If sufficient 1,25 - dihydroxyvitamin D is produced, it may exert paracrine effects on surrounding T lymphocytes, thereby regulating the tissue - specific immune responses.10 Some support for this hypothesis comes from recent experiments showing that mice fed diets high in vitamin D had significantly fewer clinical and pathological signs of EAE
than mice fed a vitamin D — deficient diet.37 Central nervous system levels of 1,25 - dihydroxyvitamin D, but not blood levels, were higher in supplemented mice than in vitamin D — deficient mice and correlated inversely with disease severity.
During this period, the mice on the high - fat diet gained 30 to 50 percent more body mass
than mice fed a normal diet, and they developed more intestinal tumors than mice on a normal diet.
Mice fed a high - fat diet rejected their heart transplants faster
than mice fed a lower - fat diet.
In fact, cancer - prone mice fed a diet of 10 percent powdered purple tomato lived significantly longer
than mice fed regular tomatoes, the scientists reported.
Laboratory mice that have received rapamycin have reduced the age - dependent decline in spontaneous activity, demonstrated more fitness, improved cognition and cardiovascular health, had less cancer and lived substantially longer
than mice fed a normal diet.
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.
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.
On measuring the males, they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier
than those of
mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier
than those of junk - eating males.
The maximum life span of a normally
fed lab
mouse is a little more
than three years.
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.
Spinal cord neuropathology showed higher pathology scores in demyelination, meningitis, perivascular cuffing (inflammation), and overall pathology in
mice that had been given resveratrol during the early phase compared with
mice fed a control diet, whereas
mice treated with resveratrol during the entire treatment period had significantly higher pathology scores in meningitis and overall pathology
than controls.
Food - restricted
mice avoided shocks much less frequently
than fed mice, continuing to seek food even after being shown the visual cue associated with shock.
On the other hand, as they aged, these «knockout
mice» grew fatter
than the normal
mice, especially when
fed a high - fat diet.
Fat
mice fed huge quantities of it lived longer and aged more slowly
than normal.
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.
Although these
mice are smaller
than their normally
fed peers, they seem to retain their youthfulness and intellects well into their extended old age.
The treated
mice also grew fatter
than the untreated
mice when both were
fed a high - fat diet.
What the researchers found was that
mice fed a diet with either of the soybean oils had worse fatty liver, glucose intolerance and obesity
than the group that got all their fat from coconut oil.
When the team
fed mice a high - fat diet for 18 weeks, those also given aspartame put on more weight
than those that weren't.
«Our previous results on
mice showed that replacing some of the fat in a diet high in saturated fats from coconut oil with soybean oil — to achieve a level common in the American diet — causes significantly more weight gain, adiposity, diabetes and insulin resistance
than in
mice fed just the high - fat coconut oil diet,» Sladek said.
The
mice that were
fed a calorie - restricted diet, mainly by a reduction in their carbohydrate intake, over a period of six months, had fewer disease symptoms
than their normal - diet counterparts.
Mice engineered to lack REG3G and fed alcohol for eight weeks were more susceptible to bacterial migration from the gut to the liver than normal mice who received the same amount of alco
Mice engineered to lack REG3G and
fed alcohol for eight weeks were more susceptible to bacterial migration from the gut to the liver
than normal
mice who received the same amount of alco
mice who received the same amount of alcohol.
The older
mice fed a diet containing extra amounts of vitamin E, the equivalent to about 200 IU / day consumed by humans — about 10 times the Recommended Daily Allowance but well below the upper limit — were far more resistant to the bacteria
than the older
mice that had a normal amount of vitamin E in their diet.
Liang thinks rats make better models of human
feeding behaviors
than mice because rats are bigger mammals and eat significantly more
than mice, making it easier to measure their food intake.
Mice fed this high - fat diet sweetened with sucralose got no fatter
than did those
fed the plain version.
In a follow - up study, Pickens et al. showed that despite inducing the same overall level of hepatic fat accumulation, fructose was more effective
than glucose at inducing hepatocellular injury in
mice fed MCD diets for 21 days (16).
