation than females, and the impact may be life long,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology / obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine.

A decade ago, Andrzej Bartke, a Polish - born physiologist at Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Carbondale, was studying reproductive endocrinology in giant mice that had been engineered to overproduce human growth hormone.

They studied the bone metabolism at the cellular level using advanced imaging and computational techniques, which allowed them to identify 142 metabolites that were significantly altered by more than 1.5 times in the diabetic mice.

Her main focus has been studying how the central nervous system develops in embryos: in frogs as a graduate student, then in mice as a postdoc at Duke University starting in 1997, and later at U.C. San Francisco when her lab moved to the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center there in 1999.

Downstairs, the researchers maintained a colony of mice at the other end of the size spectrum: the Ames dwarf line, which Bartke had been studying since the»60s.

Ellen Heber - Katz, a scientist at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, used to study autoimmunity — that was until she noticed something strange in the mice she was using to model lupus: The small holes that she had poked in their ears to distinguish the animals from one another kept closing.

Mice with colon cancer studied by HQ Han and colleagues at Amgen Research in California stopped eating, and lost 20 per cent of their body weight in three weeks.

«The implications for mouse experiments are profound, and could help us cut through some persistent sources of confusion,» in genetic research, said Dr. Thaddeus Stappenbeck, an immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a co-author of the new study.

Marta Monteiro and colleagues at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, studied mice protected from the animal equivalent of multiple sclerosis by natural killer T - cells (NKT), a class of white blood cell which helps to control the immune system.

Most studies of mouse social hierarchy have focused on more aggressive behaviors such as how male mice might pick on new cage members, says Helmut Kessels, a neurologist at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience who was not involved with the research.

«Finding these similarities and studying the aspects of mouse biology that may reflect human biology, allows us to approach the study of human illnesses in a better way,» affirms Bing Ren, one of the principal authors from the ENCODE Consortium and a lecturer in molecular and cellular medicine at the University of California — San Diego.

«There's nothing natural about what we're doing, and adding a few tubes to a cage is not going to change that,» says Jonathan Godbout, a neuroscientist at The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus who studies aging and stress in mice.

Researchers studied the effect in mice of consuming feed enriched with oil from glasshouse - grown genetically engineered Camelina sativa, developed at the agricultural science centre Rothamsted Research.

The study «provided the surprising result that one new therapy currently being explored to lower insulin resistance promotes, rather than decreases, the formation of bone in mice,» says Darwin Prockop, a stem cell researcher at Texas A&M College of Medicine in Temple, who was not involved in the work.

Based primarily at Harvard with Maniatis, tenOever developed a knockout mouse model to study a particular protein, IKKε, that's involved in the immune response to viral infection.

They contacted Anutosh Chakraborty, a molecular biologist who was studying such mice down the hall at Scripps at the time.

Mouse study indicates signaling molecules at play in cancer may also promote atherosclerosis

Géléoc and colleagues at Boston Children's Hospital studied mice with a mutation in Ush1c, the same mutation that causes Usher type 1c in humans.

In the current study, Frank Longo, MD, PhD, and others at Stanford University, tested LM22A - 4, a drug that specifically binds to and activates the BDNF receptor TrkB on nerve cells, in mice that model the disorder.

A newly characterized group of pharmacological compounds block both the inflammation and nerve cell damage seen in mouse models of multiple sclerosis, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Mice transplanted with cells grown from a patient suffering from Huntington's disease (HD) develop the clinical features and brain pathology of that patient, suggests a study published in the latest issue of Acta Neuropathologica by CHA University in Korea, in collaboration with researchers at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada.

«At room temperature, the mice in our study were unable to properly control the blood flow to their tails, which caused heat loss,» says Dr Jens Mittag, senior author on the paper.

An additional study, currently available at bioRxiv, led by the researchers from the CRG and Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, highlights the fact that a substantial part of human and mice genes have maintained an essentially constant expression throughout evolution, in tissues and various organs.

Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.