Sentences with phrase «study than a mouse»

Mice in which telomeres have been lengthened by gene therapy tended to live longer in some studies than mice that didn't get the treatment.

Rhinos are much less studied than mice — but Jeanne Loring, director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute, has already turned northern white rhino cell cultures into pluripotent stem cells.

Not exact matches

Findings from a 2010 study in the Journal of Nutrition demonstrated that blueberry - fed mice had less atherosclerotic plaque than the mice that did not receive blueberry supplementation.

Not only would the new method, tested only in mice, be more convenient but also more effective than the flu shot or nasal spray, according to a study at the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul.

«How obesity dulls the sense of taste: Obese mice had about 25 percent fewer taste buds than lean mice in study.»

However, this study revealed that mice are more similar to humans than previously thought, with an average of around 10 % of active genes escaping X-inactivation per tissue.

«Our study shows that epigenetic drift, which is characterized by gains and losses in DNA methylation in the genome over time, occurs more rapidly in mice than in monkeys and more rapidly in monkeys than in humans,» explains Jean - Pierre Issa, MD, Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research at LKSOM, and senior investigator on the new study.

On reanalysing data from the group's past studies, such as on pain sensitivity to hot water, the researchers found that mice tested by men showed lower baseline pain sensitivity than mice tested by women.The work indirectly demonstrates potential effects on nearly any kind of medical research, says Joseph Garner, who studies mouse behavior and well - being at Stanford University in California.

In a study, when mice ate broccoli with their regular diet, they were better able to tolerate digestive issues similar to symptoms of leaky gut and colitis than mice that were not placed on a broccoli - supplemented diet, according to Gary Perdew, the John T. and Paige S. Smith Professor in Agricultural Sciences, Penn State.

«Our research suggests that in mice, males may be more vulnerable to the effects of maternal inflammation than females, and the impact may be life long,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology / obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine.

They studied the bone metabolism at the cellular level using advanced imaging and computational techniques, which allowed them to identify 142 metabolites that were significantly altered by more than 1.5 times in the diabetic mice.

In the study, led by post-doctoral fellow Long N. Nguyen of Duke - NUS, researchers found that mice without the Mfsd2a transporter had brains a third smaller than those with the transporter, and exhibited memory and learning deficits and high levels of anxiety.

This scheme mimics a human scenario better than the recent study, which analyzed mice that express or lack APOE from birth.

Dr Luis Pedro Coelho, commented: «These findings suggest that dogs could be a better model for nutrition studies than pigs or mice and we could potentially use data from dogs to study the impact of diet on gut microbiota in humans, and humans could be a good model to study the nutrition of dogs.

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.

The less - complex nervous system of the fruit fly makes them easier to study than people or even mice, another genetic model organism.

The study «provided the surprising result that one new therapy currently being explored to lower insulin resistance promotes, rather than decreases, the formation of bone in mice,» says Darwin Prockop, a stem cell researcher at Texas A&M College of Medicine in Temple, who was not involved in the work.

In fact, both of the studies found that when adenosine was turned on in mouse tissue by other mechanisms, the pain response was equal to or better than the response generated by acupuncture.

Neurobiologist Gordon Fishell lost about 2,500 mice representing 40 genetic variants, which he had developed for studies of forebrain development over more than a decade.

But a study of mice shows that breast cancer cells decamp in groups, and the clumps of cells have a better chance of establishing a colony than loners do, Kevin Cheung of Johns Hopkins University reported December 7 at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.

They were also more sensitive to alcohol's effects than the normal mice were; studies have shown that the more sensitive a person is to alcohol, the less likely he or she is to abuse it.

A mouse study suggests marijuana may have the opposite effect on older people than it has on the young, boosting learning and memory instead of impairing it

In the new study, Ji's group put SHANK3 - deficient mice through a battery of sensory tests, finding that the animals had lower sensitivity than normal mice to heat and heat - related pain — akin to the soreness a person feels after a sunburn.

