Sentences with phrase «young mice genetically»

Plasma from old mice didn't have a strong effect when injected into young mice genetically engineered to lack VCAM1 in certain blood - brain barrier cells.

Researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a prostate cancer vaccine that prevented cancer in 90 percent of young mice genetically predestined to develop the disease.

Not exact matches

Irina Conboy, a neurologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues have performed extensive parabiosis experiments stitching together young and old mice that have been genetically matched.

One mode of aging transmission is to give genetically identical mice transfusions of young or old blood.

Yang's group took advantage of genetically engineered young mice that have protein markers which glow in response to changes in nerve function.

For example, Young's research shows normally monogamous prairie voles do not develop pair bonds with their mates if their mu - opioid system is blocked; other studies have found that mice genetically engineered to have no mu - opioid receptors do not prefer their mothers to other mice the way normal baby mice do.

The investigators could compare the insulin - producing beta cells from these mice with those from younger, genetically identical mice to examine the characteristics of the cells across the mouse lifespan.

To do that, he and his colleagues are studying 32 lines of genetically - defined young, middle - aged and old mice.