News tagged with mutant mice
Regrowing hair: Researchers may have accidentally discovered a solution
It has been long known that stress plays a part not just in the graying of hair but in hair loss as well. Over the years, numerous hair-restoration remedies have emerged, ranging from hucksters' "miracle solvents" ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Nobel winner ties mental illness to immune defect
A Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between ...
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May 27, 2010 |
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Scientists create entirely new way to study brain function
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina have devised a chemical technique that promises to allow neuroscientists to discover the function of any population of neurons in an animal ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Some neural tube defects in mice linked to enzyme deficiency
Women of childbearing age can reduce the risk of having a child born with a neural tube defect such as spina bifida by eating enough folate or folic acid. However, folate prevents only about 70 percent of these defects.
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May 25, 2009 |
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US scientists sound alarm over animal research
Scientists who use monkeys, mice and dogs for research on human diseases fear that the US government is restructuring the massive National Institutes of Health in a way that could slash their funding.
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Aging human bodies and aging human oocytes run on different clocks
Reproductive and somatic aging use different molecular mechanisms that show little overlap between the types of genes required to keep oocytes healthy and the genes that generally extend life span, according to Coleen Murphy, ...
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Secretions of the mind
A molecule called calcium-dependent activator protein for secretion 2 (CAPS2) promotes the secretion of a neurotrophic factor that is critical for the proper development and survival of networks of interneurons ...
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Feb 25, 2011 |
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New year, new vitamin C discovery: It 'cures' mice with accelerated aging disease
A new research discovery published in the January 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal suggests that treatments for disorders that cause accelerated aging, particularly Werner's syndrome, might come straight from the fa ...
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Jan 04, 2010 |
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New insight into 'accelerated aging' disease
Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS or progeria) is a rare genetic disease that causes young children to develop symptoms associated with advanced age, such as baldness, wrinkles, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. ...
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Sep 13, 2010 |
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Study suggests link between metabolic disease, bone mass in mice
A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers has found that insulin, the sugar-regulating hormone, is required for normal bone development and that it may provide a link between bone health and metabolic disease, such as diabetes.
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Jul 22, 2010 |
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Mighty mice: Treatment targeted to muscle improves motor neuron disease
New research with transgenic mice reveals that a therapy directed at the muscle significantly improves disease symptoms of a genetic disorder characterized by destruction of the neurons that control movement. The study, published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Fox Chase researchers report that naproxen reduces tumors in a mouse model of colon cancer
Numerous studies show that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduce the risk of colon cancer. However, animal studies testing the NSAID naproxen or its derivative, NO-naproxen, have focused primarily on chemically-induced ...
Apr 06, 2011 |
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Researchers find novel role for calcium channels in pacemaker cell function
Pacemaker cells in the sinoatrial node control heart rate, but what controls the ticking of these pacemaker cells? New research by Angelo Torrente and his colleagues of the M.E. Mangoni group's, reveals, for the first time, ...
Mar 09, 2011 |
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In Brief: A week to forget your fears?
Studies with mice have demonstrated that fearful or traumatic memories can be extinguished -- often temporarily, but sometimes permanently.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 29, 2010 |
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New function for the protein Bcl-xL: It prevents bone breakdown
In blood cells, the protein Bcl-xL has a well-characterized role in preventing cell death by a process known as apoptosis. However, its function(s) in osteoclasts, cells that slowly breakdown bone (a process known as resorption), ...
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Sep 14, 2009 |
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