Part of the problem, he says, is that the incidence of many human chronic diseases rises with age, yet many researchers prefer
using young mice because of the pressures of being published and getting funding.
Since most grants are usually only for a four - to five - year period,
using younger mice is not only less expensive, but it avoids the delay of waiting for an animal to age.
Not exact matches
Call me unambitious but I will always say the league cup is not worth the hassle, its I Micky
mouse cup that should only be
used to test
young players I didn't want us to win it against Chelsea or Birmingham I fact I was partly cheering for the bromies we should be focusing on the league and maybe the F.A cup.
They began by adding one of three commonly
used sweeteners — saccharin, sucralose or aspartame — to the drinking water of healthy
young mice.
The result is a repulsive effect, which was
used by Yuanming Liu and colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to lift a
young mouse weighing 10 grams.
Using a surgical technique called parabiosis to join the circulatory system of a
young mouse with that of an old one, the researchers studied the effects of
young blood on elderly cells, and vice versa.
To answer this question, Ding decided to
use a cousin of the Flock house virus — Nodamura virus — that is lethal to
young mice.
This visual abstract represents the findings of Thevaranjan et al. who,
using young and old germ - free and conventional
mice, demonstrate that age - related microbiota changes drive intestinal permeability, age - associated inflammation, and decreased macrophage function.
Changes in muscle repair with aging were determined by injecting the old
mice and
young mice (neither group exercised) with snake venom commonly
used to induce muscle injury in rodent studies.
Samantha de Silva and colleagues
used a viral vector to express a light sensitive protein, melanopsin, in the residual retinal cells in
mice which were blind from retinitis pigmentosa, the most common cause of blindness in
young people.
The researchers harvested satellite cells from both healthy and injured muscle tissue of
young mice and from healthy tissue of old
mice; extracted these cells» DNA with the histone coatings intact; and
used tagged antibodies targeting the different kinds of marks to find which spots on those histones were flagged with either «stop» or «go» signals.
Bottom Line:
Young mice that received molecularly targeted therapies
used to treat brain cancer in human patients sustained cognitive and behavioral deficits, but the deficits were largely reversible through environmental stimulation and physical exercise.
Using a technique called parabiosis, in which the vascular systems of two
mice are surgically connected, Villeda's lab had previously discovered that infusing old
mice with the blood of
younger mice leads to brain rejuvenation, including improvements in learning and memory, while infusions of old blood cause premature brain aging in
young mice.
To find out if the loss of Tet2 in aging could directly cause cognitive decline, the researchers
used a technique called RNAi to block Tet2 activity in the hippocampi of
young adult
mice.
Using young and aged transgenic
mice and human - derived induced pluripotent stem cells, she will examine the effect of Alzheimer's - related mutations on translation and protein expression.
Defining the range of pathogens susceptible to ifitm3 restriction
using a knockout
mouse model Everitt A. R., Clare S., McDonald J. U., Kane L., Harcourt K., Ahras M., Lall A., Hale C., Rodgers A.,
Young D. B., Haque A., Billker O., Tregoning J. S., Dougan G., Kellam P. Plos one, 2013 8 (11): e80723.
The
mice used by Plessy et al. were
younger than
used here and their tissue was collected by laser capture microdissection which could result in incomplete sampling of the whole epithelium.
Greater running distance in the 2 - to 3 - month - old
mice may partially explain these data, but the solo - housed wild - type
mice used to test solo - versus group - housing (Fig. 5) ran similar distances as the
young mice, yet did not show any increase in brain progranulin levels.
Using a surgical technique, the researchers introduced an experimental demyelinating injury in the spinal cord of an old
mouse, creating small areas of myelin loss, and then exposed those areas to cells found the blood of a
young mouse.
To compliment these behavioral outputs, we additionally performed Serial Two - Photon whole brain imaging and analysis of the distribution, size and density of Aβ - plaques in
young and aged AD
mice using the TissueCyte ® imaging platform.
We
used extracellular field potential recordings to study BST, short - term plasticity (PTP, post-tetanic potentiation; PPF, paired - pulse facilitation) and long - term potentiation (LTP) at the Schaffer collateral - CA1 pyramidal cell synapses in
young and old rTg4510 (2 - 3 and 6 - 7 month old) and old APP / PS1
mice (8 - 10 month old).
We here studied, in intact
young and aged adult
mice, drinking - water (1μM) estradiol effects on both retention and organizational components of hippocampus - dependent memory,
using a radial - maze task of everyday - like memory.
The
mice used in all these the studies were treated with memantine from a very
young age, and we don't know what would happen if the
mice received it only after they got sick - which is how most human patients are treated.
We explored how aging affects transcriptional dynamics
using single - cell RNA sequencing of unstimulated and stimulated naïve and effector memory CD4 (+) T cells from
young and old
mice from two divergent species.
Scientists were able to identify the influence caused by factors unique to the blood of
young mice, which could ultimately be
used as treatments for age - related neurodegenerative disorders.
(G and H) Muscle fibers were automatically identified on H&E - stained sections of quadriceps femoris muscle of the 16 - month (G;
young control, n = 786 muscle fibers from 5
mice; vehicle, n = 534 muscle fibers from 6
mice; rapamycin, n = 600 muscle fibers from 8
mice) and 25 - month (H;
young control, n = 330 muscle fibers from 6
mice; vehicle, n = 741 muscle fibers from 4
mice; rapamycin, n = 1,371 muscle fibers from 5
mice) cohorts
using image segmentation and analysis software.
«The
use of antibiotics in
young children might lead to a higher risk of obesity, and two new studies, one on
mice and one on humans, conclude that changes of the intestinal bacteria caused by antibiotics could be responsible.
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