Sentences with phrase «with the rodent equivalent»

Virgin first infected mice with the rodent equivalent of these two herpes strains and then exposed them to two types of bacteria: Listeria monocytogenes, a common cause of food poisoning, and Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.

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In these reviewed studies, rodents given paracetamol during pregnancy, at doses equivalent to those that a pregnant woman may take for pain relief, produced female offspring with fewer eggs.

After being injected with a muscle - preserving gene, some of these mighty rodents maintained the muscles of youthful mice, at the human equivalent of age 80, without exercise [source: Cromie].