Sentences with phrase «wild mice shows»

Now, a new study of wild mice shows that they, too, can develop signs of domestication — white fur patches and short snouts — with hardly any human influence.

Not exact matches

This study, «Engineered epidermal progenitor cells can correct diet - induced obesity and diabetes,» is the first to show that an engineered skin graft can survive long term in wild - type mice with intact immune systems.

Researchers aware of this reality have now shown that transplanting gut bacteria from wild mice into «clean» lab mice has made those rodents less likely to die from the flu or develop cancer.

When other scientists tried to repeat the maze trials that showed a difference between the wild and humanized mice, however, they, too, found no difference in learning abilities.

The treatment was shown to improve long - term memory performance of APP / PS1 and wild - type mice.

Next, they showed that deer mice and oldfield mice build the same kinds of burrows in the lab as in the wild — two very different environments.

Among transgenic mice on the experimental diets, the mice on the Fortasyn diet performed equally well as the wild - type mice, whereas other dietary treatments showed no improvement.

The wild - type mice didn't develop colitis, but showed low - grade inflammation in their intestines and several features of metabolic syndrome: slight weight gain, increased body fat and food intake, and higher blood sugar levels, which indicate poor glucose regulation associated with diabetes.

A study by Stephen Abolins, Mark Viney and colleagues of the immune ecology of wild house mice — the same species as the lab mouse — shows that their immune state is promoted by individuals» body condition and constrained by their age.

A team led by parasitologist Stefan Kappe at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle in Washington gave a rodent version of this «genetically attenuated parasite,» or GAP, to mice and showed that they were completely protected when later infected with an unmodified — or wild - type — version of the same Plasmodium strain.

However, I did obtain a number of female Z116A transgenic mice that were heterozygous for the myostatin mutation, and as shown in Table 1 and Figure 2a, these mice exhibited further increases in muscle weights compared to Z116A mice that were wild type for myostatin.

Numbers represent percent increases relative to wild type mice and were calculated from the data shown in Table 1.

As shown in Table 1, the presence of one or two Mstn mutant alleles in combination with the F66 transgene resulted in increasingly more muscle mass than seen in F66 transgenic mice that were wild type for Mstn.

As shown in Table 1, all four lines exhibited significant increases in muscle weights compared to wild type control mice.

Histopathological examination of rejected corneal allografts in CD4 KO mice revealed a mixed inflammatory infiltrate containing large numbers of neutrophils and mononuclear cells, which was indistinguishable from the infiltrate seen in rejected corneal allografts in wild - type mice (data not shown).

Additionally, diabetic mice genetically modified to lack PKal showed far less retinal blood vessel leakage than wild - type mice.

As a control, irradiation of wild - type mice resulted in 100 % mortality after a period of 9 months after irradiation, when the mice were 11 months old (Fig. 3 ⇓ shows the survival curve of the females alone for the purpose of simplifying the discussion below); and mortality was mainly attributable to the development of T - cell lymphomas (Table 3) ⇓.

Given that our wild type B. burgdorferi acquired by xenodiagnostic ticks retain the ability to express ospC (also shown by RT - PCR in Fig 4), we can not rule out the possibility that a tick midgut - adapted phenotype, in the absence of salivation and feeding, contributed to the failure of the B. burgdorferi acquired from XT to infect SCID mice.

We show that PC1 is ubiquitously and incompletely cleaved in wild - type mice, so that uncleaved and cleaved PC1 molecules coexist.

The next slide actually shows you one of the slides from this publication, showing you that this is the wild - type mice; males on the left and females on the right.

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.

mice show significant increase in relative and absolute hepatic weight compared to wild - type; otherwise, no differences from wild - type are noted

Consistent with this finding, enumeration of annexin V + DCs and active Caspase - 3 + DCs in spleen cell suspensions failed to show differences in their frequency in wild - type and EBI2 - deficient mice (not shown).

A very neat paper shows that transgenic mice made to overexpress a certain hormone live much longer than wild type mice: The starvation hormone, fibroblast growth factor - 21, extends lifespan in mice.

A very neat paper shows that transgenic mice made to overexpress a certain hormone live much longer than wild -LSB-...]