Sentences with phrase «while rodents»

Alik Widge, a psychiatrist - engineer focusing on brain stimulation, told the publication that while rodents can be used for early stages, the company will eventually need an animal like a pig that has a «big brain with lots of folds» to properly test its creation.

What's more, you will have to fork out a staggering $ 49 (# 38) for the privilege of sipping a cup of coffee and tucking into a piece of cake while rodents watch on or scurry by.

While rodents behave in the maze, they are tracked with an overhead camera and software that monitors their behavior.

«While rodents are essential for understanding mechanisms at a cellular or molecular level, at a higher cognitive level, the best you could do was a sort of rough analogy.

Long before John Tudor put his gone - south paw through a dugout fan; before Joaquin Andujar put his mouth where his brain might have been; before the rest of the St. Louis Nuthouse Gang attempted to justify a preposterous, deserved, team - effort humiliation while their rodent - at - arms, Whitey Herzog, was explaining — all graciousness aside — to the President of the United States himself over the phone: «Wellsir, we won 108 and they won 99, so I have to tip my hat to»em.»

Not exact matches

While most rabbits remained rodents, the lovely and well - liked Albanian Tap - Dancing Rabbit was redesignated as a day - old loaf of bread.

What has been the reputation of the presidency since Garba Shehu told the world that rodents have taken over the office Mr. President while he was away for medicals in the United Kingdom?

While Mayor Bill de Blasio feebly tries to fight New York's booming rodent population by warning parkgoers not to feed the vermin, residents need no reminder at three apartment buildings...

While the disease remains a modest threat in rural, undeveloped areas, Green warns that our current stable relationship with plague in the developed world is only as good as our control of urban rodent populations.

The authors discovered this surprising gender disparity while investigating whether the presence of experimenters affects rodent pain studies.

Studies in rodents suggest that stress during pregnancy inhibits neural growth, while the children of women who lived in war zones during pregnancy have a higher risk of developing schizophrenia.

While studying the inflammatory mechanisms underlying colitis in rodents, a team of researchers led by Dana Philpott and Thierry Mallevaey realized that their laboratory mice were more susceptible to developing the disease if their intestines were already infected with the protozoan Tritrichomonas muris.

While trying to come up with a contagious method of birth control among rodent pests, an Australian lab in 2001 modified a mousepox virus, which, unintentionally, caused the rodents» immune system to fail completely — even in animals previously vaccinated against mousepox.

«Rodents are extremely olfactory,» Dulac says, while «humans are more sensitive to visual cues.

Rodents learn to put their heads under a microscope as a daily routine, letting researchers peer into their brains while the animals are relaxed and happy

While internal navigation is more complicated in mammals, it's important to understand a basic system like the one found in fruit flies, says Adrien Peyrache of McGill University in Montreal, who studies the neural basis of direction in rodents.

In rodents, differences in life expectancy and morbidity during aging are particularly high: Despite close relationships with regard to genetic aspects, small rodents like mice or rats live no longer than two to three years, whereas mole - rats or chinchillas have an average life span of 20 to 30 years while staying comparatively healthy.

At the alternate extremes, the mtDNA of small rodents diverges rather briskly, at around 5 per cent per million years, while that of whale species — such as the fin and humpback — has diverged at a mere half per cent per million years.

While there's been some research looking at how the neocortical surface of primates has increased over time, practically nothing prior to this has been done on rodents.

If a rodent lives on a mountain and warmer temperatures compel the animal to climb higher, it may run out of mountain while temperatures keep rising.

While animals such as certain monkeys, lizards, and rodents have soft, cylindrical - shaped tails, the tails of seahorses are organized into square prisms surrounded by bony plates.

In laboratory tests using rodents, White and his colleagues found that while morphine lost its pain - relieving effectiveness three weeks after nerve injury, a combination therapy of morphine and carbamazepine — used to prevent epileptic seizures — could effectively reverse this loss of drug action.

When the rodents drink poisoned sugar water that makes them nauseous, for example, they're likely to avoid such «treats» for a while.

But the addition of rapamycin to immunotherapy even for a short while also allowed the rodents to develop tumor - specific memory CD8 + T cells that remember the specific «signature» of the glioma tumor cells and attacked them swiftly when a tumor was introduced into the brain again.

While this study goes some way towards establishing a causal relationship between the gut microbiome and social behaviour in rodents, the extent to which these findings can relate to human neurodevelopmental conditions remains to be established.

All the while Bath has turned the system into a significant research tool on the Brown campus and beyond.In 2012, with funding from the Brown Institute for Brain Science through the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Scientific Innovation Fund, Serre and Bath opened their lab up as a «core» called the Rodent Neurodevelopmental Behavioral Testing Facility.

