Sentences with phrase «affected animals at»

Your ferret may acquire ear mites from other affected animals at home, or at the breeder, pet store or animal shelter.

As well as George, there are similarly affected animals at various locations in North America — a wolf somewhere in the vast landscape of Montana, and an alligator in the waters of Florida.

However, if the dog / bitch is identified as an affected animal at an early age, it is possible to take steps to prevent / minimise the possibility of it developing clinical disease.

Not exact matches

«Nutritionists, political economists and epidemiologists at Oxford will study how animal foods affect health and the environment and they will then work with Sainsbury's to present those findings in ways people can understand,» said Sarah Molton, head of Our Planet, Our Health.

So the animal studies give us only a hint at how early experience can affect development — the way human babies are treated by caregivers has even more effects on them than for any other animal because they are born so immature.

From the Thoughtful Animal Archives: Hyenas Give Up Eating Garbage for Lent, Hunt Donkeys Instead Silver Spoon Hyenas: Maternal Social Status Affects Male Reproductive Success Photo taken October 11, 2013 at the San Diego Zoo with a Canon 60D and Canon 75 - 300 mm f / 4.0 - 5.6 -LSB-...]

In a new study, researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science examined how the interaction of two genomes in animal cells — the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes — interact to affect adaptation of the Atlantic killifish to different temperatures.

Arnold Kriegstein, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, also argues that though the scientists found inhibitory interneurons strikingly depleted in the brains of the oxygen - deprived piglets, this alone can not account for the dramatic shrinking of the animals» overall brain size and the diminished number of cortical folds «The interneurons are part of the story but not the entire story of how the brain is affected by this kind of [lack of oxygen].»

In animal models or petri dishes, scientists disable one gene at a time to see how it affects the proposed network.

From a bat's wings to an elephant's cancer resistance, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at University of Utah Health are using animals» unique traits to pinpoint regions of the human genome that might affect health.

«We might not have known urchins and six - armed sea stars were affected if lab - held animals hadn't died right in front of us,» said the study's lead author Laura Jurgens, a graduate student at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory who earned her doctorate in May.

To better understand how HMGA1 affected the rodents» intestines, Resar and Lingling Xian, M.D., Ph.D., research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and their colleagues examined the transgenic animals» intestinal cells to determine which ones were expressing this gene.

• A touch of monkey business affected our article on technology for animals: orang - utans become sexually active at 8 years, and it is human visitors — not other apes — that juveniles enjoy poking with sticks (29 November, p 44).

Rather than looking at animals linked to specific outbreaks, they are considering all the creatures that the affected regions have in common.

The study's lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that previous research in wild animals has generally ignored how this change in behaviour may affect social contacts in a group and how, in turn, these changes can impact the transmission of a disease.

• A touch of monkey business affected our article on technology for animals: orang - utans become sexually active at 8 years,...

Professor Andrew Scott, one of the lead authors, said: «High oxygen levels in the atmosphere at this time has been proposed for some time and may be why there were giant insects and arthropods at this time but our research indicates that there was a significant impact on the prevalence and scale of wildfires across the globe and this would have affected not only the ecology of the plants and animals but also their evolution.»

Animals that rely on river conditions at a certain time of year in order to breed or find food could be affected by surprise floods.

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have, for the first time, visualized the origins of cancer from the first affected cell and watched its spread in a live animal.

Using X-ray crystallography, performed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, Cusack and colleagues were able to determine the atomic structure of the whole polymerase from two strains of influenza: influenza B, one of the strains that cause seasonal flu in humans, but which evolves slowly and therefore isn't considered a pandemic threat; and the strain of influenza A — the fast - evolving strain that affects humans, birds and other animals and can cause pandemics — that infects bats.

The study, recently published in the journal Ecology Letters, reveals that contrary to expectation, the massive glaciers that expanded and contracted across the region affected animal populations in different ways at different times.

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.

The study looked at a way to substitute animal - based saturated fats for plant - based unsaturated fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Because the timing of those life - history milestones can be affected by various environmental pressures, the tusks provide a way to «look directly at how the animals themselves were impacted by, and responded to, changes in their environment,» Cherney said.

«Non-linear» animal reactions He and his colleagues based their analysis on nearly 500 million temperature records collected at 3,000 weather stations between 1961 and 2009, feeding that information into models that allowed them to estimate how climate shifts affected the metabolism of cold - blooded insects, lizards and amphibians around the world.

According to Richard Goldstein, a kidney specialist at Cornell University's Animal Health Diagnostic Center, all of the animals affected by the recall showed similar signs of the poisoning.

«Through this study, the pandas at the San Diego Zoo have made a significant contribution to our understanding of what may be affecting panda reproduction in habitats in China,» said Ron Swaisgood, director of applied animal ecology, San Diego Zoo Global.

Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals.

Curious how higher - CO2 conditions would affect this ability, researchers placed the animals in water tanks with different levels of carbon dioxide and shone lights at various flickering rates.

But Michael Hutchins, the director of conservation and science at the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, finds the methodology «highly simplistic» because it fails to address varying zoo conditions and management that can greatly affect animal welfare.

«While there may have been some speculation that the shape of the seahorse tail allows the animals to grasp objects more tightly, past research has concentrated more on how the tail's complex musculoskeletal organization, not its shape, affects grasping,» said co-author Dominique Adriaens, a professor in the department of evolutionary morphology at Ghent University in Belgium.

But at least one mental malady, while common in humans, seems to have spared other animals: schizophrenia, which affects an estimated 0.4 to 1 percent of adults.

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.

In an operant test R6 / 2 transgenic mice (240 - CAG repeats, B6 congenic background) were less able to acquire lever pressing than control animals at an age where motor function is only mildly affected (from 9 weeks), with this deficit being both more pronounced and detected earlier (from 5 weeks) where reinforcement was not solely contingent on responding.

«We're looking for fossils of backboned animals that were living in Antarctica at the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs, so we can learn more about how the devastating extinction that happened right afterward might have affected polar ecosystems.»

By comparison, canine transmissible venereal tumor, a sexually transmitted form of cancer that only affects dogs, has been around for at least 11,000 years and is generally not fatal to domesticated animals.

«This study provides evidence that, in animals, a fathers» body weight at the time of conception affects both their daughters» body weight both at birth and in childhood as well as their risk of breast cancer later in life,» says the study's lead investigator, Sonia de Assis, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi.

Basic research presentations at 2016 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions: cell therapy for heart attack (mesenchymal stem cells) in animal models and role of CD73, gradual release drug for atrial fibrillation, how particles from stored blood affects blood vessels.

Other U.S. dietary guidelines that adversely affect health have been more successful at convincing Americans to substitute vegetable oils for animal fats, based on the disproven notion that saturated fat intake increases CVD risk.

Most at risk is the developing foetus, and in the studied animals rats were most affected.

Now, you can see for yourself — in bite - sized trailer form, at least — whether you're as affected by Lanthimos» tale of a sad - sack divorcee (Colin Farrell) who's forced to attend a government - run resort where single people are transformed into animals by a relationship - minded bureaucracy.

Lanthimos («The Lobster») starts off with an in - surgery shot of a beating, open heart — glistening with fat, it seems like a moving animal — and things go reeling from there: the uniform, intentional flat - affect performances (particularly Martin, who's both numbingly intense and not - quite - present); the high - angle camerawork, in which the characters sometimes seem to be at the bottom of a too - brightly - lit fishbowl; the slow movement away from familiar settings and emotions.

In a film at least ancillary about evolution (the fifth this summer behind Evolution, A.I., Jurassic Park III, and, arguably, The Animal), it seems piquant that this Planet of the Apes is actually a good deal dumber (with the exception of a wry cameo by former NRA - head Charlton Heston) than the 1968 original, its stupefaction affected to accommodate, I suspect, Hollywood's prevailing view that the viewing public has gotten denser in the intervening years.

→ If animals have urinated in the house, replace the affected carpeting or flooring, eliminating the odour at its source.

Because of the public's differing concept on how animal's needs are best met, it falls on the staff at San Diego Humane Society after a complaint is filed to visit the residence and make the determination on whether or not the pet owner is complying with the law, as well as to educate the public on current laws affecting companion animals.

At the end of the day, it is well within PETA's rights to try to affect change in companies with practices that adversely affect animals.

Services We Provide At Ophthalmology For Animals, we specialize in the treatment of all conditions that could affect the eyes of your pet.

Because affected animals may have several of these abnormalities present at one time, your veterinarian will either examine your pet under anesthesia or refer you to a specialist for the examination.

Veterinary technicians will be celebrating NVTW in a variety of ways: Technicians will volunteer at shelters, organize fundraisers as many organizations are still collecting funds to offset the expenses they incurred helping animals and their owners affected by the hurricanes last year.

I take issue with lack of exercise and overweight comment, i have two german shepherds 1 is over 12 the other will be 10 in june, my eldest started to creak at 10 my vets words, the other is fine at the moment, both of these dogs have been walked for miles every day of their lives until the elder 1 started to slow down, he has been treated with all the usual drugs until they affected his stomach, i am fortunate that my vet had a vet who is qualified in acupuncture for animals, my dog has responded very well he has a very good quality of life and is happy, it is worth giving it a try or see if you dog is suitable for this, not every dog responds but it worked for mine without it he would not be here.