Sentences with phrase «animal diseases into»

To prevent the entry and spread of foreign animal diseases into our country, pets entering the United States from other countries may need to meet specific APHIS requirements.

If we are looking for the real engine for infection — the driver of the disease factory, if you like — we have to understand what human - to - human transmission is, and how it turns an animal disease into a human one.

Not exact matches

The drugs, which could be administered in both feed and water, helped shield the livestock from disease, which also allowed farmers to pack more animals into barns and transformed old - fashioned agriculture into its modern industrialized form.

So, if you have dropsy, gout, or jaundice, by including some of your warm blood in the shell and white of an egg, which, exposed to a gentle heat, and mixed with a bait of flesh, you shall give to a hungry dog or hog, the disease shall instantly pass from you into the animal, and leave you entirely.

Last September The War Cry noted that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) had agreed in principle to allow the mixing of animal and human genetic material for research into incurable diseases and that the resultant 99.9 per cent human mixture would be human bits, not human beings.

At a time global health experts are urging people to eat less meat to combat chronic diseases, live exporters are actively encouraging increased meat consumption by pushing more animals into more countries.

If they thoroughly clean all equipment which comes into contact with domestic or wild animals, then they will not transmit the disease.

Leendertz and colleagues from several different scientific disciplines traveled to Meliandou hoping to find the animal source, or reservoir, and learn more about how the disease might have spilled over into humans.

In their always engrossing, often grotesque account, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy trace the illness's history, detailing the many futile methods of combating the disease (including the original «hair of the dog:» binding into a patient's wound a hair from the animal that infected him) before Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine became the first effective treatment in 1885.

In the case of the avian flu epidemic that broke out in December 2003 and continued into the fall of 2004, 43 of the 44 people known to have contracted the disease appeared to have done so directly from animals.

In animal studies, they found evidence for liver injury preceding increases in intestinal permeability; suggesting that bacteria and bacterial products from the gut move into the bloodstream, which in turn worsens the liver disease.

The researchers have now provided further evidence for this new theory by showing that the abnormal protein coded for this genetic disorder can be transmitted to normal animals by the injection of diseased cells into their brain.

Most animals lack the gene to convert omega - 6 fatty acids — which, when eaten in large amounts, contribute to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and arthritis in humans — into healthier omega - 3s.

It has proven impossible to prevent the spread of DFTD and only a successful vaccine will allow captive, immunised animals to be released into the wild, eventually eradicating the disease.»

The finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Medicine, raises new questions about whether people could contract exotic diseases if animal organs become routinely transplanted into human patients.

She kept feeding the new data into mathematical models that factored in the animals» age, migration patterns and disease prevalence in the population, among other things.

People often think of E. Coli poisoning as a beef - eater's disease, but the outbreak linked to raw spinach is a tragic reminder that the bacteria often spread through animal droppings into produce growers» water, soil or fertilizer.

«Understanding the evolution of malaria parasites in bats and other animals, and how they fit into the tree of life, is key to understanding this important human disease.»

«Fear of the unknown, fear of animals, fear of getting lost, fear of crime, fear of disease, all kinds of different fears that might come into play and to what extent they might play into the decline.»

«Mapping the genome jungle: Unique animal traits could offer insight into human disease.»

Scientists broke down and rebuilt the immune systems of mice with diseases that mimic type 1 diabetes and MS.. The treatment stopped the progress of diabetes in four out of five mice and put animals with a disease similar to MS into remission,

Debates are now erupting over the benefits and ecological risks of releasing such insects into the wild — and whether gene drives could also thwart invasive species such as Asian carp and cane toads, or combat other animal - borne pathogens such as the one causing Lyme disease.

Surprisingly that did not translate into protection from flu infection or fatal disease in the obese animals,» Schultz - Cherry said.

The worms could then be crushed and injected into animal models of different autoimmune diseases, and so could the «soup.»

He added that the existence of episodic memory in lower animals has implications for research on human diseases that affect memory, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, since the majority of research on the brain — and the drugs used to treat memory diseases and dementia — start out based on insights into how the brain works in rats.

Patrik Verstreken: «Our research into brain diseases is not possible without animal models.

They injected into mice with an inflammatory skin disease both mutated and healthy immune cells and succeeded in comparing the paths taken by each of the cells inside the same animal.