They fill the ecological niches occupied in other places by rodents and rabbits — some live in the desert, others in the rainforest, some are herbivorous, while others dine mostly on insects.

And while many residents in Chicago were likely celebrating the mild season, they are now dealing with the unpleasant after effects — rodents.

He noted that while no technique has emerged as a proven clinical approach, the use of human rather than rodent cells as demonstrated by Pollok et al. is an important step in advancing the science behind liver cell transplantation.

While most rodents tend to become obese on high - fat diets, there can be variable responses in weight gain, glucose tolerance, insulin resistance, triglycerides and other parameters depending on the strain.

But while these introduced rodents were well suited to city life, the mice native to America were not — at least, not at first.

And he and his lab are excited about new studies showing that fasting seems to strengthen normal cells in rodents while making cancer cells more vulnerable.

While the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) keeps track of many species used for testing — birds, dogs, cats, rabbits and even the rodent guinea pig — nobody in the United States keeps a comprehensive list of all the mice or rats used in research.

And while most sufferers fear things like spiders, rodents, confined spaces and public speaking, there are many weird and wonderful things that trigger fear in people.

While an animal model of depression may seem like an absurd idea, currently, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), an endotoxin produced by gram - negative bacteria, is used to induce these clinical models in rodents.

CB1 antagonists have been shown to decrease nicotine self - administration in rodent models of nicotine dependence.24 While CB1 agonists increase feeding in rats and humans, CB1 antagonists have been shown to have the opposite effect, significantly suppressing rats» food intake regardless of type of diet (standard lab chow, high fat or high carbohydrate).

While alternate - day fasting leads to calorie restriction over a two - day period in many rodent species, in some strains of mice, the animals managed to compensate for the calorie deficit created on fast days by increasing their intake on feast days twofold and thus keeping the total calorie intake over a two day period at the same level as in mice fed an ad libitum diet (17).

I have read articles that state while research shows benefits for male subjects (rodent and human alike), that longer periods of fasting were detrimental for females.

Numerous subsequent studies have confirmed that a calorie restriction of 30 to 60 percent of ad libitum intake increases the life span by similar amounts in a range of organisms including yeast, roundworms and rodents, while simultaneously decreasing or delaying the occurrence of age related diseases such as numerous cancers (including lymphomas, breast and prostate cancers), hypertension, stroke, diabetes, nephropathy, autoimmune disorders and other risks factors for cardiovascular disease (3,4).

While the recent research dealt with rodents, an earlier study examining the effect of turmeric on Alzheimer's patients produced equally promising results.

While several studies examining the effects of alcohol intake have been undertaken in rodents, the relative quantity of alcohol administered in these investigations is several fold higher than in the current human study [18], [21], [28]--[30].

While the largest species, the capybara, can weigh as much as 66 kg (146 lb), most rodents weigh less than 100 g (oz).

«Beach Rats» takes its title from a slang term for kids who aimlessly while away their days on the beaches where the sand of Brooklyn meets the water of the Atlantic, but Hittman doesn't treat her characters — particularly her lead, the sexually confused Frankie (Harris Dickinson)-- like rodents.

Almost all of the humour otherwise involves the pigeons flying into objects and one another and the smelly fat one (Ricky Gervais) burping and flatulating, while a late appearance by a pair of rodent French freedom fighters uncomfortably pings off the parents in the audience's cobwebbed memories of The Rescuers.

And there are a few sections that are transportingly lovely, in particular any sequence involving the pop star Gazelle (voiced by Shakira), and Hops» high - speed train ride towards and through Zootopia, which introduces the city's different terrains (including frozen tundra and misty rainforest) while leaving room for subsequent bits of spelunking (a foot chase through rodent town lets Hops know what it feels like to be a giant).

While children aren't involved with the following depiction, a rodent finds himself locked inside a microwave oven where he is about to be cooked.

While not quite as quiet as the proverbial church rodent, differentiating between Audi's turbodiesel V6 and the similarly configured supercharged TFSI gas engine also available is getting increasingly difficult.

WATCH WHILE I DO N'T GIVE A RODENT»S ARSE.

While mainly used to keep rodents and poisonous snakes away from homes and crops, some cats were trained specifically to keep pests from eating away at the papyrus rolls that contained texts.

It required said Master's but didn't pay enough for me to maintain a decent standard of living (a shared flat without rodents, a diet that didn't consist of 50 % instant noodles) while repaying my $ 130,000 in student debt that I naively took on between my two degrees, honored to have been accepted to my «reach» schools with just a bit in the way of scholarships.