Murine in a sentence as a noun

"- And have that murine sense of when to leave the sinking ship when this disregard backfires.

" And the word "murine" here means "mouse," as the journal article makes more clear than the press release kindly submitted here.

We found that, in hGPC-xenografted mice, the human donor cells continue to expand throughout the forebrain, systematically replacing the host murine glia.

Research about how mouse models are imperfect comes out all the time, eg there was a paper about how the relatively sterile lab environment changes the murine microbiome and immune system.

Histone H1 is also found on the surfaces of murine macrophages where it serves as a receptor for thyroglobulin and it is a cell surface protein in murine neurons and in human monocytes.

Furthermore, all of these experiments were in vitro with a model betaCoV, murine hepatitis virus, so results shouldn't necessarily mean much for human populations.

Murine in a sentence as an adjective

The press release uses neither the word "murine" nor the word "mouse," and mentions "animal models" in passing just once, so when I first read the press release, I wasn't completely sure whether or not the findings were from a study of human patients.

[...] During the last decade, we developed a novel murine model that convincingly reproduces the carcinogenicity of MCS [6] and its modulation under conditions mimicking interventions either in current smokers and/or ex-smokers.

In this model, we demonstrate the alteration of early-life murine metabolic homeostasis through antibiotic manipulation.

The abstract of the published findings[1] says, "We show that despite the presence of antitumor T cells, immunotherapeutic antibodies are ineffective in a murine pancreatic cancer model recapitulating the human disease.

""Nicotine promotes pathologic angiogenesis and retinal neovascularization in murine models.

Murine definitions

noun

a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae

adjective

of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice); "a murine plague"