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Finally, after the long-suffering rodents had learned the route, Lai bombarded half the rats with microwaves similar to the kind that's emitted from mobile phones.
Because there are rodent species with no SRY gene and no Y chromosome [ 16], any of these genes or the X-linked DAX1 gene [ 17] might be considered candidates for a sex-determining gene in the XX rodents such as mole voles whose body plan is not so different from that of mice.
In rodents, intravenous injection of a non-targeted vector - viruses or plasmid preparations - induces mainly transfection in the liver and the spleen [ 1 2 ] . As of today, transfection of other large organs by viral vectors has not been accomplished in by way of systemic delivery [ 3 ] . The main inconveniences of intravenous administration of first generation adenoviral vectors are their immunogenicity [ 4 ] and hepatic toxicity [ 5 6 ] . The muscle as a large tissue mass is a candidate for production of recombinant protein, but the transfection is limited to the injection site.
In nocturnal rodents, lesioning the SCN results in more fragmented sleep, with lower EEG delta power, but leaving the daily sleep time unchanged [ 6 7 8 31 ] . Lesioning the SCN in a diurnal primate, the squirrel monkey, did result in an increase in NREMS time, but sleep was more fragmented, with a higher proportion of 'light' NREMS [ 5 ] ; i.e., with lower overall levels of EEG delta power.
Several investigators have used electroporation procedures to increase the gene expression of naked DNA injected in rodents muscles or in tumours [ 13 14 ] . There are basically two types of muscle electroporation protocols: (1) high voltage / short pulses and (2) low voltage / long pulses.
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