Sentences with phrase «rat studies at»

Rat studies at the University of Auckland in New Zealand bolstered the findings: mothers who were undernourished during pregnancy gave rise to obese adults.

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RI will be working with Honeywell, which is leading the suit avionics (the electrical and electronic devices that assist flight) and software development, to test its software application at what's called Desert RATS (Research and Technology Studies) in September.

Another study of degu rats discovered that babies» brains developed normally if the father rat stayed in the nest, but broke down at the level of synapses — in areas of the brain that influence decision - making and emotions — when the father was removed.

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

For this study, Ito and her team looked at the ventral hippocampus in rats, a sub-region that correlates to the anterior hippocampus in humans.

For the study, the researchers looked at rats that were exposed to a high - fat diet (45 percent fat) during gestation and lactation.

«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.

In a separate study, Paul Micevych and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, investigated the effect on the brain of the female rat's sexual cycle — characterised by an increase in oestradiol production every four days.

In another study scheduled to be presented at the neuroscience meeting — 21 brain organoid papers are on tap — researchers led by Dr. Isaac Chen, a neurosurgeon at the University of Pennsylvania, implanted human cerebral organoids into the brains of 11 adult rats, specifically the secondary visual cortex.

Dan Levy at Harvard University is wary of calling the rats» headache a hangover, but says the study is an important step towards understanding alcohol - triggered headache.

The study, led by Professor Margaret Morris, the Head of Pharmacology at UNSW, examined the impact of yo - yo dieting on the gut microbiota of rats.

A previous study of rats in New York by investigators at CII found several of the same pathogens, including E. coli, Salmonella, and C. difficile.

Rochelle Buffenstein, a physiologist who is now at the University of Texas Health Science Center, began studying naked mole rats in 1980 and took a colony with her when she moved from South Africa to the United States in 1997.

Scientists at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, have found another secret of longevity in the tissues of the longest - lived rodent, the naked mole rat.

Rats in the study, by Brian Noga, Ian Hentall and colleagues at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, were given mild, moderate or severe bruises that severed some nerves in the spinal cord and left others intact.

The researchers studied bones from rats in the three groups at different ages to determine how early in the development of obesity and diabetes the bone was affected negatively.

Now, a study finds that those irresistible sweet and salty concoctions may also change the way brains are wired — at least in rats.

For this study, a tumor cell line was transplanted into a rat and imaged with each of the following: conventional MRI, the radiotracer carbon - 13 (C - 13) pyruvate and hyperpolarized MRI at a resolution of 2.5 mm, Medipix positron detector, luminescence sensor and a fluorescence microscope.

Thousands of blind mole - rats have been captured and studied for more than 50 years at Israel's University of Haifa, where the animal work was conducted.

In a new study, Buzsáki and colleagues have been studying epilepsy in rats, specifically looking at interictal epileptic discharges (IEDs).

Previous studies have shown that rats will lend distressed companions a helping paw, says Peggy Mason, a neurobiologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois who was not involved in the work.

The first studies of BPA toxicity in the 1980s tested rats at high levels of exposure (50 milligrams of BPA per kilogram of body weight per day).

In a previous study, Nesha Burghardt, then a graduate student at New York University, and her colleagues demonstrated that long - term SSRI treatment impairs fear conditioning in rats.

Rats are among the most studied creatures on the planet, but scientists typically observe them at a distance.

The studies presented at the meeting address mice, rats and monkeys.

Headlines proclaiming a glass of red wine is as good for you as an hour at the gym were based on a 2012 study observing the effects of just one compound in red wine — resveratrol — on rats, not humans.

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have found that amounts of this microRNA are significantly elevated in the brains of experimental rats with induced depression from corticosterone treatment, in the post-death brains of humans diagnosed with MDD and in peripheral blood serum from living patients with MDD, according to a study by led by Yogesh Dwivedi, Ph.D., the Elesabeth Ridgely Shook Endowed Professor and director of Translational Research, UAB Mood Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry.

Previous studies have looked at the effect of smoking marijuana in adult rats and humans but this is the first time that the effects have been looked at in pubertal boys.

