Sentences with phrase «affected animals as»

First, dogs may not develop signs until late in life, making it difficult to avoid using affected animals as breeding stock.

DM (Degenerative Myelopathy) is a debilitating neurological condition which results in crippling of some affected animals as they enter their elder years.

Frostbite affects animals as well as people.

It mainly affects animals as they reach older age.

Dozens of drugs affect thyroid function and thyroid function tests in people, so many others likely affect animals as well.

Not exact matches

To think of the self relationally is to think of its very existence as affected or constituted by the world external to the body, that is, by other humans, by plants and other animals, by the earth, and by the sky.

Some evolutionary social scientists refer to our species as «the moral animal,» which I suppose means that we have the potential to reflect on the affects of our behavior rather than simply be blindly driven by survivalist insticts.

Another — one that acknowledges that human beings are, as William Hazlitt once put it, poetical animals, that we are deeply affected by beauty and form — would be to cultivate in Christian circles an understanding of true beauty.

The evil actions of one animal may affect many, such as a bobcat killing a mother duck may lead to the death of her newborn ducklings.

It makes me so sad when people claim that vegans / vegetarians care more about animals than people, because making good food choices affects humanity just as much as it does the animals... by the way, that bowl looks divine!

Caryn Hartglass: Well as this message becomes more popular, this vegan message, animal rights, how our food choices affect health and environment and treatment of animals, it's becoming more popular thanks to the Internet I think, primarily.

Our team of campaigners work hard to keep on top of all the issues affecting animals in Australia but, as a small charity with limited time and resources, we simply can not act on everything.

There is also an opportunity to teach your preschooler about science, as you point out what makes each season different and how these changes affect all living things — for example, in the fall trees lose their leaves, many animals begin to hibernate, the weather gets colder, the sun isn't out for as long.

In this regard, it seems appropriate to donate a portion of our sales to a non-profit that affects healthy living for our kids, as well as a non-profit tied to the animals that we love.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

Riordan & Wambach (2012) state, «Human milk is similar to unstructured living tissue, such as blood, and is capable or transporting nutrients, affecting biochemical systems, enhancing immunity, and destroying pathogens» They they go on to say, «Breastmilk, like all other animal milks, is species - specific.

The two villages already have formed their own committee to study environmental issues, such as how the projects affect animal and plant life.

While caring for animals affected by human activity such as overfishing, habitat degradation, plastic pollution and rising ocean temperatures, the team seeks to increase public engagement and advocacy along with inspire new individuals to make a difference.

«You can argue that the animals that are affected by rodenticide are weaker,» Thompson says, «and that the predation rates on them, as I suspect, are higher.»

Beside the health and wellbeing of the animals, heat stress also affects performance and, as a result, profitability.

As noted by Dr. Vicki Ellingrod — the Chair of this session, «Current state - of - the - art research in both animal models as well as humans point to the link between the gut microbiota and mood and anxiety models, as well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.&raquAs noted by Dr. Vicki Ellingrod — the Chair of this session, «Current state - of - the - art research in both animal models as well as humans point to the link between the gut microbiota and mood and anxiety models, as well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.&raquas well as humans point to the link between the gut microbiota and mood and anxiety models, as well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.&raquas humans point to the link between the gut microbiota and mood and anxiety models, as well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.&raquas well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.&raquas the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.»

Polar bears, the poster - child for climate change, are among the animals most affected by the seasonal and year - to - year changes in Arctic sea ice, because they rely on this surface for essential activities such as hunting, traveling and breeding.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

The extinction of the large animals took place in virtually all climate zones and affected cold - adapted species such as woolly mammoths, temperate species such as forest elephants and giant deer, and tropical species such as giant cape buffalo and some giant sloths.

«It would also be great to apply this type of experiment to other questions, such as how different environments affect the amount of predation that prey animals experience.»

The researchers from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health ranked the top 100 pathogens affecting humans and the top 100 affecting domestic animals using a system which, they believe, will help governments across the continent plan for risks associated with the spread of infectious diseases, including as a result of climate change, and for biosecurity.