Because the molecule must be injected into the brain, this kind of chemical - based fMRI won't be applied to humans anytime soon, says Jasanoff, but it could be used to probe addiction and disease using animals.

«Therefore, by understanding how gill immunity works, we hope to find better ways to deliver vaccines into the gills of these animals and induce protective immunity to infectious diseases.»

When the deformed pancreas proteins were injected into mice without type 2 diabetes, the animals developed symptoms of the disease, including overly high blood sugar levels, the researchers report online August 1 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

«This animal study is the first to identify a treatment that slows the disease once symptoms have already appeared, a significant finding that offers insight into the disease mechanism and important therapeutic potential,» notes study co-author Jeffrey Rothstein of Johns Hopkins University.

It cause animal brains to turn into a spongy mess in scrapie, a disease of sheep, and in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or «mad cow disease»), as well as in human prion diseases such as CJD.

Next - generation sequencing — the ability to sequence millions or billions of small fragments of DNA in parallel — has revolutionized the biological sciences, playing an essential role in everything from locating mutations that cause human disease to determining how a newly discovered animal fits into the tree of life.

In Oklahoma, farm workers are mixing manure from swine sick with the disease, known as Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), into the food of healthy animals to build their immunity.

To test this in an animal that is more closely related to humans, investigators in Japan directed iPSCs taken from a monkey to develop into certain neurons that are depleted in Parkinson's disease patients.

This discovery provides a significant opportunity not only to enhance our understanding of how miRNAs regulate a variety of biological processes in an important model species for studying human diseases, but can lead to further, similar research into the role that miRNAs play in animal domestication.

Our results establish planarians as an experimentally tractable animal model for research into the pathophysiology of acute porphyrias, and potentially for the identification of novel pharmacological interventions capable of alleviating porphyrin - mediated photosensitivity or decoupling dieting and fasting from disease pathogenesis.

The University of Texas Medical Branch, with whom Sandia enjoys a years - long partnership, together with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., are providing Sandia with expert insight into toxins and diseases at animal lab facilities.

Professor Bruno D'Agostino from the University of Naples said: «For many years, my research group has been working on the role of nociceptin in the regulation of airway responsiveness in animal models, and it is very interesting translating our results into clinic area regarding asthma, a disease that is forecast to grow over the next years.»

The animal model which was used to examine the long - term effects of metabolic syndrome * enabled the scientists to elucidate new mechanisms that cause fatty liver disease and also show how it can develop into liver cancer.

Parasites and disease are a huge component of the lives of modern animals, dinosaurs would be no different, and now we have another small insight into how such interactions might have looked.

The robust immunomodulatory capabilities of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have propelled them into animal studies and preliminary clinical trials as a treatment for a series of immunological diseases.

Zoonoses had once been seen primarily as the result of untamed nature, the byproduct of humans moving into wild places and encountering animals with disease.

Then they injected the blood into other animals infected with the diseases.

If they removed the sequence, dubbed CNS2, Tregs became unstable and often morphed into killer T cells — the type of cell they are supposed to be controlling — resulting in autoimmune disease in animal models.

Not only were Miconazole and clobetasol able to stimulate the differentiation of stem cells into mature oligodendrocytes, most importantly, these drugs stimulated the formation of new insulation (myelin) and reversed disease severity in animal models of MS.. While not all adult tissues in our body contain stem cells, this approach may change the way MS is managed.

The new study shows that a protein infused into the bloodstream, can improve the healing properties of stem cell therapy in animal models of the disease.

«Using an animal model that's relevant to human disease, Fouchier and Kawaoka have shown that relatively few mutations may be required for an influenza virus to evolve into astrain that can pass effectively between individuals and cause serious illness.

Among the newly funded investigations are: the development of animal models of diabetic eye disease to learn how fenofibrate, a drug clinically - approved to treat cholesterol, protects the eye from diabetes - related damage; the development of a specialized camera to capture how the retina's rods and cones (responsible for turning light energy into shapes and colors) work in health and how they fail in retinal diseases; and the exploration of mechanisms by which intestinal tract bacteria impact the health of the eye.

Critical to ethical review is a cost / benefit analysis; the welfare cost to the animals must be balanced by the benefit of knowledge gained into gene function and the role of genes in human health and disease.