Sentences with phrase «normal male mice»

Female mice and male mice that had been treated with estrogen were able to clear the bacteria from their lungs more rapidly than normal male mice.

But in mixed groups of mutated and genetically normal male mice, there was no social hierarchy.

Not exact matches

Oxytocin receptor in the Hypothalamus is Sufficient to Resue Normal Thermoregulation Function in Male Oxytocin Receptor Knockout Mice.

Both mouse and human males typically die early from the mutation in Mecp2, because their Y chromosome does not supply a normal copy of the gene.

Male mice from both strains lived 15 per cent longer than normal mice or females.

Older modified male mice metabolised sugar faster than normal mice and females, suggesting that SIRT6 might extend life by protecting against metabolic disorders such as diabetes.

But the males — despite having smaller testes and lower sperm counts than normal mice — were clearly fertile and produced offspring.

By contrast, these females retained a normal level of social interest in other females during estrus, and in male mice when not in estrus.

To determine what effect this had on fertility, Cook - Andersen's team set up an equal number of fertile male mice with 10 females lacking L2 in their eggs and 10 normal females.

Transgenic males weighed 10 percent more than normal males, but Bartfai says that the heft indicates that the transgenic mice required less energy to maintain their core temperature.

While these XX male mice had the same level of testosterone as normal XY mice, they displayed more masculine sexual behaviours — mounting females more often and ejaculating more frequently.

Thus, mutation of mouse Boule disrupts male reproduction but does not affect normal development, growth or female fertility, suggesting that mammalian Boule is required only for male reproduction, similar to fly boule but different from worm daz - 1.