Sentences with phrase «than in male mice»

The p - tau levels are higher in female than in male mice, and the increased p - tau was consistent with a proportional decrease in the post-synaptic marker levels analyzed.

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«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.

These epigenetic tweaks were then passed onto male pups, which produced higher levels of blood sugar - generating proteins in their livers than mice sired by unstressed fathers.

In mating experiments, yogurt - eating males inseminated their partners faster and produced more offspring than control mice.

Likewise, male mice with a Rett mutation have much more severe symptoms than the females do, says Zhong - wei Zhang, associate professor at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.

An accelerated progression may show up in clinical trials in human males, who live longer with the disease than mice.

«It has become more and more obvious that females in mice, birds, and all sorts of insects are mating with more than one male,» Gowaty says, meaning that promiscuity cuts both ways.

Female mice spent five times as much time in a place where they had encountered a dish with male urine than at a place where they encountered water.

Adult male mice also started off with fewer of the lymphoid cells in the lungs than adult females, the researchers found: Female mice had about 1 1/2 times as many of these immune cells as males.

So when Drake and his colleagues measured the RNA levels — a direct link to how much of a gene is being produced — in the genes of 334 mice, he didn't expect to find more than a few variations that might help explain why males and females have such different rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes or why they react differently to certain drugs.

In addition, despite the genetic deletion, the female deletion mice have higher levels of ERK1 than the male deletion mice.

The team then bred the mice and checked their offspring for DNA mutations.The mice born to males that breathed unfiltered air had up to 2.8 times more mutations in particular stretches of noncoding DNA than did mice with fathers that breathed filtered air, or clean air at a rural site.

The duration (20 minutes) used in the current study was based on previous work by our group demonstrating attenuation of age - related bone loss in male mice (36), but this duration is also less than the 60 - minute protocol shown to promote bone formation in the study by Jing et al. (44).

When the survival curve of males and females were plotted independently, the reduction in viability of p21 - null mice was more pronounced for females than for males (Fig. 1) ⇓.

When the researchers added cocaine to injured mouse brains, they found that male mice with concussions had more dopamine building up in between cells than did females or non-injured mice.

Bar Harbor, Maine — A research team led by Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Professor David Harrison, Ph.D., reports that acarbose, a drug that is frequently prescribed in Europe for type 2 diabetes, extends the lifespan of mice, with male mice showing a more pronounced effect than the females.

In related research, also reported in Aging Cell, the researchers at the three institutions also showed recently that the lifespan - extending effects of rapamycin vary with both dosage of the drug and gender of the mice, with greater effect in females than maleIn related research, also reported in Aging Cell, the researchers at the three institutions also showed recently that the lifespan - extending effects of rapamycin vary with both dosage of the drug and gender of the mice, with greater effect in females than malein Aging Cell, the researchers at the three institutions also showed recently that the lifespan - extending effects of rapamycin vary with both dosage of the drug and gender of the mice, with greater effect in females than malein females than males.

7/5/2007 Why Liver Cancer Is More Prevalent in Males than in Females Production of a protein that promotes inflammation appears to be linked to the higher incidence of liver cancer in men than in women, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have determined in mouse studies.

Although body weight was not different, liver weights were significantly higher (P < 0.01) in 15 - mo - old mice derived from IVC in the presence of FCS than in control animals (Supplemental Table S2); this phenotype was transmitted to F1 and F2 males derived from F0 IVC males but was not transmitted to F1 females.

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