Rats are thin-tailed, medium-sized rodents, and you can find them all over the world. “True rats” belong to the genus Rattus, ...

This valuable study presents a novel approach to enhance the therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) by genetically modifying their glycogen synthesis pathway, resulting in increased ...

BACKGROUND: Recent studies have highlighted the deleterious role of high phosphate intake in hypertension by means of ...

"They are usually pretty surprised to learn that you can own so many exotic types of animals here in Kansas City without being a zoo." ...

no mouse or rat has ever drowned,” Bailey said. “These mice are naturally buoyant when they’re immobile.” Then the researchers take the mice out, dry them off, put them in a temporary cage on a warm ...

A novel virtual reality-based contextual fear conditioning paradigm for head-fixed mice that elicits robust freezing behavior and enables multiphoton imaging of neural circuits underlying learning, ...

In the world of neuroscience research, the mouse reigns supreme ... especially when those animals are living in tiny laboratory cages, far from their natural habitat. The same mouse in the ...

That's an important step forward, given that most mouse-model research into dementia focuses on the impact of single genes. "While different genes may increase your risk of dementia, no single ...

The growing mouse lemur research community, evidenced by over 300 publications ... The animals were maintained in cages enriched with branches and wooden nest boxes at a standard temperature of 24 to ...

For ethical and safety reasons, the virus had to be harmless to humans. At Columbia, a room where laboratory mouse cages are cleaned provided an ideal test setting. Most mice carry a form of norovirus ...