«The researchers also overdosed the mice tested in their study with levels of the ingredient at a rate hundreds of times greater than what would be consider a safe use level (based on EPA standards),» DeLeo said in an email.

The team's recent study in mice has found that the treatment reduced the mass of ovarian cancer tumors and was more effective at suppressing tumor growth than chemotherapy.

That study, «Adolescent mice, unlike adults, consume more alcohol in the presence of peers than alone,» was published in Developmental Science in November.

The study in which mice given heart transplants survived for longer when forced to listen to Verdi's La Traviata or a selection of Mozart than when listening to Enya or a monotone could just be down to variety (31 March, p 16).

Philip Laipis of the University of Florida, who has also observed tumors in AAV vector - treated mice, agrees, at least for studies using a similarly high dose of AAV to target liver cells, which are more likely than other cell types to take up the AAV vector.

BORN THIS WAY Mice born by C - section gained more weight than those born vaginally, a difference that may be caused by an altered microbiome, a new study suggests.

«This is the first study to offer an unbiased profile of novel imprinted genes in a mammal other than mice,» said lead author Xu Wang, a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Andrew Clark, professor of molecular biology and genetics and the study's senior author.

All three groups of mice gained weight during the study, but those in the exercising and shaken groups put on slightly less than the indolent rodents.

Some studies have found an increased cancer risk in mice and rats who were fed acrylamide, but those studies used doses between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than levels that people would be exposed to in food.

Several studies have shown that, like the mice in the new study, babies born by C - section have different compositions of bacteria than babies born vaginally.

The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

«Stem cells function far differently in mice than in monkeys,» says biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a senior scientist in the Division of Reproductive and Developmental Sciences at Oregon National Primate Research Center and lead author of the monkey study.

Gary Wormser, an author of the NYMC study, meanwhile, counters that single - dose doxy should be more effective in humans than in mice because it stays in our blood longer.

Half of the mice studied, belonging to a genetic line that suffers a form of Crohn's disease were more affected than the remaining half of mice, which belong to a healthy mouse line.

How seriously do you want to take the advice of a much - hyped 2008 Boston University study declaring that weight lifting can burn more fat than cardio exercise, when the conclusions were based entirely on sedentary mice genetically engineered to have bizarrely large muscles?

Randy Nelson, professor and chairman of neuroscience at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, has published more than two dozen studies done in mice and hamsters showing that light at night increases body weight and anxiety - like behaviors.

In another study, his team found that mice given chow containing trace amounts of arsenic, then exposed to a standard daily dose of ultraviolet light, had higher rates of skin cancers than mice given untainted chow.

The study, conducted in mice, found that exposure to air pollution during the equivalent of the first or second trimester in humans was linked to more negative birth outcomes than exposure later in pregnancy.

To show why, he pulls out a raft of study results collected in a large three - ring binder and points to several studies showing that mice subjected to stress developed more cancers than normal mice.

Miller and colleagues were intrigued by the possibility of designing studies to lower tau in people, but first they needed to see how the oligonucleotide worked in an animal more similar to people than a mouse.

In two independent studies, people and mice eating diets low in protein were healthier and tended to live longer than those eating protein - rich diets.

Their study showed that mice without the Y6 gene were smaller, and had less lean tissue, than normal mice.

«What we did in this paper is engineer our sensor to be about 15 times better than a previous version, and then compared it against a blood biomarker in a mouse model of ovarian cancer to show that we could beat it,» says Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the senior author of the study.

Out of more than 110 allegedly well - studied mouse - eared bat species, there turns out to be one that has been keeping its diet a mystery.

Russell Burke, a biologist at Hoftstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., who has studied Italian wall lizards in the U.S., says the species would be «at least as good as, and possibly better than» other bio-indicators, such as mice and plants.

In the new study, the researchers found that a fractured arm bone in newborn mice rapidly realigned through substantial movement of bone fragments rather than through bone remodeling — a slower process involving the simultaneous formation of new bone on one side and erosion of existing bone on the opposite side.

Fetuses from zinc - deficient mice in the study were 38 percent smaller on average than those from the control group fed a diet with zinc included.