VSV, an animal virus that primarily affects cattle, has been successfully tested as an experimental vaccine platform against several viruses.

«By grouping waterbirds, such as plant - eating birds and fish - eating birds, we showed that the degradation affected a wide range of different plants and animals in the wetlands; declines in these waterbirds means their food levels are also falling,» says Professor Kingsford, who is Director of the UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science.

And we suspect that these life experiences can alter the expression of genes, and as a result, affect an animal's susceptibility to stress,» says senior author Bruce McEwen, Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology.

Land loss also affects marine plants and animals as well as how pollution is absorbed and broken down.

Ruedas — who has traveled around the world studying small mammals and discovering new species — said the rabbit discovery in South America could affect how animal species are identified as unique, which is an important step when determining if a species is endangered.

If confirmed and extended to animals, the new findings could profoundly affect biomedicine as well as population genetics.

Other research has shown that caffeine affects the circadian clock in animals such as fruit flies.

We know less about how genes affect behavior as animals go about their normal routines.

As the sun peeks over the horizon at the Tutakoke River field camp in Alaska's Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, chambers dot a field used to study how a warmer Arctic is affecting migratory animals and the tundra plants they feed on.

Too much of the essential element is as dangerous as too little, either case adversely affecting health in animals from humans to mice to fruit flies.

Excessive protein and animal fat consumption might similarly indirectly negatively affect butyrate production as they stimulate non-butyrate-producing species which are very good in utilising this type of food source (such as Bacteroides).»

Although dogs» individual personalities are bound to affect their group's behaviour somehow, animal psychologists have long been unclear as to whether a group of dogs — playing in a park, say — is governed by the behaviours that evolved in their ancestors.

FMD primarily affects cloven - hoofed animals, such as cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats, where it causes large lesions on the feet and inside the mouth.

The study builds on existing research to better understand the etiology of compulsive disorders in animals such as CCD, which affects Doberman pinschers and other canine breeds.

Yet now researchers are learning that just as human quirks and temperaments shape our lives and the world around us, the behavior patterns of individual animals affect their role in their ecosystem, their prospects for survival, and, ultimately, their evolution.

According to a study published in the journal Paleobiology, as weather patterns in the region changed, the land started to dry out and affect the animals» food supply.

But because the concentrations that affected the animals were so small — 30 times lower than the current allowable limit in drinking water — the findings support the use of amphibians as environmental sentinels.

Using an animal model of this syndrome, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered that mutations in PTEN affect the assembly of connections between two brain areas important for the processing of social cues: the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with complex cognitive processes such as moderating social behavior, and the amygdala, which plays a role in emotional processing.

In their new study Mark Grabowski and William Jungers concentrated on the estimation of body mass, a feature that affects almost all aspects of an animal's biology such as energy requirements, diet, locomotion and behavior.

The mutation affects a receptor for a signaling molecule called netrin that is involved in one of the best - studied pathways in developmental neuroscience, she says, but all of that work has been done in animals such as mice, worms, and fruit flies.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, also known as prion diseases) are a group of progressive conditions that affect the brain and nervous system of humans and animals and are transmitted by prions.

But because the vinclozolin - induced fertility changes occurred in almost every male rat descended from a treated mother rather than in a small percentage of offspring (as is seen in germ line mutations caused by radiation), Skinner suspects an epigenetic mechanism — a change that doesn't mutate the DNA sequence of an animal, but rather affects how genes are expressed.

PCR results were positive from post-necropsy liver and lung tissues as well as from sera, conjunctival swabs, oral swabs, and nasal swabs collected at time of quarantine in 8 different affected monkeys, but were negative from a throat swab from an asymptomatic animal whose other 5 cage mates had become sick.

They suggest that future studies incorporating animal models of childhood obesity take place over longer periods to determine how inactivity during youth contributes to adult consequences of obesity and whether interventions, such as reintroducing exercise, can affect this trajectory.