Sentences with phrase «took normal mice»

When the scientists took normal mice and temporarily reduced cholesterol creation in the hypothalamus with a technique known as RNA interference, the animals started eating more and gained significant weight.

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Strikingly, the drug - taking mice's blood cholesterol levels also returned to normal.

In order to generate enough energy, the bone cells in our mice therefore take up much more glucose than normal.»

Tissue taken from mice with the C. elegans gene had significantly higher levels of omega - 3 acids compared with that of normal animals, the team found.

Her team took purified extracts of the miRNA from stressed mice and injected them into normal embryos.

For instance, they took just half the time of normal mice to venture into new avenues and well - lit spaces, yet gave up far sooner in a swimming endurance test.

The neurons were taken from normal mice.

Ward's lab team took skin tissue samples from her well - established psoriasis transgenic mouse model, called the KC - Tie2 mouse, and compared it to skin tissue samples of normal mice.

Skin injuries in mice that have been bred to lack DETCs take much longer than normal to heal.

For instance, they took just half the time of normal mice to venture into new avenues and lighted spaces, yet gave up far sooner in a swimming endurance test.

The AS mice took longer to learn this task, but AS mice with reduced levels of the Na / K - ATPase subunit learned the task as fast as normal mice.

Those mice showed the expected signs of anxiety, such as moving around less open spaces and taking longer to start eating in new environments as compared with normal animals.

Nunez, Kim, Sakamoto and their colleagues carried out a careful series of experiments using both newborn and adult germ - free mice, and samples of gut microbes taken from the feces of 4 - day - old, 12 - day - old and 16 - day - old normal mice.

But non-transgenic, normal mice have severe limitations: the animals take nearly a year to develop signs of the disease, they develop it only sporadically, and acquire it only when exposed to high levels of prions.

So far, it's worked on adult mice, taking them from heart failure to nearly normal.

* Oddly enough, however, the experiments with fresh pancreatic islets and fat cells taken from the mice suggested that the positive effects of uncarboxylated osteocalcin on insulin only occurred at concentrations extremely low compared to those of undercarboxylated osteocalcin normally present in mice, while the effects on adiponectin and energy expenditure only occurred at normal to high concentrations.

mouse studies, macrophages taken from obese mice were less receptive to insulin than normal (in other words insulin resistant to a degree).

The G703 and G903 mice are both Powerplay - compatible, but you can also buy or use a G703 or G903 separately — they both ship with Logitech's standard wireless mouse dongles, can be charged through USB like normal wireless mice, and store a charge if you take them off the Powerplay mousepad.

In this mode, the W500 functions just like a normal laptop — you can move the mouse with the integrated trackpoint, type comfortably, and take advantage of a few extra ports, like Ethernet and two additional USBs.