Sentences with phrase «altering animals also»

Altering animals also reduces behavioral problems, making them better companions and neighbors!

Altering animals also eliminates the risk of certain diseases, such as mammary and testicular cancer.

Not exact matches

Whitehead notes that the upward thrust of evolution has produced animals increasingly able to adapt the environment to themselves (FR 4 - 5), and this suggests that «adaptation» concerns not only an occasion's mode of responding to a given world but also its mode of altering the world beyond itself.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

It also remains unclear how knocking down expression of certain genes in zygotes via sperm miRNA leads to altered stress response in adult animals and altered gene expression in the brain.

«We have found that the same genes responsible for tamoxifen resistance in our animals are also turned off in human breast cancer cells that do not respond to the drug,» she says «Because these genes were epigenetically silenced — meaning they were not irreversibly altered, just switched off — it was possible to turn them back on.

Scientists also discovered another commonality: the mind - altering fungi grew in animal droppings and rotting wood.

Since most CAFOs feed animals genetically engineered (GE) grains (primarily corn and soy), there's also the issue of whether or not such feed might alter such meats in ways we still don't fully understand.

The word «natural» is a food package term, also regulated by the FDA, but mostly refers to foods that are not altered chemically or synthesized in any way as well as derived from plants and animals.

During Dōbutsu no Mori +'s localization process overseas as Animal Crossing, there were many changes that not only involved immense translation from Japanese to English, but also replacements of many cultural references as well as brand new content, including new holidays, new items and new or altered events.

However, rural areas with the least access to spay / neuter clinics and the least access to sheltering are also the ones in which intact animals are most likely to be released from the existing shelters with no follow - up to ensure they were altered.

«It would also degrade shelter operations, as well as morale and ultimately the character of shelter workers, by altering the mandated focus of animal control agencies from lifesaving back to the failed catch - and - kill orientation of the bad old days,» said Best Friends Animal Society co-founder Francis Batanimal control agencies from lifesaving back to the failed catch - and - kill orientation of the bad old days,» said Best Friends Animal Society co-founder Francis BatAnimal Society co-founder Francis Battista.

We also require that all existing animals in home are current on vet care, including spayed or neutered unless age or medical reason prevents altering.

In addition to reducing animal homelessness, there are also health and behavior benefits to altering pets:

The laws also encourage animal control officials to confiscate dogs from owners if the dogs have not been altered — causing the dogs to go into the shelter and often killed in the shelter.

We believe in spaying and neutering (also known as «fixing») as a moral imperative, and all our animals are surgically altered before they are adopted.

Dr. Irv and Dr. Kris also share their love of animals through travels to Africa, Tibetan refugee camps in India, and our own Hopi and Navaho Indian Reservation to vaccinate and alter dogs and cats.

Because the penicillins may also alter gut flora, antibiotic - associated diarrhea can occur, as well as selecting out resistant bacteria maintaining residence in the colon of the animal (superinfections).

And why would we discourage TNR — which is what animal welfare groups are promoting which encourages not only altering cats to keep them from being reproducing, but also vaccinating them against rabies in the process?

Altered Beast «s world is also populated by vicious and misshapen monsters, each layer of its deadly environment protected by a mutated and almost Lovecraftian boss — swollen masses of flesh and faces, grotesque gestalts of man and animal.

Thater also provides a window onto animal subjectivity through her use of atypical camera angles, dramatic shifts in scale, and colored lights that alter the spectrum of her exhibitions.

Folk art also suggests isolation, with the animal as alter ego.

The taller and denser vegetation uses up more carbon from the atmosphere, changes the amount and composition of forage for grazing animals, and also alters the partitioning and distribution of energy and heat at the land surface.

Beever added that climate change could also alter the vegetation mix the animals rely on, giving them less to eat.

[Erik Beever] added that climate change could also alter the vegetation mix the animals rely on, giving them less to eat.