Olga Peñagarikano and colleagues demonstrated in a mouse model of autism that oxytocin can significantly improve their social behavior, and this benefit may last for a long time if treated early...
2020-11-05In 2004, approved by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Forestry, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology established a project-the standardization of Tibetan chief monkeys. The Laboratory Animal Research Institute of Sichuan Ac...
2020-11-05Scientists often use mice to test drugs. Now, some cancer patients also pin their hopes of curing themselves on laboratory mice....
2020-11-05The journal Nature Communications reported online the first discovery of fossil rods and cones (receptors in the visual system). The discovery of these things in a fish named Aanthodes bridgei that has been 300 million years ago shows that these visu...
2020-11-05Ideally, an effective animal model should meet at least three criteria and have appearance, structure, and predictive validity. Later, an additional criterion was added, that is, the similarity in etiology, that is, effective models should have simil...
2020-11-05Solve the changes in plasma levels of estrogen, progesterone, prolactin and prolactin and prolactin receptor mRNA in various tissues of male nude mice during pregnancy and lactation. Green Fluorescence Protein (GFP)...
2020-11-05The characteristic biomarkers terpenoids have the potential to indicate the diversity of ecosystems and vegetation. In order to understand and apply terpenoid biomarkers, it is necessary to clarify the distribution characteristics and corresponding r...
2020-11-04Past social experiences can affect the mental state of humans and the functional state of animals’ brains, causing individuals to make completely opposite behavioral choices in the same scene or facing the same stimuli...
2020-11-04Recently, researchers from the Neurocomputing and Brain-Computer Interaction Team of the Brain-Inspired Intelligence Research Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed a structured neural decoding model to achieve high-qu...
2020-11-04Cancer stem cells (CSCs) play an important role in tumor survival, proliferation, metastasis and recurrence. Essentially, cancer stem cells maintain the vitality of tumor cell populations through self-renewal and immortal proliferation...
2020-11-04Based on long-term investigations and studies on the Himalayas, Che Jing’s team, a researcher from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reconstructed the temporal and spatial evolutionary history of most of the existing amph...
2020-11-04Recently, a research team led by Li Jianke, a researcher at the Institute of Bee Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, used bee embryos as materials to systematically reveal the molecular basis of embryonic development, providing import...
2020-11-03A study by researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States on a mouse model of asthma showed that the sensory neurons of the lungs are the key regulators of airway contraction typical of acute asthma attacks, which suggests th...
2020-11-03Some evidence from human famine and animal studies shows that hunger can affect the health of the offspring of starving individuals. But people have always been unclear about how such an acquired trait is passed from one generation to the next....
2020-11-03The research group of Dr. Taki Tiraihi of Tarbiat Modares University School of Medicine in Iran found that motor neuron-like cell transplantation combined with glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor can reduce the formation of syringomyelia in injure...
2020-11-03In the United States, more than one-third of adults are obese. Obesity is difficult to treat with drugs, especially the severe side effects of weight-loss drugs make many drugs unavailable...
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