Rat study finds genetic markers that influence addiction: Differences in vulnerability to cocaine addiction, relapse linked to both inherited traits, epigenetics.»
The rat study found that baby rats showed anxiety and gained more weight when exposed to the chemical Firemaster 550.
However, a 2015
rat study found improvements in inflammation and reversal of insulin resistance, which researchers believe may have beneficial implications in humans (3).
A rat study found oat supplementation prevented gut leakiness, endotoxemia, and liver damage from alcohol, and similar mechanisms may play a role in prevention of fatty liver by whole grains.
Not exact matches
A new
study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program,
found that
rats consistently exposed to radiofrequency radiation from cellphones were more likely to develop malignant tumors in the brain and heart.
An unusual pattern of cardiomyopathy, a sign of an enlarged and damaged heart, was seen in both male and female
rats, the
study found.
Studies have linked high doses of sweeteners to cancer in
rats, though similar
findings have not been shown in humans.
Studies with
rats have
found that even short bursts of such hormones during pregnancy can result in normal genitals accompanied by transgender behaviour.
A 2010
study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
found that blueberry - fed
rats had significantly more bone mass than
rats whose diet was not supplemented with the berries.
I googled «oligofructose weight loss» and
found a Belgian
study on
rats and then on humans that said that appetite lowered through some complex changes in intestinal peptides.
One animal
study found that feeding millet to
rats decreased both blood triglycerides and inflammation (11).
In a
study titled Repeatedly heated palm kernel oil induces hyperlipidemia, atherogenic indices and hepatorenal toxicity in
rats: Beneficial role of virgin coconut oil supplementation researchers from Ebonyi State University in Nigeria
found that virgin coconut oil supplementation had a positive effect on the kidneys and livers of
rats who were also fed repeatedly heated palm kernel oil.
I always wash oats because I read a
study about
finding rat feces in them.
A
study published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
found that coconut oil supplementation and physical exercise improved high blood pressure and oxidative stress in hypertensive
rats.
Some of the medical
studies I used as a reference are: Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting: Two potential diets for successful brain aging and Dietary Factors, Hormesis and Health,
found on the US National Library of Medicine Site, Cardioprotection by Intermittent Fasting in
Rats on the American Heart Association Site and Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on aerobic and anaerobic performance and perception of fatigue in male elite judo athletes from the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.
For example, a
study of zinc and magnesium bio-availability in
rats where bio-availability had been reduced by phytic acid
found that «resistant starch restores zinc bio-availability» and «increased magnesium absorption» (3).
Through a series of
studies, Dr. Rozin
found that it is practically impossible to induce a preference for chile peppers in
rats, and subsequent experiments with dogs and chimpanzees have had limited success.
I've searched for
studies that might link MSG intake to cancer risk, and
found none (including
studies where
rats ate 5 % MSG for 2 years).
That's hard to measure with humans, but in
rat studies the benefits of mothering last until the animals reach an age equivalent to age 80 in humans, which I
find very encouraging.
Another
study found that
rats» hearing became impaired when they were exposed to 100 or 110 decibels of broadband noise, eight hours a day, for five days, but that their hearing wasn't affected when they were exposed to 90 decibels.
The
study most often used to argue that hydrogel is dangerous
found it was toxic only when injected directly into a
rat's vein or body cavity.
In their
study, Professor Stikland and Dr Bayers
found that when pregnant
rats were fed a diet of muffins, chocolate, cheese, crisps, doughnuts, biscuits and sweets, they bore offspring which were fatter and showed signs of muscle waste.
The
study found that metformin reduced blood pressure in the liver, liver scarring and inflammation after one week of use in cirrhotic
rats.
Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers
found one of the largest
rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for
rat diversity, according to the April
study in the Journal of Mammalogy.
A new
study finds that shining a low - power laser on damaged
rat teeth activates molecular growth factors already present in the tissue.
«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.
A 2012 Biomed Central Medicine
study found that both the offspring and grand - offspring of pregnant
rats exposed to nicotine developed asthma even if those descendants had no exposure to the chemical.
Through
studies on
rats and mice, he and his colleagues have come up with new
findings that may be significant to the development of new treatment methods.
A comparable
study, she says, may
find that lab
rats also do not lose hippocampal cells — and thus redeem them as a research tool in
studies on the link between alcoholism and memory loss.
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.
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.
In a new
study, he has
found that the
rats» offspring were inheriting more than just testis troubles.
Now, a
study finds that those irresistible sweet and salty concoctions may also change the way brains are wired — at least in
rats.
Previous
studies of naked mole -
rat cells have
found that fibroblasts and their secretions have anti-cancer activity.
Studying laboratory
rats, Rutgers scientists
found, however, that within a month after experimental brain injury, the number of new brain cells declined dramatically, below the numbers of new neurons that would have been detected if an injury had not occurred.
To
find out if tweaking current overdose protocols could prevent fatal liver damage, Duke mathematicians Lydia Bilinsky and Mike Reed and Duke biologist Fred Nijhout developed a mathematical model of acetaminophen metabolism, based on previous
studies of lab
rats given high doses of the drug.
Some
studies have
found an increased cancer risk in mice and
rats who were fed acrylamide, but those
studies used doses between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than levels that people would be exposed to in food.
Now, researchers have
found that the same cells fire when
rats run on a treadmill in patterns that apparently reflect how far and how long the
rat has run, according to a
study published yesterday in Cell.
The
study found, through tests in
rats, that a meal rich in saturated fat, reduces a person's cognitive function that make it more difficult to control eating habits.
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.
In 2008, the
studies led to the
finding that naked mole
rats didn't feel pain when they came into contact with acid and didn't get more sensitive to heat or touch when injured, like we and other mammals do.
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.
And saccharin was rehabilitated as a safe additive in 1997, when scientists
found that
rats used in earlier
studies had a predisposition to cancer unrelated to the sweetener.
When the scientists
studied a region of the
rats» brains called the dorsal striatum, they also
found striking differences between the two groups.
A large
study in
rats claims to show that cellphone radiation may cause cancer, but experts have cast doubt over the
findings.
«We
found that tame
rats, both male and female, never bit humans in this
study,» says Dr Becerra.
Rats in the
study, published in the March 3 Science, didn't
find the new molecule as rewarding as fentanyl, so it may be less addictive.
In the new
study, the scientists first trained all the
rats to expect to
find cocaine in certain places, to poke their nose into a hole to get a controlled dose of it, and to expect it would be available when a certain light was shining.
The team also
found that a low dose of THC did not disrupt the reproductive cycle in female
rats, something that has been under debate and, Craft said, needs more
study.
Interestingly, a previous
study by the research group with a different type of hypertensive
rat found that that ablating the other nerves, the afferent ones, lowered blood pressure.