Sentences with phrase «animal blood at»

I started experiencing some really weird Twilight movie scenarios and decided it was time to snack on some fruit (my equivalent of animal blood at this point).

Not exact matches

If you think eating animals is murder, or if you feel abortion before 24 weeks is murder, thats fine, but leave your feelings at home along with your buckets of cow blood you planned on throwing at people who don't share your «feelings».

I looked at Leviticus ch 7 and there was no reference there to a milk offering rather than a blood offering and to do with the skin of the animal, that was to be given to the priest.

At the same time, he insisted that it is quite wrong for us to inflict any unnecessary suffering on animals — which was why he opposed «blood sports,» although he was not a vegetarian.

And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.

While I'm not a vegan (frustratingly my family has a actual genetic flaw that means at least minimal animal based protein OR frequent blood transfusions.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Researchers at the European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing developed five different tests that use human blood cells to detect contaminants in drugs that cause a potentially dangerous fever response.

To get around those limitations, Hirt and her colleagues looked at previously collected data for a wide variety of creatures, including ectotherms (so - called cold - blooded animals) as well as warm - blooded endotherms.

One such unexplained trend is that warm - blooded land animals are usually faster than cold - blooded creatures of comparable size, whereas at sea the reverse is usually true.

It infected four people at an animal facility in Reston, Virginia, in November 1989, but no one fell ill; the infections were detectable only through blood tests.

Blood circulation at the wound site in the treated animals also improved.

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.

Heat - not - burn devices may eliminate users» exposure to tobacco smoke, but the vapor they produce has the same negative impact on blood vessel function as smoking, according to a preliminary animal study presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2017, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in cardiovascular science for researchers and clinicians.

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.

«What we have discovered are factors responsible for keeping that process perfectly coordinated in at least one type of cold - blooded animal.»

«The chemicals produced by cooking meats at high temperatures induce oxidative stress, inflammation and insulin resistance in animal studies, and these pathways may also lead to an elevated risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Gang Liu, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

Investigators sent tissue and blood samples to Michael McIntosh at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Greenport, N.Y. McIntosh says he was surprised to find that the tissue samples also contained the Reston strain, which had not been previously identified in swine.

«Enzymes and bacteria typical of our warm - blooded meat animals normally work at 100 degrees Fahrenheit and slow to a crawl in a refrigerator at 40 °F.

Researchers at Scripps and other institutions began testing blood samples from these individuals in animals and found that they were producing broadly neutralizing antibodies capable of eliminating most of the HIV varieties, says Crotty.

Mark Gladwin, a researcher in pulmonary medicine at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in Bethesda, Maryland, says that the nitrite levels in the Tibetans» blood are similar to those NHLBI researchers are using to treat heart and liver injuries caused when blood is restored to oxygen - deprived tissues in experimental aniBlood Institute (NHLBI) in Bethesda, Maryland, says that the nitrite levels in the Tibetans» blood are similar to those NHLBI researchers are using to treat heart and liver injuries caused when blood is restored to oxygen - deprived tissues in experimental aniblood are similar to those NHLBI researchers are using to treat heart and liver injuries caused when blood is restored to oxygen - deprived tissues in experimental aniblood is restored to oxygen - deprived tissues in experimental animals.

«With this very early impact on the heart, you end up with an animal that just can't pump blood through its body as well, which means it can't swim as well to capture food, form schools, or migrate,» said Mark Carls, toxicologist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

The image has been commended in the category «Behaviour: Cold - blooded Animals» at this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Powers is planning expand his study size and is partnering with another CCTS - funded stroke investigator who developed an animal model of ischemia in order to analyze micro-RNA released in brain tissues at the precise area around a blocked blood vessel.

When the group injected nanoparticles with and without the passport at the same time, 35 minutes later those with CD47 peptides were four times as abundant in the animals» blood as the control nanoparticles were.

As part of a DNA study of the world's cats, Stephen O'Brien and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Frederick, Maryland, collected blood and tissue samples from 209 puma in zoos, museums, and the wild across North and Central America, and from 106 of the animals in South America.

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.»

This soluble factor was found at higher levels in the blood of animals with lung tumors, could increase the activation of osteoblasts and contributed to the maturation of neutrophils in cultured cells.

Under the traditional system, for example, mammals might be defined as warm - blooded animals with hair and mammary glands (in fact, there's no single definition, and at least 10 have been used over the years).

Ticks are blood - sucking parasites that are often found in tall grass, where they will rest themselves at the tip of a blade so as to attach themselves to a passing animal.

Cold - blooded animals like lizards, insects and fish have a preferred body temperature range at which they hunt, eat, move quickly and reproduce.

Chris Wemmer, director of research at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo in Washington, has seen mahouts in Nepal stabbing their animals» heads with their ankuses (short spears, with a hook on one side) until they run with blood: «It was especially bad when we used the elephants to round up rhinos to put them into reserves.

For the animal experiments, Savio Woo of the Center for Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and his colleagues first isolated liver cells from transgenic mice that produce the human protein a1 - antitrypsin in their livers, from where it is secreted into the blood.

When investigators looked at grizzly bears, they found that, unlike in humans, insulin levels in the animals» blood do not change.

A sample of an animal's breath is much easier to obtain, and researchers believe it contains as many diagnostic molecules as blood, just at lower concentrations that are much harder to detect and analyze.

«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.

«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.

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.

In fact, for the blood to reach the brain it has to be pumped at the highest pressure of any animal.

In brief, STZ (Sigma - Aldrich) was diluted in sodium citrate buffer (10 mM, pH 4.5) and injected i.p. at 110 mg / kg per day for a consecutive 2 d. 1 mo after treatment, pancreas from fasted animals with a blood glucose level > 500 mg / dL was collected and used as inoculum for i.p. injections.

To investigate whether induction of IAPP aggregation leads to some of the clinical alterations typically observed in patients with T2D, we measured fasting blood glucose at different times after inoculation in the same animals used for IAPP histological analysis shown above.

At that key point, Takebe added two more types of cell known to help to recreate organ - like function in animals: endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, taken from an umbilical cord; and mesenchymal cells, which can differentiate into bone, cartilage or fat, taken from bone marrow.

Animals fasted for 16 h were injected with 1 g / kg body weight of glucose i.p., and blood glucose level was monitored subsequently at different time intervals.

The American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology focuses on the physiology of the heart, blood vessels and lymphatics, including experimental and theoretical studies of cardiovascular function at all levels of organization ranging from the intact animal to the cellular, subcellular and molecular levels.

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.

The scientists also have demonstrated in animals that the PKal molecular pathway can induce retinal edema through mechanisms that are independent of the VEGF pathway, which at normal levels helps to build and maintain blood vessels but at high concentrations can induce abnormal vessel growth and contribute to DME.

«We thought that Lythron, or gore in Greek, exemplified its presumed lifestyle as a predator with its head covered in the blood of a dead animal,» lead author Mark Loewen, a research associate at the Natural History Museum of Utah, told Discovery News.

Blood levels of all three chemicals were within the range at which BPA causes health effects in animals, vom Saal notes.