In their studies on mice, they used chemicals and antibodies to block the activity of LOXL2.
This was not unexpected based on previous research on mice and monkeys, he added.
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The researchers, who worked on mice, transplanted fat from one part of the animals' body to the other.
The first tests were on mice when they were six weeks old, after signs of PMD had already emerged.
In experiments on mice infected with scrapie, the Swiss, American and British researchers managed to deactivate the signalling cell.
In tests on mice, the drug increases tolerance to radiation by about 25% with few side effects, he says.
In this study, the researchers tested the skin patch on mice with an age-related brain degeneration similar to Alzheimer's.
The scientists used tests on mice to determine whether a defect in this gene is enough to trigger DCM.
The question is whether they will have the same slimming effect on people as they have done on mice.
Researchers used a ginkgo preparation from Germany, and tested it on mice in which a stroke had been induced.
Experiments on mice have shown that eating significantly less food can extend lifespans, so long as the food is highly nutritious.
In support of this hypothesis, the researchers point to studies on mice whose leptin receptors have been broken by genetic mutations.
But he warned that the success in the trial on mice did not necessarily mean the same results would be found in humans.
The bigger issue with nanoparticles is that they might pose health risks, as they have been found to in tests on mice.
Tests on mice and humans, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, showed that immune cells became destructive when they were clogged with fats.
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Working on mice, they showed that DISC1 was active, both in cells taken from embryos and in brain stem cells taken from adult mice.
Jo Lo Turco of the University of Connecticut, who also attended the meeting, did a similar test on mice that had genetically induced ectopias.
Their experiments on mice showed the virus impaired the ability of a specific part of the immune system, called regulatory T cells, to calm inflammation.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, in Germany, performed a trial on mice with the disease and fed them a high cholesterol diet.
Not everyone is convinced, but Dr Sinclair has done experiments on mice that look promising, and has started a company called Sirtris Pharmaceuticals to follow it up.
Harvard University researchers conducted experiments on mice using oligomers, a soluble form of amyloid-beta protein, which is the key compound in brain plaque and a hallmark of Alzheimer's.
First, Dr Zhu tried it out on mice (the mice in question had had their immune systems turned off, so that they would not reject the transplanted cells).
The markings have been blamed variously on mice, on a weather balloon trailing lines and tackle, and most amusingly on a kangaroo that may have escaped from a local zoo.
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Recent tests on mice found that those who eat when they would normally be asleep put on more weight than others who had meals at normal times, according to a study in the journal Obesity.
The studies, one on mice and one on people, have identified two hormones that seem to fine-tune the perception of sweetness, and thus regulate the intake of sugar independently of the previously known mechanism of satiation that is located in the brain.
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Scientists then tested a class of drugs called histone deacetylase, or HDAC, inhibitors on the mice.
Officials have focused on deer mice, common in the high-elevation eastern Sierra Nevada region.
The upshot was that in mosquitoes fed on the mice carrying the mammalian parasite, the SM1 gene had no advantage.
Colnbrook Food And Wines in Slough is shut until further notice after a customer who bought a loaf of bread chewed on by mice alerted the council.
The research team led by Fatima Bosch, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UAB, studied the effects of a protein called IGF-I on the mice.
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