Sentences with phrase «early animal studies»

This is in general agreement with the early animal studies that found reductions in NFL as a result of limb immobilization (Tabary et al. 1972; Goldspink et al. 1974; Williams & Goldspink, 1978).

The nonspecific resistance enhanced by taking this supplement was established in early animal studies and has been corroborated in recent human clinical case studies.

Early animal studies have shown that stem cells isolated from umbilical cord blood can stimulate cells in the spinal cord to regrow their myelin layers, and in doing so help restore connections with surrounding cells.

Inhibitory cell - based neuro - therapy is a new approach and has shown promise to date in early animal studies, warranting further development,» says Cory Nicholas, a co-first author.

After early animal studies demonstrated that the synthetic cannabis extract dronabinol improved respiratory stability, recent studies in humans have explored the potential use of dronabinol as an alternative treatment for sleep apnea.

Early animal studies found that baby primates preferred a warm, terry - cloth «mother» doll over a wire doll that dispensed food but lacked warmth.

Early animal studies once suggested that soy might be harmful for breast cancer survivors.

Heck, early animal studies show that losing a little weight may even increase life - span and have potential benefits for brain function.

In earlier animal studies, the Andersen lab found that it is here, in the PPC, that the initial intent to make a movement is formed.

Earlier animal studies have shown that A-beta can move into the brain if it's injected into the bloodstream, but scientists didn't know whether A-beta from the blood can be plentiful enough to form plaques in the brain.

Not exact matches

And earlier this year, a study showed a neural link between generosity and happiness, further cementing humans as fundamentally social animals.

As a minor illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the study of animal behavior.

Earlier studies involving animal models did not translate to humans.

My assigned blogger for this month was Lindsay and her blog «The Lean Green Bean» - she is studying to be a Registered Dietitian plus she shares her home with four furry companions, two cats and two dogs, which I personally found very cool because I am an animal lover myself since I grew up with dogs from very early age and in my adult life share my home with 3 cats.

The study was done after earlier research in animal studies showed that neurocognitive delays were more common among vitamin D deficient animals» offspring.

So the animal studies give us only a hint at how early experience can affect development — the way human babies are treated by caregivers has even more effects on them than for any other animal because they are born so immature.

Attachment theory stems from psychologist John Bowlby's studies of maternal deprivation and animal behavior research in the early 1950s.

In part, that's because early research was based on animal studies.

Scores of animal and human studies show that early life stress, such as severe early social deprivation, leads to long - term changes in the brain, cognitive and social problems, and heightened susceptibility to anxiety, depression, and drug abuse in adulthood.

The most recent study report described in these same regions decreased tissue levels of 5 - HT and tryptophan hydroxylase, the synthesizing enzyme for serotonin, and no evidence of excessive serotonin degradation as assessed by levels of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid (the main metabolite of serotonin) or ratios of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid to serotonin.30 A recent article described a significant association between a decrease in medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity and specific SIDS risk factors, including tobacco smoking.40 These data confirm results from earlier studies in humans39, 41 and are also consistent with studies in piglets that revealed that postnatal exposure to nicotine decreases medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity.42 Animal studies have revealed that serotonergic neurons located in the medullary raphe and adjacent paragigantocellularis lateralis play important roles in many autonomic functions including the control of respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, thermoregulation, sleep and arousal, and upper airway patency.

He cautions, however, about drawing too many conclusions from animal studies and early - stage clinical trials.

But animal studies also suggest that early life exposure to some EDCs can cause weight gain later in life, and, as a result, have been called «obesogens.»

In subsequent studies the researchers plan to analyze further relevant datasets in order to test different scenarios of the evolution of the earliest animal phyla.

«However, since most earlier studies were in men or male animals, it looks like this «normal» response was only in men.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

Animal studies suggest ingestion of pesticide mixtures in early pregnancy may be associated with decreased live - born offspring leading to concerns that levels of pesticide residues permitted in food by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may still be too high for pregnant women and infants.

Toward that end he pursued studies of small (meiofaunal) grazing animals living within microbial mats and documented the earliest appearance of animal and trace (so - called Ediacaran) fossils in late Precambrian sediments in NE Norway.

