Sentences with phrase «than normal mice do»

At the same time, the rodents had an even greater response to social defeat stress than normal mice do, suggesting their brains also are more susceptible to a depressive - like state.

Researchers led by Emory University pathologist Andrew Gewirtz found that mice genetically deficient in an immune system receptor have altered gut bacteria, eat more than normal mice do, and develop features of metabolic syndrome.

The NK1R - deficient mice consumed far less alcohol — especially later in the trial when alcohol concentration was higher — than the normal mice did.

Chen and colleagues report online today in Science that mice without GRPR neurons scratched significantly less than normal mice did — about 80 % less in each case.

The quest for better opioids got a much - needed jolt in 1999, when researchers at Duke University showed that mice lacking a protein called beta - arrestin 2 got more pain relief from morphine than normal mice did.

Gordon and his team found several years ago that genetically obese mice (the animals lacked the ability to make leptin, a hormone that limits appetite) had 50 percent fewer Bacteroidetes bacteria and 50 percent more Firmicutes bacteria than normal mice did.

Not exact matches

These mice performed better than their normal counterparts on learning tests well into old age, and their brains did not exhibit the decline in neurogenesis typically seen in aged mice.

Normal mice saw benefits, too: Muscles and pancreas cells healed better in middle - aged mice that got rejuvenation treatments than in mice that did not.

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In general, the mutant mice also had much thicker skin than the normal animals did.

In subsequent tests, the mice with the mutation did a worse job than normal mice at learning new motor skills.

Furthermore, more than 75 % of mice infected with virus bearing the normal protein developed severe corneal autoimmune disease, whereas fewer than 20 % of mice infected with mutant virus did, and their symptoms were barely detectable.

The mice appear younger and more robust than comparably - aged normal mice, have better muscle tone, and do not develop age - related tumors.

When they exposed these mice to the cold, the animals developed far fewer beige fat cells than did normal animals, suggesting that macrophages were key to browning of white fat.

At 14 months, however, the J20 / caspase -2 null mice did significantly better in the water maze test than the J20 mice and similarly to the normal mice.

Normal mice produced more than four times more melanocytes than did the p53 «knockout» mice.

He notes, however, that other attempts to stimulate bone growth in mice by manipulating cell signaling proteins have produced denser than normal bones — and he's surprised that Helms's team didn't see the same.

Although muscle cells did not reduce in size or number in mice lacking a protective antioxidant protein, they were weaker than normal muscle cells, researchers from the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio found.

Results showed the first two groups didn't develop PCOS, unlike the mice in the control group, whereas the test subjects with ovary ARs still contracted the disease, albeit at a lower rate than the normal mice.

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.

Remarkably, outcomes following loss of the switch mirrored what the group had previously observed when they physically removed the gene itself: the lungs of mutant mice contained many more melanoma cells than did lungs of normal mice.