Comparative Genomic In Situ Hybridization and the Possible Role of Retroelements in the Karyotypic Evolution of Three Akodontini Species by Naiara Pereira Araújo, Gustavo Campos Silva Kuhn, Flávia Nunes Vieira, Thaís Queiroz Morcatty, Adriano Pereira Paglia, Marta Svartman

“…South American Akodontini rodents are characterized by a large number of chromosome rearrangements. …”
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Th17: A New Participant in Gut Dysfunction in Mice Infected with Trichinella spiralis by Yu Fu, Wenfeng Wang, Jingjing Tong, Qi Pan, Yanqing Long, Wei Qian, Xiaohua Hou

“…Trichinella spiralis infection in rodents is a well-known model of intestinal inflammation associated with hypermotility. …”
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Patient-derived cornea organoid model to study metabolomic characterization of rare disease: aniridia-associated keratopathy by Ali Can Koc, Vedat Sari, Gamze Kocak, Tuba Recber, Emirhan Nemutlu, Daniel Aberdam, Sinan Güven

“…Animal models, such as drosophila, zebrafish, and rodents, have been used to study aniridia through Pax6 deletions. …”
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Programmed Cell Death, Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen and p53 Expression in Mouse Colon Mucosa during Diet-Induced Tumorigenesis by Mauro Risio, Ivana Sarotto, Francesco Paolo Rossini, Harold Newmark, Kan Yang, Martin Lipkin

“…A major finding was an irreversible, progressive, age‐related decline of PCD at the crypt base in both control and treated animals that occurred during the second half of the rodents  life span. p53 protein was not immunohistochemically detected, suggesting that neither overexpression of wild‐type nor mutated forms of the protein are involved in the above mentioned changes.…”
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Safety and efficacy of long-term nicotinamide mononucleotide supplementation on metabolism, sleep, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide biosynthesis in healthy, middle-aged Japane... by Shintaro Yamaguchi, Junichiro Irie, Masanori Mitsuishi, Yuichi Uchino, Hideaki Nakaya, Ryo Takemura, Emi Inagaki, Shotaro Kosugi, Hideyuki Okano, Masato Yasui, Kazuo Tsubota, Kaori Hayashi, Jun Yoshino, Hiroshi Itoh

“…Accumulating evidence from both rodents and humans suggests that the levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), a regulator of many biological processes, declines in multiple organs and tissues with aging and obesity. …”
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Spinal CRH facilitates the micturition reflex via the CRH2 receptor in rats with normal bladder and bladder outlet obstruction by Risa Shinoki, Ryosuke Jikuya, Takuma Nirei, Takeshi Fukazawa, Hiroki Takizawa, Mari Hioki, Sachi Kawaura, Tomoyuki Tatenuma, Go Noguchi, Daiki Ueno, Yusuke Ito, Mitsuru Komeya, Kentaro Muraoka, Hisashi Hasumi, Kazuki Kobayashi, Masahito Takiguchi, Kengo Funakoshi, Kazuhide Makiyama, Naoki Aizawa, Hiroki Ito

“…Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) is a neuropeptide that controls normal micturition in rodents. Herein, we investigated the role of spinal CRH in regulating micturition in sham and BOO rats, and evaluated CRH as a therapeutic target for bladder dysfunction in BOO model Sprague–Dawley rats. …”
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Fear extinction retention in children, adolescents, and adults by Ebba Widegren, Johan Vegelius, Matilda A. Frick, Ashika A. Roy, Stefan Möller, Johan Lundin Kleberg, Johanna Motilla Hoppe, Olof Hjorth, David Fällmar, Daniel S. Pine, Karin Brocki, Malin Gingnell, Andreas Frick

“…In contrast to findings in rodents, fear conditioning in humans may elicit similar physiological responses and recruit similar neural networks from childhood to adulthood.…”
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ZFP36 Regulates Vascular Smooth Muscle Contraction and Maintains Blood Pressure by Xiuru Cui, Yawei Wang, Hanlin Lu, Lei Wang, Xianwei Xie, Shenghao Zhang, Pavel Kovarik, Shuijie Li, Shanshan Liu, Qunye Zhang, Jianmin Yang, Cheng Zhang, Jinwei Tian, Yan Liu, Wencheng Zhang

“…This study reveals that ZFP36 expression is highly elevated in the arteries of hypertensive patients and rodents. In cultured vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC), angiotensin II (AngII) activates poly (ADP‐ribose) polymerases1 (PARP1) to stimulate Zfp36 expression at the transcriptional level. …”
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The ultradian rhythm of glucocorticoid secretion and the time course of target gene regulation by V. M. Merkulov, N. V. Klimova, T. I. Merkulova

