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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.
While there is a large degree of homogeneity within individual skeletal muscles from rodents (Delp and Duan 1996), this is not the case for humans (Saltin et al.
Furthermore, intravesical LPS (another commonly used cystitis model in rodents) actually increased total bladder MIF protein and mRNA content [ 10 ] . Therefore, it is possible that MIF may be involved in the early responses of the bladder to inflammatory stimuli.
Normal spermatogenesis represents a precisely regulated balance between continuous cell proliferation and concomitant programmed cell death, apoptosis [ 1 2 3 4 ] . More than 50% of the germ cells die during their normal developmental process [ 5 6 ] . Apoptosis in the testis of rodents is detected as early as the 14 thembryonic day [ 7 ] . After birth, an early apoptotic wave of germ cells during a critical pre-pubertal period (around 3-4 weeks) [ 8 ] may be required for determining the subsequent normal pattern of spermatogenesis [ 3 ] .
Only a handful of studies have investigated the role of altering nutrient composition on longevity in rodents.