Sentences with phrase «rat studies investigating»

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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.

So instead of studying the whole animals, he began isolating single nerve cells from the mole rats and investigating them in lab dishes to track the molecular basis of the rodent's pain insensitivity.

After the study on invertebrate brains, Strausfeld and Wolff will embark on investigating vertebrates such as rats, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish.

In the present study, we therefore used microarray technology to investigate the concurrent expression of 1,178 genes in the rat retina both following hypoxia and following a post-hypoxic 24 h reoxygenation period.

In this study, we have used a multidimensional approach including high - magnification and super-resolution microscopy, cerebro - spinal fluid (CSF) mass spectrometry analysis and ELISA to investigate the Aβ pathology and its associated cognitive impairments, in a novel transgenic rat model overexpressing human APP.

This study investigated the influence of chronically administered curcumin on normal ageing - related parameters: lipid peroxidation, lipofuscin concentration and intraneuronal lipofuscin accumulation, activities of the enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and Na (+), K (+), - adenosine triphosphatase (Na (+), K (+), - ATPase) in different brain regions (cerebral cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum and medulla) of 6 - and 24 - month - old rats.

In this study, the effect of lesion of the cholinergic pedunculo - pontine cell bodies (PPN) by the excitotoxin quisqualic acid was investigated on spontaneous locomotor activity and learning in rats.

In their new study published in Cell, the team investigated enhancers containing «ultraconserved elements,» which are at least 200 base pairs in length and are 100 percent identical in the genomes of humans, mice and rats.

The study set out to investigate the anti-osteoarthritic activities of the polysaccharide APS - 3c in dong quai, which has previously been shown to protect rat cartilage from degrading.

A colleague informed him of a startling trend: liver cancer was plaguing affluent Filipinos at a much higher rate than their less - wealthy counterparts — a phenomenon that, despite a slew of other lifestyle differences, Campbell believed was linked to their higher intake of animal protein.1 Bolstering his suspicions, Campbell also learned of a recent study from India showing that a high protein intake spurred liver cancer in rats, while a low protein intake seemed to prevent it.2 Intrigued by this gem of little - known research, Campbell decided to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer growth himself — an endeavor that ended up lasting several decades and producing over one hundred publications (none of which pertained to Fight Club).3

A 2012 study investigated the liver protecting action of beet greens in rat liver cultures and rats with hepatatoxicity.