In a study involving adult pericyte-deficient mice, the absence of such cells in the brain had been found to lead to vascular damage from loss of microcirculation and cerebral blood flow.
An oversized staircase with a high platform as the first step is so out of scale that the two adult mice on that step appear tiny.
When adult mice were treated with antibiotics, IL-22 production went up again.
The former provides accommodation for breeding pairs or trios or up to five adult mice while the latter is used for up to 25 stock mice depending on their size.
The virus infects adult immunocompetent mice and is a well-established model for studying genetic resistance to infection by an immunosuppressive retrovirus.
Isolates were maintained in vitro for four days then grafted in combination with fetal mesenchyme, to the renal subcapsular space of adult nude mice.
Some years later, other Japanese scientists created female offspring by combining the eggs of two adult mice.
Jaenisch was a post-doctoral researcher in Princeton University at the time and was interested in why only certain types of cancer occurred when he injected adult mice with viruses.
Consistent with a role in male-male aggression, adult male mice secrete significantly more Mups into their urine than females, juveniles or castrated male mice.
In summary, we have expressed wild-type and mutant, stabilized human β-catenin in differentiated neurons and glia of adult transgenic mice.