Is Alzheimer’s Transmissible Through Bone Marrow Cells?
A mouse experiment suggested familial Alzheimer’s disease may be transmitted through bone marrow stem cells, but the implications of the findings were limited. The research involved transplanting bone marrow stem cells from mice engineered to carry a familial Alzheimer’s disease mutation into healthy mice, which led to “rapid development of Alzheimer’s disease pathological hallmarks,” reported […]
Compound derived from hops reduces abundance of gut microbe associated with metabolic syndrome
Researchers have shown in a mouse model and lab cultures that a compound derived from hops reduces the abundance of a gut bacterium associated with metabolic syndrome. The findings, published today in the journal Microbiome, are important because an estimated 35 percent of the U.S. adult population suffers from the syndrome, a common and serious […]
Gut microbiomes of mouse pups are permanently altered when moms are fed a low-fiber diet while nursing
The first things that mouse newborns touch and eat establishes their native microbiome, which is often influenced by their mother during birth and throughout nursing. Although diet has been a known contributor to obesity in all stages of life, the effects of nursing mothers’ diets is an ongoing investigation. In a paper publishing December 8th […]
Lactating mice pass along common antimicrobial to pups, initiating liver damage: Triclosan is used in everything from cleaners to pesticides to toys
In mouse studies, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that lactating mothers expose their feeding pups to triclosan, an antimicrobial commonly used in consumer products, resulting in early signs of liver damage that can eventually lead to more serious impairment and illness, such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and […]