Sentences with phrase «university animal blood»

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Marta Monteiro and colleagues at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, studied mice protected from the animal equivalent of multiple sclerosis by natural killer T - cells (NKT), a class of white blood cell which helps to control the immune system.

Moreover, getting a better picture of what the virus looks like and understanding its properties through animal testing and studying patients» blood might help vaccine developers pinpoint specific issues, says Pei - Yong Shi, a virologist at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter, UK, who led the study, says the findings echo those in animals, which are also more likely to produce boys during times of plenty, whereas female mice with low blood sugar also seem more prone to producing girls.

Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.

Michael Cranfield, a veterinarian at the University of California, Davis, and co-director of one organization called Gorilla Doctors, and his colleagues provided samples from blood collected while treating injured animals or dissecting dead ones, including Kaboko.

Prof. Dr. Martin Sander of the University of Bonn's Steinmann Institute summarizes the implications of this development: «This allowed dinosaurs to not only show off their colorful feathery attire, but to be warm - blooded animals at the same time — something mammals never managed.»

But mixing a molecule called 2 - HOBA into the animals» drinking water returns their blood pressure almost to normal, vascular biologist David Harrison of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville and colleagues have found.

«The idea of choking adipose tissue off from its blood supply to make an animal leaner seemed incredibly wrong,» says Randy Seeley, a neuroscientist at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, who was not involved in the study.

When researchers at the University of Chicago withdrew exosomes from the blood of rats and administered them to aging animals, the older rats» myelin levels rose by 62 percent, the team reported in February in Glia.

At Kansas University, researchers have found that monkeys injected with gp120 and then a hybrid kind of HIV had more of the virus in their blood later on than infected animals which weren't vaccinated.

Aberrant Blood Vessel Growth in AMD: A New Animal Model Sarah McFarlane, PhD University of Calgary (Calgary, Canada)

In the 2006 paper, researchers led by Federico Infascelli, an animal nutrition researcher at the University of Naples, tested the blood of rabbits fed genetically modified soybeans.

Luckily, cat blood is less in demand than dog blood, according to Dr. Kirsten Cooke, a clinical assistant professor of small animal medicine at the University of Florida.

To establish your kittens's FCoV antibody titre get your veterinary surgeon to send 0.5 - 1.0 ml blood in a heparin tube to the Companion Animal Diagnostics, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Bearsden, Glasgow, G61 1QH, United Kingdom.

Veterinarians will often administer small doses of an antidote to DXM to counterbalance the bradycardia and raise the heart rate, but Dr. Manuel - Martin Flores and his colleagues at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals observed that cats subjected to the stresses of these dexmedetomidine - antidote treatments did not do well and often developed dangerously low blood pressure.

To send a sample for blood typing To establish blood type get your veterinary surgeon to send 0.5 - 1.0 ml blood in an EDTA tube to the Companion Animal Diagnostics, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Bearsden Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, U.K. Results will be given on the day the sample is received.

To establish your cat's FCoV antibody titre get your veterinary surgeon to send 0.5 - 1.0 ml blood in a heparin tube to the Companion Animal Diagnostics, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Bearsden, Glasgow, G61 1QH, United Kingdom.

Susan Garrison, LVT is a medical genetics technician whose duties include selecting cases for DNA and tissue banking and obtaining client consent for blood and tissue archiving during appointments in the Cornell university Hospital for Animals.

«The simple act of petting an animal is known to cause a person's blood pressure to drop,» said Alan Beck, ScD, director of the Center for the Human - Animal Bond at Purdue Univeanimal is known to cause a person's blood pressure to drop,» said Alan Beck, ScD, director of the Center for the Human - Animal Bond at Purdue UniveAnimal Bond at Purdue University.

It is the liver's ability to filter out — or at least reduce the potency of — potentially poisonous compounds and infectious agents from circulating blood that prompts Dr. Richard Goldstein, DVM, associate professor of small animal medicine at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, to characterize this organ as «the guardian of a cat's body.»