Sentences with phrase «than normal mouse brains»

But when they looked at the activity in the bad NMDA channels, they found more in HD mouse brains than normal mouse brains.

When the mice died at 31 weeks, their brains had 20 % fewer neurons than normal mouse brains in regions that Huntington's strikes in people.

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.

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

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When they next measured responses in the auditory regions of the brain, a more sensitive test, the mice responded to much quieter sounds: 19 of 25 mice heard sounds quieter than 80 decibels, and a few could heard sounds as soft as 25 - 30 decibels, like normal mice.

To investigate the longer - term effects of higher - than - normal acetylcholine levels on the brain, Hermona Soreq of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her colleagues first induced high levels of acetylcholine by forcing 26 mice to swim, an activity stressful to mice.

Removing a single gene from the brains of mice and zebrafish causes these animals to become more anxious than normal.

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.

The brains of the mice were smaller than normal and had fewer neurons in areas that controlled the affected behaviors.

To see what was happening in the brains of these ankyrin - G mutant mice, the researchers analyzed the cell components in inhibitory synapses connecting with pyramidal neurons, finding that two proteins known as GAT1 and GAD67 — responsible for making the neurochemical GABA that dials back nerve impulses — were at much lower levels in the synapses on pyramidal neurons in ankyrin - G mutant mice than in normal mice.

The researchers measured 40 % more of the enzyme PDE4A5 in the brains of sleep - deprived mice than in normal mouse brains.

Mice with a single missing gene have brains that are 35 percent larger than normal, a new study found.