“…Glucocorticoid hormones (cortisol in humans and corticosterone in rodents) are secreted in discrete pulses during a day with a periodicityof approximately 1 h (ultradian rhythm), and this pattern is also maintained in plasma and extracellular fluid. …”
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Haemaphysalis longicornis subolesin controls the infection and transmission of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus by Chuanfei Yuan, Yu Sun, Jingjing Chen, Qiong Xu, Xiang Zhou, Zhen Zou, Qianfeng Xia

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Enhanced Hepatocarcinogenicity Due to Agonists of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors in Senescent Rats: Role of Peroxisome Proliferation, Cell Proliferation, and Apoptosis by Jihan Youssef, Mostafa Badr

“…Exposure to agonists of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα) causes liver cancer in rodents, with aged animals being more susceptible than their younger counterparts to this effect. …”
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Creation of a novel zebrafish model with low DHA status to study the role of maternal nutrition during neurodevelopment by Katherine M. Ranard, Bruce Appel

“…Embryos undergo rapid external development and are optically transparent, enabling direct observation of individual cells and dynamic cell-cell interactions in a way that is not possible in rodents. Here, we create a novel DHA-deficient zebrafish model by 1) disrupting elovl2, a key gene in the DHA biosynthesis pathway, via CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, and 2) feeding mothers a DHA-deficient diet. …”
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Single, but not mixed dietary fibers suppress body weight gain and adiposity in high fat-fed mice by Swang M. Shallangwa, Alexander W. Ross, Peter J. Morgan

“…Dietary fiber can suppress excess adipose tissue and weight gain in rodents and humans when fed high fat diets. The gut microbiome is thought to have a key role, although exactly how remains unclear. …”
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Adeno-Associated virus 8 delivers an immunomodulatory peptide to mouse liver more efficiently than to rat liver. by Yuqing Wang, Ayrea Hurley, Marco De Giorgi, Mark R Tanner, Rong-Chi Hu, Michael W Pennington, William R Lagor, Christine Beeton

“…To this goal, we tested the ability of Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV)8 vectors to target hepatocytes for expressing the ShK analog, ShK-235 (AAV-ShK-235) in rodents. We designed AAV8 vectors expressing the target transgene, ShK-235, or Enhanced Green fluorescent protein (EGFP). …”
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Avian Infectious Bronchitis Virus: Molecular Detection in Southwestern Ethiopia Chickens by Bezina Arega Emeru, Haregawi Tesfaye Desta

“…However, improper carcass disposal (OR = 0.43, 95% CI: 0.13–1.4), lack of veterinary services (OR = 2.7, 95% CI: 0.8–8.3), and the presence of wild birds/rodents (OR = 4.4, 95% CI: 0.88-22.3) were associated with increased IBV risk but not cleaning of feeders/drinkers (OR = 1.1, 95% CI: 0.2–4.8). …”
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Chromosomes and speciation in tuco-tuco (Ctenomys, Hystricognathi, Rodentia) by A. A. Torgasheva, E. A. Basheva, M. J. Gomez Fernandez, P. Mirol, P. M. Borodin

“…Tuco-tucos, South American rodents of the genus Ctenomys represent an interesting model of speciation. …”
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Adolescent and adult mice use both incremental reinforcement learning and short term memory when learning concurrent stimulus-action associations. by Juliana Chase, Liyu Xia, Lung-Hao Tai, Wan Chen Lin, Anne G E Collins, Linda Wilbrecht

“…In a version of the human RL+WM task translated for rodents, mice were required to associate odor stimuli (from a set of 2 or 4 odors) with a left or right port to receive reward. …”
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The Effect of Delay Techniques on a Lassa Fever Epidemic Model by Ali Raza, Eugenio Rocha, Emad Fadhal, Rashid I. H. Ibrahim, Eman Afkar, Muhammad Bilal

“…The rat population includes susceptible and infectious rodents. By introducing a delay parameter and decay exponential term into the existing model in the literature, we got the system of highly nonlinear delay differential equations (DDEs). …”
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The role of KNDy neurons in human reproductive health by Aki Oride, Haruhiko Kanasaki

“…Since then, studies in mice and other animals have revealed that kisspeptin is located at the apex of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis and regulates reproductive functions by modulating gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). In rodents, kisspeptin (Kiss1) neurons localize to two regions, the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) and the anteroventral periventricular nucleus (AVPV). …”
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Cilostazol Combats Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Hippocampal Injury in Rats: Role of AKT/GSK3β/CREB Curbing Neuroinflammation by Doaa Abou El-ezz, Waleed Aldahmash, Tuba Esatbeyoglu, Sherif M. Afifi, Marawan Abd Elbaset

“…This study looked at the potential neuroprotective benefits of cilostazol, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, against LPS-induced hippocampus damage in rodents and the principal molecular involvement of AKT/GSK3β/CREB signaling pathways. …”
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