Sentences with phrase «obese mice given»

Diet - induced obese mice given these agonists had reduced adiposity, plasma triglycerides, cholesterol, leptin and IL - 6.

Maratos - Flier's lab hopes to explore whether obese mice given the hormone will get lean again.

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In the study, mice were given food until they became obese, and were then fed the drug, which increases the cellular metabolism of obesity - linked white fat cells.

BYE BYE BUDS Mice that became obese on a high - fat diet (right) lost a quarter of their taste buds (stained red) and also had fewer progenitor cells (stained green)-- which give rise to new taste buds — than mice of a healthy weight on a regular diet (leMice that became obese on a high - fat diet (right) lost a quarter of their taste buds (stained red) and also had fewer progenitor cells (stained green)-- which give rise to new taste buds — than mice of a healthy weight on a regular diet (lemice of a healthy weight on a regular diet (left).

(Blaser's group reported earlier this month in Cell that giving mice penicillin soon after birth changed their gut microbiome and made them much more likely to be obese as adults.)

«When given to obese mouse mothers during pregnancy and lactation, we found it protected their offspring from developing symptoms of liver fat and damage that leads to NAFLD in early adulthood.»

«The goal of our study, which we carried out using a mouse model of obese pregnancy, was to determine whether a novel antioxidant given to mothers during pregnancy and breastfeeding could prevent the development of NAFLD in the offspring.»

In one recent test, mice implanted with fecal microbes from thin humans stayed thin, while mice given bacteria from obese people gained weight.

«But what was really surprising was that when obese mutant mice were given metformin, the most common and inexpensive drug prescribed to Type 2 diabetics, the drug failed to lower their blood sugar levels,» said Steinberg.

The researchers gave adiponectin intravenously to obese mice during the last 4 days of their roughly 3 - week - long pregnancies — when the majority of fetal growth occurs.

Even obese mice bred to stay fat, when given low - calorie diets, lived longer than obese mice eating normally.

Giving obese mice a compound in green tea slowed their weight gain, according to Penn State scientists.

The mice given the Nobiletin flavonoid avoided these issues, while those that did not became obese, developed type 2 diabetes, and had atherosclerosis and fatty liver issues.

The researchers gave vitamin D supplements to obese and non-obese mice genetically engineered to be predisposed to endometrial cancer.

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.