Mice were caged in groups of no more
than five,
fed mouse chow and given water ad libitum, and provided huts, bedding and chewable items for enrichment.
Some studies have identified a number of regions of methylated DNA (one key way in which epigenetic changes occur) that are different in fat cells of
mice fed high - fat diets
than in cells of
mice with normal diets.
Over an eight - week period, a control group of
mice fed a high - fat diet predictably became obese, but the
mice whose Hedgehog pathway had been activated didn't gain any more weight
than another control group
fed on a normal diet.
But the
mice were
fed food containing higher -
than - normal levels of the heavy isotope so that when the
mice ate this food, their bodies absorbed the nitrogen isotopes and used it for several purposes, including to make GFAP molecules.
Mouse feeding tests show GM technology is a safer way of delivering protection of crops from insects with the Bt - protein insect
than is the traditional delivery method.
pair
fed mice gain considerably more weight as fat
than controls eating the same quantity of food
When homozygous C57BL / 6 - Fabp 4 - knockout
mice (B6 - Fabp4 - / --RRB- are
fed a high fat diet, they gain even more weight
than wild - type B6 DIO
mice.
This type of eating plan has shown promise in animal studies;
mice who are
fed time - restricted diets tend to lose more body fat and have lower risk of chronic diseases
than those whose meals are more spaced out.
The results showed a reduction of symptoms in the
mice who were
fed with a ketogenic diet: they had normalized their social interactions and spatial working memory and they also weighed less and had lower blood glucose levels
than the first group who was on a regular diet.
In a study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry,
mice fed a high - fat diet along with acetic acid — vinegar's key component — developed up to 10 % less body fat
than control rodents.
Another study discovered that
mice fed with thylakoid - enhanced diets had lower body weight and decreased fat mass
than mice who ate a diet free of thylakoids.
The chronically stressed
mice had decreased immune function and experienced tumor development significantly earlier
than the non-stressed
mice.16 Other
mouse studies of ovarian cancer showed that chronic stress resulted in increased cancer growth as well as increased angiogenesis, the process with which cancer forms new blood vessels to
feed itself nutrients for growth and metastases.17 Chronic stress has also been shown to decrease our body's ability to mount an attack against foreign invaders, including viruses.18 As we know that several viruses can cause cancer (HPV and cervical cancer, and EBV and nasopharyngeal cancer), we can extrapolate that any decrease in immune function could increase cancer risk.
Animal studies have shown that
mice fed a carb - free diet survived highly aggressive metastatic cancer even better
than those treated with chemotherapy
...
mice fed with Lactobacillus rhamnosus JB - 1 showed significantly fewer stress, anxiety and depression - related behaviours
than those
fed with just broth.
Research on rats showed a doubling of cancer cells in
mice that were
fed with yogurt is more constrained
than mice without the yogurt.
The aim of this was to find out whether the
mice receiving antioxidants would live longer
than a group of
mice that were not
fed any antioxidants.
In a study done by scientists at Canada's British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, it was found that
mice fed on a high - protein, low - carbohydrate diet had slower tumour cell growth
than those
fed a typical Western diet high in carbohydrates.
The control
mice are normal
mice, eating as much as they will; the pair -
fed mice are normal
mice eating a normal diet, but only as much as the leucine - deprived
mice chose to eat; the leucine deprived
mice ate as much as they wanted, but they chose to eat 15 percent less
than the control
mice, (thus, the pair -
fed also ate 15 percent less
than control, but it was a diet that contained a normal amount of leucine).
According to one study,
mice that had been supplemented with maca for five weeks showed far better coordination, spatial learning and memory
than those
fed a normal diet.
I hate to criticize Segel and Stoller for not being Henson, but that's what they had to live up to; the Muppets require more specialized care and
feeding than, say, Mickey
Mouse.
Mom still
feeds us morning and evening,»cause the cat food has a lot more nutrients
than just
mice.