Sentences with phrase «transplant from normal mice»

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To see whether it was a true functional organ, his team transplanted the small thymus from normal mice into mutant, thymus - free animals.

Faustman got her idea by chance while transplanting islets, the pancreatic bodies that contain beta cells, from normal mice into others that had lost theirs to type 1, or juvenile, diabetes.

When bacteria from these «clockless» mice were transplanted into healthy animals living in normal light - dark conditions, the microbes began to show normal rhythms within a week.

This decrease in circulating miRNAs could be restored when the investigators transplanted normal fat into these mice, a result indicating that many of the microRNAs in circulation were coming from fat.

Raised in a germ - free environment, and then given a transplant of gut microbes from a four - day - old normal mouse, these mouse were still able to resist Salmonella infection without any help from their immune system — but only when they had received a dose of added Clostridium first.

Left: The gut of a mouse that received a transplant of microbes from the gut of four - day - old normal mice, and then was exposed to Salmonella, while the other received a transplant of the four - day - old mouse microbes along with added Clostridia bacteria, before being exposed to Salmonella.

With no natural gut bacteria of their own, the mice offered a unique chance to see the effects of transplanted microbes from normal mice of different ages, and to test vulnerability to infection.

The reason for this response, Gordon says, was twofold: Firmicutes bacteria transplanted from the fat mice produced more of the enzymes that helped the animals extract more energy from their food, and the bacteria also manipulated the genes of the normal mice in ways that triggered the storage of fat rather than its breakdown for energy.