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lab mouse
noun
A laboratory mouse.
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Algernon, incidentally, is the lab mouse who undergoes the same surgery as Charlie.
What would happen, Rosshart wondered, if he gave a lab mouse a wild microbiome?
His betrayal is foreshadowed by a scene in which Johannes kills a lab mouse.
University researchers perform an experiment on Charlie, turning him into a genius, after their successful experiments on the lab mouse Algernon.
The narrator spends his days tending a lab mouse, Henrietta – named after Henrietta Lacks, the 1950s patient whose "immortal" tumour cells she has received – and avoiding human entanglements with a beautiful hospital translator and with his estranged wife in Dublin.
(The average lifespan for the most commonly used lab mouse is 22 months.) Researchers might delete a key gene, for instance, or remove a particular organ (such as the ovaries) to induce a disease (such as osteoporosis).
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Already, information gleaned from decoding this simple plant--the equivalent of the lab mouse--has made "a quantitative change" in research, says Carnegie Institution plant scientist Chris Somerville, whittling the time for isolating genes from years to weeks and thus speeding genetic discoveries ranging from more healthful soybean oil to a protein that may lead to faster growing crops.
The striking new finding of the present HAB/LAB mouse study is that this mild anxiogenic stimulus invoked differences in neuronal activation patterns in additional brain areas, including subregions of the amygdala, the hypothalamus, the nucleus accumbens, the midbrain and the pons, and that the OA-induced neuronal activation profile in NAB mice resembled in large part that of LAB mice.
Primary antibodies: rabbit-anti-mTRF1 #6888 (1/500, Karlseder lab), rabbit-anti-mTRF2 #6889 (1/500, Karlseder lab), mouse-anti-TRF2 (1/500, upstate biotechnology).
Antibodies: rabbit-anti-mTRF2 #6889 (1/1000, Karlseder lab), mouse-anti-g-Tubulin GTU-88 (1/10000, Sigma), mouse-anti-GFP (1/200, Chemicon International).
But finding these works, in a system that can sometimes feel like a lab-mouse maze designed by a sadistic scientist, has never been easy.
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