Science news articles about 'free mice'

... of fat stored in the liver dropped substantially when researchers put the lipodystrophic mice on a fat-free diet. "Just eliminating the dietary fat reduced liver triglycerides by approximately 50 ...

Researchers have uncovered crucial clues about a paradoxical disease in which patients with no body fat develop many of the health complications usually found in obese people.

... learn something from it and we can see evidence of that." Despite having learning disabilities, the Syt-IV-free mice produced improved LTP. In fact, it was too high. "If synapses are tweaked to the ...

... the intestine's immunity barrier. Gaboriau-Routhiau similarly found in studies of conventional and germ-free mice that colonization of the gut induced a broad spectrum of pro-inflammatory and T cell ...

... than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to new research at the School of Medicine. The study was based on transplants of human intestinal microbes into germ-free mice.