Isolated wild -
type mouse liver mitochondria efficiently imported those constructs that included the appended RP sequence, and cleaved their transcript terminus sequences in line with normal mRNA maturation.
Not exact matches
As a result, the intestinal wall becomes infected and inflamed, leaving the
mice susceptible to conditions as diverse as inflammatory bowel diseases, colon cancer,
Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and fatty
liver disease.
The tumors in Sand's lab might be explained by the high dose, the fact that the
mice were newborns, and the
type of
mouse, suggests Kay, who was involved with a past clinical trial administering AAV to the
liver to treat hemophilia.
Philip Laipis of the University of Florida, who has also observed tumors in AAV vector - treated
mice, agrees, at least for studies using a similarly high dose of AAV to target
liver cells, which are more likely than other cell
types to take up the AAV vector.
In the new study, the researchers found that the offspring of pregnant
mice that consumed a high - fat diet developed
liver fibrosis, a
type of tissue scarring that is a sign that more serious disease will develop.
However, chronic
liver inflammation in both
mice and humans also led to the accumulation of immunosuppressive lymphocytes, a
type of immune cell Karin and Shalapour first described two years ago.
A cocktail of human cell
types mixed in a dish (inset, left) spontaneously forms a three dimensional
liver bud (inset, right) which is transplanted into a
mouse for final development into a
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered evidence in
mice and humans that stomach (gastric) acid suppression alters specific gut bacteria in a way that promotes
liver injury and progression of three
types of chronic
liver disease.
These changes promoted
liver inflammation and
liver injury, increasing the progression of all three
types of
liver disease in the
mice: alcohol - induced
liver disease, NAFLD and NASH.
Compared with normal chow diet - fed
mice, the high - fat diet
mice showed worsened blood sugar, increased triglycerides, a
type of fat (lipid) in the blood, and a substantial increase in the numbers of CD8 + T cells in the
liver.
To test the effectiveness of the novel contrast agent, the team conducted imaging of
mice livers to detect the spread of a
type of melanoma.
Acute alcohol - treated FOXO3 - deficient
mice developed more severe
liver injury than that of wild -
type mice, and this was attributed to decreased expression of autophagy - related genes.
The scientists note that certain specialized
types of cells in the
liver could also have limited virus reproduction and put a damper on systemic inflammation and blood clotting problems in resistant
mice.
Further experiments identified new therapeutic options:
Mice that are unable to produce
Type - 1 interferon were protected against Listeria infection despite the migration of the gut bacteria into the
liver, because their immune cells didn't produce high levels of
Type - 1 interferon and IL - 10 after Listeria infection.
THS has been shown, in
mice, to cause
type 2 diabetes, hyperactivity,
liver and lung damage, and wound - healing complications.
Differential response of the
liver to bile acid treatment in a
mouse model of Niemann - Pick disease
type C
While scientists have successfully reprogrammed different
types of
mouse cells (fibroblasts,
liver and intestinal cells), skin fibroblasts were the only human cell
type they had ever tried their hands on.
By studying the stem cells in two
types of tissue, namely skin, muscle, and in
liver, in young (three months old) and aged (18 to 22 months old)
mice every four hours, «we observed that the core components of the circadian clock had no changes in their rhythm with age».
The
mice given the Nobiletin flavonoid avoided these issues, while those that did not became obese, developed
type 2 diabetes, and had atherosclerosis and fatty
liver issues.