Nicky Clayton at the University of Cambridge, UK, says the study shows that young chicks are capable of abstract relational thought: «The fact that young chicks can do this suggests this ability is more widespread across the animal kingdom than previously thought, and emerges earlier in development than expected.»

Evolutionary biologist Dawkins delves into his earliest adventures as a young boy in Africa, efforts to fit in at English boarding schools and later animal - behavior studies.

One of the earliest compelling studies to suggest a relationship between diabetes and air pollution was an animal experiment published in 2009 in Circulation from researchers at Ohio State University and other institutions.

This finding is in accordance with earlier animal model studies, which have shown that physical activity increases the amount of growth factors in the brain and improves synaptic plasticity.

Some of Moderna's most promising early candidates, although they could tiptoe past the immune system, produced underwhelming amounts of protein in animal studies.

In the new study, Professor Pisani and colleagues used cutting edge statistical techniques (Posterior Predictive Analyses) to test whether the evolutionary models routinely used in phylogenetics can adequately describe the genomic datasets used to study early animal evolution.

Despite a dearth of human studies, more than 400 experiments have been done since the early 1970s to determine how cell phone radiation affects animals, cells and DNA.

The new study also challenges the earlier held notion that animals with eyes to the sides of their heads can not glean information based on the direction of one another's gaze.

The analysis confirms the conclusion reached in an earlier study, which dated the origin of animals to the Neoproterozoic Era, which lasted from 1000 to 540 million years ago.

By studying the anatomy and thin sections (also known as histology), Lyson and his colleagues have shown that the modern tortoise breathing apparatus was already in place in the earliest fossil tortoise, an animal known as Eunotosaurus africanus.

For the study, the researchers used an unusually large dataset made up of the sequences of 128 proteins from 55 species, including representatives of all the major animal groups, focusing in particular on those that diverged very early.

An earlier study used reversible lesions in the BNST and CeA to block the function in these two areas and then examined their effects in a unique animal model of cocaine self - administration.

Earlier studies looked at many genes from a few animals or a few genes from many animals, but Brown University biologist Casey Dunn and his team cast a wider net, sampling DNA from all across the genomes of 71 different animals.

In earlier studies involving animal models and human cancer cell lines, researchers found that breast cancer spreads when three specific cells are in direct contact: an endothelial cell (a type of cell that lines the blood vessels), a perivascular macrophage (a type of immune cell found near blood vessels), and a tumor cell that produces high levels of Mena, a protein that enhances a cancer cell's ability to spread.

protected animals» (i.e., bacteria, fungi, plants, invertebrate animals); studies on vertebrates at early stages of development (before they become?

But according to a new study, the true surprise lies buried deep beneath the 30 - meter - tall mound: stone tools, animal bones, and plant remains left behind by some of the earliest known Americans nearly 15,000 years ago.

For her PhD, Viglietti studied the fossil - rich sediments present in the Karoo, deposited during the tectonic events that created the Gondwanides, and found that the vertebrate animals in the area started to either go extinct or become less common much earlier than what was previously thought.

A PETA study conducted earlier this year found that there has been a 73 % rise in the use of these animals in U.S. labs over the past 15 years, obviating the need for other types of animals.»

«If human organs on chips can be shown to be robust and consistently recapitulate complex human organ physiology and disease phenotypes in unrelated laboratories around the world, as suggested by early proof - of - concept studies, then we will see them progressively replace one animal model at a time.

Early findings from a human trial of the process and from animal studies were published today in Science Translational Medicine.

The variant lies near a gene called telomerase RNA component, or TERC, and earlier studies in animals have shown that low TERC expression is associated with shorter telomeres, and faster biological aging.

A new study from the University of Cambridge has identified one of the oldest fossil brains ever discovered — more than 500 million years old — and used it to help determine how heads first evolved in early animals.

The new glimpse of the footpaths of animals and humans complement earlier studies that reveal the anatomy and behavior of H. erectus, suggesting that as it evolved modern body proportions, it also increased its home range and began competing with carnivores for carcasses on the savanna, says Harris.