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mice

(mīs)

Plural of mouse.

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Research Mouse

mice

1. Mouse, see there.

2. See Joint mice.

Patient discussion about mice

Q. What is the treatment for "hip joint mice"? Thanks!

A. if you are young- it goes away by itself after 6-8 painful weeks...if you are older you might need a surgery to remove the particles. it the hip bone it can be complicated, so it's really up to your Dr. to decide what to do here.

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All the new mice are available for pre-sale on Amazon.com today.

THREE NEW MICE GIVE CONSUMERS ULTIMATE MOBILITY

Over the next several weeks, the normal mice continued to decline.

Early fix: prion disease remedied in mice

All 39 mice used were kept in individual cages, monitored for signs of infection, and bled retroorbitally 2 weeks later to test for seroconversion by using plaque-reduction neutralization tests.

Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus transmission and effect on pathogenesis

When such "star" transgenic mice appear, they have as much financial as knowledge value.

Not so generic mice: Japanese companies venture into the transgenic mouse trade

Peritoneal macrophages were isolated by flushing the peritoneal cavity of A/J mice with 10 mL of sterile ice-cold phosphate buffer.

Lead increases lipopolysaccharide-induced liver injury through tumor necrosis factor-[alpha] overexpression by monocytes/macrophages: role of protein kinase C and p42/44 mitogen-activated protein kinase

The NR2B part of the NMDA receptors works well in young mice, but its efficiency drops drastically after puberty.

THE SMART GENE

While most mice are connected to the computer by an umbilical wire, some designs are wireless.

The mighty mouse: enhancing spreadsheet productivity

To explore whether a low body temperature itself lengthens an animal's life, Bruno Conti of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and his colleagues genetically engineered mice to have a faulty sense of body temperature.

Low body heat lengthens mouse lives

Replication of A/PR/8/34(H1N1) (PR8) virus for >3 weeks in severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice that were chronically treated with M2e-specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) resulted in the emergence of M2e-escape mutants (28).

Prospects for universal influenza virus vaccine

2002) and, after a prolonged application, a beneficial effect on diabetes in mice expressing human islet amyloid peptide (Geisler et al.

The estrogenic effect of bisphenol a disrupts pancreatic [beta]-cell function in vivo and induces insulin resistance

The cell is a cumulus cell, which surrounds developing eggs in female mice. Using a tiny straw-like glass instrument called a micropipette, researchers sucked out the cell's nucleus, the part that houses genetic information.

Send in the clones

To see whether feeding resveratrol to mammals would extend their lives, Sinclair and his colleagues provided daily doses of the compound to middle-aged mice being fed an extremely unhealthy diet.