Sentences with phrase «studying mouse models of diabetes»
The center, founded in 2001, provides novel techniques for studying mouse models of diabetes and other metabolic disorders.
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The researchers used two different mouse models of diabetes to study the effects of the diet.
The new study, using an experimental mouse model of diabetes, is published online in the journal PLOS One.
Studies in mouse models suggest that BL - 9020 can inhibit beta cell death in the pancreas, thus preventing full maturation of Type 1 diabetes.
Morgan Fullerton, lead author of the study, added: «Unlike the majority of studies using genetic mouse models, we haven't deleted an entire protein; we have only made a very minor genetic mutation, equivalent to what might be seen in humans, thus highlighting the very precise way metformin lowers blood sugar in Type 2 Diabetes»
«We think that for the first time, we have a mouse model of anorexia that closely resembles the conditions leading up to the disease in humans,» said study leader Lori Zeltser, PhD, associate professor of pathology & cell biology and a researcher in the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center.
«Natural killer cells help to drive inflammation, insulin resistance: Study in mouse models of diabetes identifies key immune mechanisms in abdominal fat.»
In the laboratory arm of the Joslin study, researchers studied a mouse model of human type 1 diabetes.
Harmonising ontological descriptions of phenotype in mouse and human and improving links between mouse model data and human data, using diabetes and obesity as examples, will increase the relevance of data that is generated in mouse studies for clinical studies.
In the Joslin study, scientists first examined gene expression in the hypothalamus of a mouse model of insulin - deficient (type 1) diabetes.
The two labs are now collaborating on further studies of the new enzymes — and the potential benefits of inhibiting them — in mouse models of diabetes, inflammation and autoimmune disease.
Studies using a mouse model of type 1 diabetes highlight a potential role for human adipose stem cells in treatment regimens and, further, they reveal a secreted factor which has important therapeutic relevance