GREEN GLOB - LINS Spurred by a dose of misfolded proteins, a 20 - week -
old mouse developed clumps of deformed proteins (green) in a cluster of cells called an islet (red) in its pancreas.
In 2010, Esmon and his colleagues compared how young and
old mice developed clots in response to an infection.
Not exact matches
The team found neonatal
mice with the mutations had normal - appearing skin, and the dry itchy skin of dermatitis did not
develop until the
mice were a few months
old, the equivalent of a young adult in human years.
The researchers studied
mice engineered to
develop plaques in their brains when the animals are about 10 weeks
old.
The brains of
mice engineered to
develop Alzheimer's disease were riddled with these plaques, clumps of amyloid - beta protein fragments, by the time the animals were 10 months
old.
As a final step, the researchers fed the CTB - MBP - containing capsules to 15 - month -
old mice, the equivalent of 80 or more human years, bred to
develop Alzheimer's disease.
Additionally, the researchers report online today in Cell,
old mice injected with this protein for 30 days
developed younger, stronger heart tissue.
The researchers extracted mammary buds, the early
developing form of the mammary gland, from 14 - day -
old mouse embryos, which is a critical time for mammary development in rodents, according to Speroni.
Older mice became ill, but did not always
develop infection, and they ultimately recovered.
When the scientists blocked Treg cells from accumulating in the fat by targeting a molecule that the immune cells require,
mice no longer
developed type 4 diabetes in
old age.
Tilly and his team examined the ovaries of
old mice in which the Bax gene had been «knocked out» in early embryos before they
developed.
Older mice seem to benefit from such an arrangement,
developing healthier organs and becoming protected from age - related disease.
The scientists infected 1 - day -
old C57BL / 6
mice with Zika virus and found that they
develop symptoms of neurological disease, such as unsteady gait and seizures that gradually fade over two weeks.
So the team engineered a
mouse model that gradually lost the enzyme as it grew
older and then bred those
mice with rodents that were engineered to
develop amyloid plaques from an age of 75 days.
Lloyd
Old, Thierry Boon, and colleagues
develop the TNF release assay for
mouse systems in which release of TNF by T cells could be used to assess specific T cell recognition, facilitating the cloning of human tumor antigens.
Tanzi and Moir worked with youthful, four - week -
old mice, which were a long way from
developing amyloid - beta plaques.
Even though the
mice were genetically predisposed to
develop glaucoma — one of the leading causes of blindness in humans — they never did, no matter how
old they got.
We observed no significant effect of genotype for any of these genes (data not shown), indicating that 7 - to 8 - month -
old Grn − / −
mice have not yet
developed the elevated levels of inflammatory cytokines found at
older ages (Filiano et al., 2013).
(A) The expression patterns of germ cell marker genes in monkey testis (5 years
old),
mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF), monkey ES cells (ES), and
developing EBs (days 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28) were examined using an RT - PCR analysis.
Four weeks -
old patDp / +
mice develop a low bone mass phenotype in the appendicular but not the axial skeleton compared to the littermate controls.