Sentences with phrase «transplanted fecal material»

In the first study, researchers transplanted fecal material from both exercised and sedentary mice into mice with sterile guts.

In the first study, scientists transplanted fecal material from exercised and sedentary mice into the colons of sedentary germ - free mice, which had been raised in a sterile facility and had no microbiota of their own.

In additional tests, the scientists found they could restore the norovirus infections by transplanting fecal material from untreated mice into mice that earlier had been treated with the antibiotics.

Not exact matches

The procedure, which has a 90 percent success rate, transplants the fecal microbial ecosystem from a healthy person into a sick one, often using a colonoscope for inserting the material, to restore a healthy equilibrium.

Physicians have discovered that transplanting screened and processed fecal material from a healthy donor into the colon of a sick patient can cure C. difficile infection in 90 % of cases.