1. Using virus vectors, Woo successfully inserted normal mouse genes for phenylalanine hydroxylase into cultured liver cells from the mutant mouse. 2. Also, after being given vasopressin, the transgenic mice became more sociable than normal mice. 3. And even normal mice lost body fat to a lesser degree, he said Wednesday. 4. Best of all, the unit employs an optical reader instead of the underbelly track ball of a normal mouse. 5. After the genetically obese mouse at left was surgically joined to a normal mouse, the fat mouse began to eat less and lose weight. 6. Allowed all the alcohol they wanted, mutant mice drank twice as much as normal mice. 7. Coleman was studying a strain of genetically obese mice that weighed three times as much as normal mice. 8. Experts believe this is because the mice also continued to produce normal mouse hemoglobin and this protected the animals from the disease. 9. Even normal mice injected with leptin lost body fat. 10. Genetically normal mice gained plenty of weight on that diet. |