In a two - part study of adult rats treated with fluoxetine at levels comparable to those of people treated for depression, the scientists both induced amblyopia and cured it.

In a 2014 study in rats, researchers at the University of California found that the neurons in a brain region associated with spatial learning behaved completely differently in virtual environments compared to in real ones, with more than half of the neurons shutting down while in VR.

A study of rats published at the same time in the scientific journal Addiction Biology adds to the understanding of how OSU6162 works, as it shows that rats that voluntarily consumed alcohol for almost a year had lower levels of dopamine in their brain reward system than rats that had never drunk alcohol.

10 A recent study at the National Institutes of Health revealed that decreasing the caloric intake of rats expands their life span.

But this study goes beyond association, he notes, and actually gets at a cause, showing that specific frequencies cause rats to treat an object as new or old.

Joachim Liehr, a chemist at the University of Texas who has studied tamoxifen in rats, disagrees.

One idea is that rats on a spartan diet keep their proteins turning over at higher rates than normal, says Brian Merry, who is studying ageing and diet at the Institute of Human Ageing in the University of Liverpool.

«Because we had access to these rats that were bred for certain traits, and were able to control for environmental factors, such as the amount of drug exposure, we could assess differences in the brain both before and after the rats became addicted,» says Shelly Flagel, Ph.D., lead author of the new study and an assistant professor of psychiatry at U-M.

Researchers from the Department of Psychology and from the Department of Biology of Physical Activity at the University of Jyväskylä studied the effects of sustained running exercise, HIT and resistance training on adult hippocampal neurogenesis in adult male rats.

In several studies the neurological processing of lead - exposed rats from enriched environments could not be distinguished from that of rats that had no lead exposure at all.

Now, a study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) helps provide insight into these questions, showing that, in rat models, nicotine exposure actually promotes alcohol dependence.

Because diabetics are at high risk of having neuropathic pain, the team studied diabetic rats that had neuropathic symptoms: hypersensitivity to touch and lack of heat sensation.

Led by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center, the study found that maintaining high levels of adenosine in rats with damage to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which is known to lead to osteoarthritis in humans, prevented the rats from developing the disease.

The study provides «pretty convincing» evidence that the spinal cord can assuage joint inflammation, at least in rats, says Joan Bathon, director of the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

A team of researchers led by neurobiologist William Carlezon at Harvard's McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, studied how omega - 3 fatty acids and uridine affect the behavior of rats using a standard depression test.

Martin Kreitman, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Chicago, is concerned about the accuracy of matching up the mouse and rat genomes, but says the basic message of the study is «certainly correct.»

This study, led by Soo Young Kim and performed at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Berkeley, found that such compensation produces structural brain changes at the site of the stroke in rats, limiting recovery of the injured side.

The hypothesis was tested using an integrative approach at the isolated organ, cellular and molecular levels, in a longitudinal study in rats.

I received my undergraduate degree at Skidmore College where I did my thesis studying the cannabinoid system and female sexual behavior in rats.

Researchers from the group of Gary L. Dunbar at Central Michigan University, Michigan, USA have recently shown the ability of adenovirally generated rat iPSCs to survive and differentiate in the striatum of rats [6], and now in a study in Stem Cells Translational Medicine, they focus on the efficacy of transplantation of these cells into the 3 - nitropropionic acid (3 - NP) rat model of HD [7], which induces cell death by energy - depleting mechanisms providing an accurate model of cell loss and replicates many features of the disease [8].

Overall, the study utilised rats at 7.5 — 8.5 weeks of age assigned to 5 different groups; sham control (PBS only), 3 - NP control (3 - NP) and 3 experimental cohorts — rats treated with 3 - NP and injected with iPSCs into the striatum after 7 days (3 - NP - iPSC - 7), 21 days (3 - NP - iPSC - 21) and 42 days (3 - NP - iPSC - 42).

The study conducted in the laboratory of Don Cleveland, Ph.D., UCSD Professor of Medicine, Neurosciences and Cellular and Molecular Medicine and member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, shows that therapeutic molecules known as antisense oligonucleotides can be delivered to the brain and spinal cord through the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at doses shown to slow the progression of ALS in rats.