Sentences with phrase «ordinary mice»

In ordinary mice, persistent low - frequency stimulation to the hippocampus weakens synaptic connections between neurons; high - frequency stimulation strengthens them.

The mutant mice had difficulty learning and remembering the location of a hidden platform in a water maze, which ordinary mice accomplish with ease.

With a genetic tweaking of muscle fibers, Harvard University cell biologist Bruce Spiegelman turned ordinary mice into rodent triathletes.

The same was true for ordinary mice given drugs to suppress cytokines.

The Stanford researchers employed young laboratory mice that had been specially bred and raised in aseptic environments so that, unlike ordinary mice (and ordinary humans), their intestines were devoid of any microbial inhabitants.

In adult knockouts as well as juveniles, the ocular dominance columns associated with the missing eye expanded much more markedly than in ordinary mice.

Mice of the strain they created — dubbed «Doogie» after the brilliant teenager in a U.S. comedy series called «Doogie Howser, M.D.» — remember objects shown to them days before, which ordinary mice had forgotten.

But injecting it into the spine made both the genetically engineered and ordinary mice scratch themselves rapidly with their hind paws.

Days later, when these knockout mice were given the same tasks, the animals regained their expertise faster and more fully than ordinary mice with strokes.

In amyloid - beta - overproducing Alzheimer's mice, researchers found that the frequency of HSF1 binding to the TTR gene promoter was doubled in the Alzheimer's mice compared to ordinary mice.

The discovery began with the observation that mice bred without the NDST1 gene, which produces the eponymous NDST1 enzyme, are more likely to develop CDH than ordinary mice.

Although caloric restriction also can lengthen life, the researchers found that their transgenic mice ate no more or less than ordinary mice.

«But as far as the digits, it may not be dramatically different from what an ordinary mouse can do.

Anthony Mescher, a cell biologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine with expertise in amphibian regeneration, thinks Heber - Katz's mice do repair injuries better than ordinary mice.

Biologists have created mice that live longer and appear to age more slowly than ordinary mice.

Afterwards, he takes notice of Munchie stating that he's no ordinary mouse and will give The Hero a portion of cheese from time to time.