Sentences with phrase «other than a normal mouse»

Not exact matches

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

Three groups of middle - aged mice (about a year old) were studied: one group ate a normal diet, in which fewer than 30 percent of calories came from fat, while two others were fed high - calorie diets in which 60 percent of the calories came from fat.

Then, he found that mice lacking Klotho died young, after developing arteriosclerosis and other age - related conditions much earlier than normal (Science, 7 November 1997, p. 1013).

By 2003 other scientists had genetically manipulated mice to be relatively insensitive to either insulin or insulin - like growth factor; in both cases, the genetically engineered mice lived significantly longer than normal mice.

Other researchers had linked the ank mutation to mouse chromosome 15; in this week's Science, Kingsley's team reports that it's a single typo in a previously unknown gene, which they called ank, that led to a protein about 10 % shorter than the normal version.

Zeroing in on this kinase was encouraging, Goga said, because other researchers have shown that genetic - knockout mice that lack the entire family of PIM kinases are slightly smaller than normal mice, but «basically fine,» indicating that a drug targeting just PIM1 may have manageable levels of toxicity in breast cancer patients.

On the other hand, as they aged, these «knockout mice» grew fatter than the normal mice, especially when fed a high - fat diet.

The muscle fibers were larger and more numerous than in normal mice, and even after a year the mutant mice show no other abnormalities.

Researchers at the University of Texas (U.T.) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas noticed that mice used two primary methods to cope with defeat after being repeatedly pummeled by larger, more aggressive foes: Some of the weaker members withdrew, avoiding all types of social interaction for more than a month, whereas others rolled with the punches, so to speak, quickly bouncing back to their normal behavior.

He notes, however, that other attempts to stimulate bone growth in mice by manipulating cell signaling proteins have produced denser than normal bones — and he's surprised that Helms's team didn't see the same.

Mice with the PER1 phosphorylation defects ate earlier than other mice — causing them to wake up and snack before their sleep cycle was over — and ate more food throughout their normal waking perMice with the PER1 phosphorylation defects ate earlier than other mice — causing them to wake up and snack before their sleep cycle was over — and ate more food throughout their normal waking permice — causing them to wake up and snack before their sleep cycle was over — and ate more food throughout their normal waking period.

And, consistent with other studies, when these mice ate a high - fat diet, they gained weight faster than their normal counterparts.

When the researchers induced wounds in these mice, they found that the mice without TSP2 healed significantly better and faster than other mice that had diabetes along with normal levels of TSP2.

mouse studies, macrophages taken from obese mice were less receptive to insulin than normal (in other words insulin resistant to a degree).