Sentence examples for mice genetically predisposed from inspiring English sources

One study at the University of Adelaide in Australia showed that mice genetically predisposed to a type of cancer developed twice as many such cancers when exposed to cell phone radiation.

Sartor, for his part, notes a "concerning" 2007 study in which deliberately transmitting the gut bacteria of mice genetically predisposed to develop intestinal inflammation to healthy mice caused the healthy mice, in turn, to develop the condition.

Although previous studies had suggested that MWNTs can cause cancer in mice genetically predisposed to it, the nanotubes' effects on normal mice has not been studied as extensively.

So developmental biologist Lee Niswander of the University of Colorado, Denver, set out to investigate folic acid supplementation in mice genetically predisposed to giving birth to embryos with neural tube defects.

Fish oil improves control in systemic lupus erythematosus [ 26] and has a preventive effect when given prophylactically to mice genetically predisposed to lupus [ 27].

In a landmark paper, Backhed and colleagues showed that mice genetically predisposed to obesity remained lean when they were raised without microbiota 73.

In addition, we observed 4 cases of obesity (>40 g) during old age, 3 of them were founder mice and included the founder mouse for line B (which we selected for further analysis based on high TG expression levels) and 1 was an F1 TG mouse of line B. Finally, C57BL/6 mice are genetically predisposed to hydrocephaly (1 4%), we observed 2 cases in NTG mice and none in TG mice.

BALB/c mice are genetically predisposed to a Th2-type immune response; however, immunization of these mice with PG aggrecan induces a higher ratio of IFN- γ to IL-4, indicating that PGIA is a Th1-type disease and immunization with PG aggrecan in either Freund's adjuvant or DDA is a sufficient Th1 stimulus to overcome the genetic inclination toward development of a Th2-type response [ 76].

In two related studies, researchers discovered a microbe that can activate an immune response; in germ-free mice that were genetically predisposed to autoimmune arthritis, it was enough to cause the disease.

The negative regulatory function of PD-1 in T-cell activation was revealed in Pdcd1−/− mice that are genetically predisposed to systematic autoimmunity (Nishimura et al., 1999).

Chondrocyte apoptosis was also examined in STR/ort mice, which are genetically predisposed to develop OA-like lesions in the medial tibial cartilage.