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Stem cells offer hope for muscular dystrophy

...trophy. Their early work has shown some success in mice but they warned any real progress is years away. .../had been coaxed into strengthening the muscles of mice with muscular dystrophy. There are nine forms of muscular dystrophy, which affect 300,000 people i...

Key enzyme protects against Alzheimer's

...ory and mental ability. In studies of transgenic mice which lacked the Pin1 gene, the scientists also discovered that the deletion of the gene was enough to cause age-related brain changes in the animals. They uncovered an unexpected cancer connection too. In laboratory studies, Lu noticed that the enzy...

Tea Prevents Skin Cancer

... polyphenols help inhibit tumor growth. Studies in mice show green tea polyphenols block the skin’s response to UV light. Zigang Dong, M.D., from University of Minnesota in Austin’s Hormel Institute, says the new cream is an important step in improving skin cancer prevention. He says, "Topical applicatio...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

...s both diverged about 87 million years ago, making mice closer to humans in time. "We are much closer to the dog than to the mouse in terms of our gene content and structure," said researchers. "But if you do the evolutionary tree, we are on the same linage as the mouse. The mouse is evolving at a much ...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

...s both diverged about 87 million years ago, making mice closer to humans in time. "We are much closer to the dog than to the mouse in terms of our gene content and structure," said researchers. "But if you do the evolutionary tree, we are on the same linage as the mouse. The mouse is evolving at a much ...

Rat joins list of cloned animals

...y, diabetes and neurological disorders. Rats and mice used in labs are inbred or genetically engineered ...em, or a tendency to cancer. So-called knock-out mice and rats lack certain, specific genes and are useful for finding out what an unknown gene does. Cl...

Genetic differences found between Male and Female brains

...mparing the production of genes in male and female mice brains before the animal developed sex organs. They discovered 54 genes that were produced in different amounts in male and female brains -- independent of hormonal influences. Of those 54 genes, 18 were produced in higher quantities in the male brai...

Enzyme Associated with Memory

...mice. For the research, scientists studied female mice and how they remembered their mating partner. They...covered that with only one exposure at mating, the mice can later recognize their partner’s scent. After mating, a female mouse exposed to the scent of a st...

Islets May Lead to Diabetes Cure

...earch for a cure for diabetes. A new study done in mice shows cells from the spleen appear to develop into insulin //producing pancreatic islet cells. This could lead to a broad application for patients with diabetes.The latest research is a follow up to the 2001 report of a treatment that cures advanced ...

Enzyme Associated With Memory

...mice. For the research, scientists studied female mice and how they remembered their mating partner. They...covered that with only one exposure at mating, the mice can later recognize their partner’s scent. After mating, a female mouse exposed to the scent of a st...

Islet Cells May Lead to Diabetes CureChildren

...earch for a cure for diabetes. A new study done in mice shows cells from the spleen appear to develop into insulin producing //pancreatic islet cells. This could lead to a broad application for patients with diabetes. The latest research is a follow up to the 2001 report of a treatment that cures advanc...

Protein said to Improve Muscle Loss

...searchers found that young, middle-aged, and older mice had the same number of satellite cells in their mu...that helps muscles stay young. Results show young mice did indeed produce more of the Delta molecule than older mice. When researchers applied a Delta-like...

New Hope for Kidney Failure

...ury, according to new research.// For the study, mice were genetically engineered to express higher-than...id hormone-related protein (PTHrP). Both groups of mice developed normal kidney functions, thus allowing the researchers to study how the high levels of HGF...

Hope for Patients With Kidney Failure

...r injury, according to new research.For the study, mice were genetically engineered to express higher-than...id hormone-related protein (PTHrP). Both groups of mice developed normal kidney functions, thus allowing the researchers to study how the high levels of HGF...

Estrogen Found To Protect the Colon Against Cancer

... Investigators fed five different diets to female mice and followed their progress for one year. The diet...he levels used in hormone replacement therapy. The mice that consumed soy protein and developed colon cancer had fewer and smaller tumors than those mice th...

Brain Enzyme Found To Regulate Weight

...tudy Harvard researchers found in experiments with mice that when the enzyme AMPK (AMP-activated protein k...nd lost weight. When AMPK levels were boosted, the mice ate more and gained weight. Specialists from the University of Washington , who were not involved...

SARS vaccine shows promise in Animal Testing

...he virus has not been determined. Researchers say mice immunized with an experimental SARS vaccine were p...how the vaccine prompted an immune response in the mice and dramatically reduced the level of the virus in the lungs of some mice. However the results lea...

Rat Genetic Code Mapped

...nd disease .That in turn will help show what makes mice different from people, and rats from mice . If we have two things we can't really tell how far apart we are. Now that we have a third specie...

Stem Cells Found To Offer Promise For Hair Growth

...se cells into the skin of a different set of adult mice with no immune systems. (The absence of an immune system prevented the mice from rejecting the stem cell transplant.) Within four weeks, the transplanted cells made new hair ...

New Findings Could Reduce The Extent Of Spinal Cord Injuries

...and sensory nerve cell death could be prevented in mice with sciatic nerve injury and researchers feel the... the researchers treated injured sciatic nerves in mice with Hsc70 and Hsp70. In mice treated with the proteins, cell death was reduced by up to 50 percent ...

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