Sentences with phrase «adults than rats»

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Originally, Silverman and Baumann planned to use only male rats in their pilot studies because the cost of including both sexes would be substantial; housing and feeding a single adult rat runs to more than a dollar a day.

A new study in rats shows that lacing a penis graft with adult stem cells yields better healing and sexual function than using the graft alone.

Scientists have known for years that the neurons in adult rats, which are significant but fewer in numbers than during puberty, could be saved with learning, but they did not know if this would be the case for young rats that produce two to four times more neurons than adult animals.

Adult rats living in disrupted environments produce fewer new brain cells than rats in stable societies, supporting theories that unstable conditions impair mental health and cognition

Back in 2011, for example, her lab demonstrated that beta cells in newborn rats are immature cells with very different gene expression and function than adult beta cells.

It is true that adult rats require much less protein to maintain nitrogen balance than young, growing rats require to maximize growth.

Research from the Society for Neuroscience found that adult rats that were allowed to exercise regularly on a running wheel grew new brain cells and tested better on memory exercises than rats that did not run.

That means I need to find ways to increase BDNF more than in someone with the normal gene in order to preserve my cognitive function, memory, and emotional regulation.8 Mu, J.S., et al. «Deprivation of Endogenous Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor Results in Impairment of Spatial Learning and Memory in Adult... continue 9Cirulli, F., et al. «Intrahippocampal Administration of BDNF in Adult Rats Affects Short - term Behavioral Plasticity in the Morris Water Maze and... continue

Most amino acid concentrations (Ile, Leu, Met, Thr) were higher during the postprandial state than during the postabsorptive state, and this increase was similar in adult and old rats.

Epitrochlearis protein breakdown was higher in old rats than in adult rats [0.73 ± 0.04 and 0.63 ± 0.02 nmol Tyr / (mg protein · h), respectively, P = 0.05].

From neonatal kittens, puppies with ringworm, or pets with injuries and medical conditions — to small companion pets like rabbits and rats, and adult dogs and cats needing an environment other than the shelter — hundreds of foster families opened their hearts and homes to thousands of pets from our shelter this past year.