In this study, susceptibility of inbred C57BL/6 and outbred NMRI mice to monosodium glutamate (MSG) obesity or diet-induced obesity (DIO) was compared in terms of food intake, body weight, adiposity as well as leptin, insulin and glucose levels. MSG obesity is an early-onset obesity resulting from MSG-induced lesions in arcuate nucleus to neonatal mice. Both male and female C57BL/6 and NMRI mic...

NMRI and SENCAR, two stocks of mice commonly used in multistage skin carcinogenesis studies, were compared with respect to the effects of inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism for the following 12-O-tetra-decanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-elicited events: tumor promotion, DNA synthesis in vivo and in vitro, ornithine decarboxylase induction, and prostaglandin (PG) E2 synthesis. Previous work...

Transmission studies were conducted using two Trypanosoma vivax stocks isolated from bovines in Uganda. Parasitaemia was low and transient in rabbits and rats; it persisted for relatively longer in NMRI mice. The parasitaemia developed to a peak in a few A/J and Balb/c mice; in NMRI, C57B and C3H/He it was low and fleeting. Lethally irradiated A/J, C57B and C3H/He mice with caesium 137 at 900 G...

Localized proton MR spectroscopy (MRS) was used to quantify cerebral metabolite concentrations in NMRI (n = 8), BALB/c (n = 7), and C57BL/6 (n = 8) mice in vivo and 1 hr after global irreversible ischemia (2.35 T, STEAM, TR/TE/TM = 6000/20/10 ms, 4 x 3 x 4 mm(3) volume, corrections for cerebrospinal fluid). Anatomical MRI and proton MRS revealed significant differences of the C57BL/6 strain in ...

Phenotypes that are either resistant or susceptible to infection by the trematode parasite Schistosoma mansoni exist in the tropical freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata. We tested the hypothesis that a cost of parasite resistance in B. glabrata is greater sensitivity to cadmium toxicity, using parasite-resistant and parasite-susceptible strains exposed to cadmium in the laboratory. Survival ...

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation in animal models generates a large number of immune factors including cytokines and mediators. It also acts as a potent inducer of macrophage reactive oxygen intermediates and reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNI). RNI as stable metabolites of nitric oxide (NO) are produced by cells stimulated with LPS and cytokines. In this study, LPS from Salmonella abortu...

Treatment of NMRI mice with isoniazid (INH; 25 mg/kg) intraperitoneally induced significant protection when it was injected before or after a lethal intravenous challenge with endotoxin. The INH preparation used was not contaminated with endotoxin. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) was not elevated in sera from NMRI mice 2 h after the injection of INH. INH did not influence TNF synthesis or release d...

We describe a localized proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) method for in vivo measurement of lipid composition in very small voxels (1.5 mm x 1.5 mm x 1.5 mm) in adipose tissue in mice. The method uses localized point-resolved spectroscopy to collect (1)H spectra from voxels in intra-abdominal white adipose tissue (WAT) and brown adipose tissue (BAT) deposits. Nonlinear least-squ...

The Artificial Ground Freezing (AGF) method, which is widely used in tunnel excavations, significantly affects the properties of geotechnical materials frozen walls under extremely low temperatures. In order to simulate AGF process, freezing treatment with a temperature −30°C and thawing 25°C were performed on natural specimens granite residual soil (GRS). Subsequently, triaxial (TRX) tests con...