Sentences with phrase «obese mice lacked»

Normal mice had a gene which caused fat cells to secrete leptin, but the mutated obese mice lacked that gene.

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Surprisingly, however, the mice lacking HDAC3 in brown fat did not become obese.

Gordon and his team found several years ago that genetically obese mice (the animals lacked the ability to make leptin, a hormone that limits appetite) had 50 percent fewer Bacteroidetes bacteria and 50 percent more Firmicutes bacteria than normal mice did.