A research team from the School of Chinese Medicine in the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) ...

The researchers brought their labs together to conduct a study with antibiotics in a diabetic mouse model of the Staph infection. First, they prepared a mouse model with bacterial infection in the ...

Of the two well-known rodent models of human type 1 diabetes (the non-obese diabetic mouse and the BioBreeding rat) the mouse has become the model of choice. Here the authors re-examine the value ...

The research team led by Professor Chen Haiyong (middle) discovers a mechanism of C-reactive protein that exacerbates inflammation in diabetic kidney ...

"It is a long way from insights in mouse experiments to bringing a drug ... we might also increase the effectiveness of weight-loss and diabetes medications," says Ravnskjaer.

A substantial majority of diabetic mice transplanted with islets-plus-R-VECs regained normal body weight and showed normal blood glucose control even after 20 weeks—a period that for this mouse ...

The researchers also examined a mouse model of diabetes-related metabolic syndrome to investigate the potential benefit of targeting MPC in high-risk patients with metabolic disorders. Blocking MPC ...

A substantial majority of diabetic mice transplanted with islets ... control even after 20 weeks -- a period that for this mouse model of diabetes suggests an effectively permanent islet engraftment.