Sentences with phrase «of laboratory mice»

In a breakthrough study that could improve how people learn and retain information, the researchers significantly boosted the memory and mental performance of laboratory mice through electrical stimulation.

You will study all these procedures and acquire these skills to be used in the care of laboratory mice, companion animals, livestock, and exotic species.

In the Oct. 30 edition of Science, scientists describe strains of laboratory mice bred to test the role of an individual's genetic makeup in the course of Ebola disease.

Using funding from a grant to the World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses (WRCEVA) at UTMB, Rossi injected several genetically distinct varieties of laboratory mice with Zika virus isolated in Asia in 2010.

«We might be able to make a better set of laboratory mouse models... [that] would be more predictive of human disease,» says John Wherry, an immunologist at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the study.

In this report, scientists studied two groups of laboratory mice that had been fed a «Western diet» and then switched to different, healthier diets, low in fat and cholesterol.

In a breakthrough study that could improve how people learn and retain information, researchers at the Catholic University Medical School in Rome significantly boosted the memory and mental performance of laboratory mice through electrical stimulation.

University of Maryland investigators have now shown that a «messenger molecule» produced by the opportunistic human pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, encourages bacteria to colonize catheters in the bladders of laboratory mice, where they form biofilms.

But according to a report published today in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a strain of laboratory mice dubbed MRL mice succeeded in regenerating heart tissue without the aid of drugs or other treatments.

Chen's team focused on the dorsal root ganglion of laboratory mice, a structure near the spinal cord that is full of sensory nerve cells.

Professor Viney from Bristol's School of Biological Sciences said: «It's remarkable that despite the enormous number of studies of laboratory mice, ours is the first in - depth study of wild mice immune systems.

If Schwann cell numbers are too sparse and widely - spaced, insufficient insulating myelin forms around nerves, leading to nerve insulation defects in the peripheral nerves of laboratory mice.

There was no military band or White House reception this time, but researchers celebrated the release of an important mammalian genome 6 May — that of a laboratory mouse called the «black 6.»

Kohn, Nakhleh and lead author Kevin Liu, their former postdoctoral researcher and now an assistant professor at Michigan State University, employed Rice's supercomputers and the Nakhleh lab's open - source PhyloNet - HMM software to locate statistically likely connections between the re-sequenced complete genomes, some newly determined and some collected previously in a massive effort to understand the evolutionary origins of the laboratory mouse genome.

This is a great advantage in basic biology research, but creating that predictability means that a controlled environment, and not the survival pressures of the outside world, shaped the microbiotas of laboratory mice.

We are currently focusing our efforts on an exceptional resource of laboratory mouse strains with proven Mendelian disorders with unknown genetic etiology, strains stewarded by the Mouse Mutant Resource at The Jackson Laboratory for over 50 years.

The Mouse Genome Database (MGD): comprehensive resource for genetics and genomics of the laboratory mouse.

Chandan Sen, Director of the Regenerative Medicine and Cell - Based Therapies, cited a treatment of laboratory mice that restored their brain function after suffering from a stroke using the medical device.

Basic overview of laboratory mouse genetics / Advanced mouse genetics programs: European and international new programs.

This strain was created by researchers in Japan by selectively breeding the offspring of a laboratory mouse that had spontaneously developed symptoms resembling type 1 diabetes in humansANCHOR.

Thanks to an in - depth analysis by a team led by Fernando Pardo - Manuel de Villena, PhD, in the UNC Department of Genetics and Gary Churchill, PhD, at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, researchers will be able to use an online resource dubbed the Mouse Phylogeny Viewer to select from among 162 strains of laboratory mice for which the entire genome has been characterized.

In the case of the laboratory mice in the study I mentioned before, the fiber - starved, mucus - degrading bacteria of the gut microbiota ramped up the expression of special enzymes that decimated the protective mucus lining of the intestine.

In this study, a drug was used to suppress the action of the mTOR gene by 25 percent in a group of laboratory mice.

They then tested and compared the gut microbiomes (collective genomes of the gut microbiota) of the wild mice (Mus musculus domesticus) and a common strain of laboratory mice, called C57BL / 6, from multiple sources.

Prusiner, together with Fred Cohen and his colleagues, also at UCSF, and Ruth Gabizon at Hadassah University Hospital in Israel, used human prions to infect a special strain of laboratory mice.

«We think that by restoring the natural «microbial identity» of laboratory mice, we will improve the modeling of complex diseases of free - living mammals, which includes humans and their diseases,» said Barbara Rehermann, M.D., senior author of the paper.

When exposed to a high dose of influenza virus, 92 percent of the laboratory mice with wild microbiomes survived, whereas only 17 percent of laboratory mice and mice in the control group survived.

Recently, Paprotka et al. [9] discovered two new murine endogenous pro-retroviruses: PreXMRV - 1 and PreXMRV - 2, in several strains of laboratory mice.

Food and liquid intake measurements are recorded using patented algorithmic load cell technology as applied to behavioral research models of laboratory mice, rats and NHPs.