The scientists of the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute at McMaster University discovered that mice that harboured in their gut the opportunistic bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Psa) isolated from celiac patients, metabolized gluten differently
than mice treated with Lactobacillus, often used as probiotics.
The researchers showed that female mice swabbed with HSV - 2 and an ointment containing ZOTEN had significantly fewer genital lesions
than mice treated with a cream lacking ZOTEN.
Not exact matches
Both TRPV1 / WT and KO
mice treated with capsaicin and TPA together exhibited higher COX - 2 protein levels
than groups
treated with TPA alone (Fig. 2A), and tumors from TRPV1 / KO
mice expressed the highest level of COX - 2 as a result of treatment with capsaicin and TPA together (Fig. 2A).
Residual tumors, spawned from the remaining cancer cells, were 3.5 times smaller in the
treated mice than in untreated
mice.
The team found that humans are equipped with tiny differences in a particular regulator of gene activity, dubbed HARE5, that when introduced into a
mouse embryo, led to a 12 % bigger brain
than in the embryos
treated with the HARE5 sequence from chimpanzees.
The
mice treated with rapamycin also ended up with better quality memory T - cells
than the control
mice.
LIPINDORA was given to near - term pregnant
mice and the researchers found that the
treated mice were significantly less likely
than controls to have preterm uterine contractions or to deliver prematurely.
«What we found was, if we block mGluR5, which is the glutamate receptor we're interested in, the
mice become hyper locomotive so they become able to move better
than wild type
mice suggesting glutamate receptors might be a good target for
treating movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
The boost in survival time allowed the
mice to live roughly 25 percent longer
than those
treated with radiation alone.
Dwarki notes that the weight has stayed off the
treated mice for more
than 8 months.
When we
treat mice with resveratrol, it doesn't do anything other
than make them sick.»
In the knockout
mice, the virus replicated to higher levels
than in those
treated with the antibody, killing most of the fetuses.
Mice treated with antisense RNA (bottom) produced more dystrophin — colored red in this image — than did control mice (t
Mice treated with antisense RNA (bottom) produced more dystrophin — colored red in this image —
than did control
mice (t
mice (top).
Mice treated with these viruses were less sensitive to painful stimuli
than their untreated counterparts.
They plan to further optimize their protocol and follow their
treated mice to see if they retain hearing longer
than the two months already observed.
«We also carried out behavioral assessments which showed the
treated mice spent more time on running wheels
than the
mice who aged without intervention.»
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.
The
treated mice developed much less severe symptoms and staved off illness for a longer period of time
than did those that didn't receive the treatment.
They found that the phages from antibiotic -
treated mice carried significantly higher numbers of bacterial drug - resistance genes
than they would have carried by chance.
Treating mice with CK2 - ASO or housing them at 17 degrees C (62.6 degrees F) each prevented more
than 25 percent of this weight gain.
DNA comparisons showed that
mice treated with antibiotics had a higher proportion of bacteria belonging to the group Firmicutes
than control animals.
When they were
treated with leptin over the course of two days, control animals that weren't exposed to either chemical lost more weight
than BPA - or DES - exposed
mice.
When the
mice were
treated with the anthracycline doxorubicin, they survived more
than normal
mice and their heart function was completely preserved.
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.
In 2009, US scientists discovered another effect:
Mice treated with rapamycin lived longer
than their untreated counterparts.
The
treated mice lived an average of 36 days longer
than untreated
mice, and they were better at building nests, which reflects a combination of social behavior, cognitive performance and motor capabilities.
Importantly, levels of total tau and tau tangles in the brains of
treated 12 - month - old
mice were lower
than in untreated 9 - month - old
mice, suggesting that the treatment not only had stopped but reversed the buildup of tau.
When they exposed the
treated mice to the influenza virus, the animals recovered from the illness even better
than healthy
mice infected with flu that had not undergone the treatment.
Mice treated with such combination therapy survived significantly longer than mice just treated with the Angiopoietin - 2 antib
Mice treated with such combination therapy survived significantly longer
than mice just treated with the Angiopoietin - 2 antib
mice just
treated with the Angiopoietin - 2 antibody.
Surprisingly, while neither form of chemotherapy had any effect on the growth of these seeded metastases, Angiopoietin - 2 antibody
treated mice had significantly less metastases in the lungs and in the bone and survived longer
than untreated control
mice.
The researchers discovered that
mice inoculated with bacteria from the antibiotic -
treated donors were indeed fatter
than the germ - free
mice inoculated with bacteria from untreated donors.
Cortical bone — one of the two types of bone tissue — was stronger in the
treated mice than the controls, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The
treated mice also grew fatter
than the untreated
mice when both were fed a high - fat diet.
These types of engineered tumors are much more difficult to
treat than human tumors implanted in
mice, because they suppress the immune response against them.
When researchers in Paul Kellam's group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute exposed
mice treated with Amphotericin - B to influenza A virus, the animals became very ill and lost more
than 25 percent of their body weight.
Four weeks after transplanting these cells into the kidney cavities of
mice with a form of kidney anaemia, the
treated animals had blood EPO levels 20 times higher
than those in controls (Science Translational Medicine, doi.org/cdmx).
In
mice, the skin lesions that were
treated with the nanosponge - hydrogel were significantly smaller
than those that were left untreated.
The discovery may help explain why humans evolved more elaborate brains
than mice, and it could suggest ways to
treat disorders such as autism and epilepsy that arise from abnormal neural development.
Acute alcohol -
treated FOXO3 - deficient
mice developed more severe liver injury
than that of wild - type
mice, and this was attributed to decreased expression of autophagy - related genes.
The Wnt -
treated mice had three - and - a-half times more bone in the injury site after 72 hours
than the
mice that received only saline, the team reports today in Science Translational Medicine.
Jaenisch's study comes hard on the heels of experiments in which
mice with a Parkinson's - like condition were successfully
treated using genetically - matched neurons created by cloning, rather
than genetic reprogramming.
Female
mice and male
mice that had been
treated with estrogen were able to clear the bacteria from their lungs more rapidly
than normal male
mice.
In
mice, the dose required for contraception was 10 times lower
than that required for
treating Gaucher's disease patients.
The
treated mice were able to run longer, maxing out at 15 minutes,
than untreated ill animals, which managed only 10 minutes before becoming exhausted, the researchers report.
Last, spontaneous cage activity was more
than 6-fold greater in IL - 15Rα — KO
mice compared with B6129 control
mice, and this amount of cage running activity was greater
than that noted in other
mouse models, including the HIF - 1α — KO
mouse (45) and
mice treated with PPAR agonists (46).
The experimental drug activated maternal PWS genes, and the
treated mice had better growth and weight gain
than untreated
mice, with 15 percent surviving to adulthood without serious side effects.
When the researchers administered daily doses of BCX to
mice before and after they injected the rodents with a nicotine - derived carcinogen, they found that the
mice treated with BCX had fewer lung tumors
than those that got no BCX.
The antibiotic -
treated mice also showed more
than a two-fold decrease in Aß plaques compared to controls, and a significant elevation in the inflammatory state of microglia in the brain.
By day 60, the average tumor volume in
mice treated with tamoxifen plus CDB4124 was 70 percent lower
than the original tumors.
One caveat is that actually, the untreated
mice lived a little bit shorter
than they «should» have by historical precedent, and the
treated mice only lived as long as they «should.»