Sentences with phrase «animal experiments at»

Cilene Lino de Oliveira will continue to advocate and champion the principles of the 3Rs and ethics in the handling of animal experiments at her university.

Animal experiments were approved by ethical committee on animal experiments at National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India (Regd.

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Animal Research: For nearly four decades, the animal liberation movement has been at war with medical research conducted on animals — even though conducting such experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial human rights protection established in the NurembergAnimal Research: For nearly four decades, the animal liberation movement has been at war with medical research conducted on animals — even though conducting such experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial human rights protection established in the Nuremberganimal liberation movement has been at war with medical research conducted on animals — even though conducting such experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial human rights protection established in the Nuremberg Code.

So we can look at what happens to other animals in experiments and to correlational trends.

In addition to the abuses that take place as a normal part of an experiment's protocol, the government's annual report noted at least 34 cases of non-compliance or failure to meet even the bare minimum standards of animal care set forth in the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

Regulators could ban experiments involving animals, like this white rat, at Indian universities, under a proposed animal welfare law.

«[These are] basic data about animal use and compliance that taxpayers have a right to access, particularly when it comes to taxpayer - funded labs,» says Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy at the White Coat Waste Project, a Washington, D.C. — based group that opposes taxpayer - funded animal experiments.

In another animal microbiome experiment, Jeffrey Gordon, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, took a suite of microbes from the guts of both obese and lean mice and transplanted them into the guts of microbe - free mice.

Laboratory experiments on animals indicate that as doses decrease, less and less damage escapes DNA - repair mechanisms, says Yoshihisa Matsumoto, a radiation biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Dennis Turner, an evolutionary biologist who studies companion animals at the Institute for Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, says the experiment only loosely resembles real - life adoptions, so more work needs to be done before he's convinced.

One of the earliest compelling studies to suggest a relationship between diabetes and air pollution was an animal experiment published in 2009 in Circulation from researchers at Ohio State University and other institutions.

This experiment suggested that longevity in calorie - restricted animals was «related to food consumption rather than to the degree of adiposity,» Harrison wrote at the time.

At the Galveston National Laboratory, which houses a biosafety level 4 lab, researchers shut down experiments, euthanized infected animals, put pathogens in cold storage, and autoclaved cell cultures.

Still, in December of last year the agency announced that it would phase out monkey experiments at the lab, though it blamed finances, not animal rights or congressional pressure.

To get around some of these limitations, a team led by Rachael Shaw, an animal behavior researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, turned to a population of New Zealand North Island robins for a new round of experiments.

Experiments demonstrated that, even after being stored at 40ºC for 6 months, their rabies vaccine protected animals from viral infection.

In the initial set of experiments, the animals were presented with a pair of images — for example a star and a ball — and could freely chose to look at one image or the other, with their choice measured by their eye movement.

Last April, activists entered an animal facility at the University of Milan, released mice and rabbits, and destroyed experiments.

Thanks to a temporary extension granted last week to his animal experiments license, Andreas Kreiter, a neuroscientist at the University of Bremen, can continue his primate research for now — at least when he's not tied up explaining his work to journalists.

Albeanu and colleagues, including Arkarup Banerjee and Fred Marbach, graduate students in the Watson School for Biological Sciences at CSHL and co-first authors of the Neuron paper, conducted experiments in living animals that revealed a mechanism for adjusting olfactory signal gain.

Suresh Yenugu, an assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) in India, needed computer - assisted sperm analysis equipment to measure sperm quality and motility for an experiment he was working on, but he couldn't afford it.

It is just one of hundreds of compounds that have shown great promise in animal experiments — such as helping rats learn their way around mazes — yet seem to produce at best only marginal effects in patients.

In the United States, even preliminary experiments with ranching using sound as a herding signal attracted a lawsuit over fears feeding the animals could cause pollution and disrupt ecosystems (see: Lawsuit chips away at fish research).

In 2010 the late biologist Roland C. Anderson and his colleagues at the Seattle Aquarium tested recognition in giant Pacific octopuses in an experiment that involved a «nice» keeper who regularly fed eight animals and a «mean» keeper who touched them with a bristly stick.

The tactic is the latest attempt by the animal rights group to shut down monkey behavioral experiments at Suomi's Poolesville, Maryland, laboratory, and critics say it crosses the line.

The results indicate that the highest number of new hippocampal neurons was observed in rats that ran long distances and that also had a genetic predisposition to benefit from aerobic exercise: Compared to sedentary animals, HRT rats that ran voluntarily on a running wheel had 2 - 3 times more new hippocampal neurons at the end of the experiment.

«Animal experiments led to the conclusion that mammalian eggs do not have polarity, but I think that's a huge fallacy,» said David Albertini, a developmental biologist at Tufts University in Boston.

The researchers also measured the apes» baseline preferences for each of the people in the stuffed animal skit at the beginning of the experiment, before the drama with the toy unfolded.

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.

Ross studies chimp cognition at his zoo using a touchscreen that the animals can interact with whenever they feel like, and he says he doesn't see why similar experiments couldn't be conducted in sanctuaries.

Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments or dissections, and it is not uncommon for individuals or occasionally even whole classes of undergraduates to refuse to participate in certain practicals.

In a first animal experiment, scientists at FLI also infected three cows with the virus and showed that the virus replicated in them; one developed fever and diarrhea.

The newly described experiments are a step toward uncovering «one of the enduring problems of evolutionary biology,» the emergence of a practice that about 99.9 percent of known animals engage in at least sometimes, the researchers noted in their paper.

The Norwegian analysis was done after researchers at Harvard University found these effects of the medicines in animal tests and in experiments with brain cells in the lab.

Researchers at the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME) in Nottingham, have just finished the first stage of development, which draws on research showing that human skin cells produce chemicals called cytokines when exposed to chemicals that are irritants.

With a possible government shutdown only a few days away, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to be ready to send in a skeleton staff to care for patients and maintain animals and experiments at the agency's Bethesda, Maryland, campus.

At the outset of the experiment, the researchers tested the visual attention and anticipatory behavior of rats, and segregated the most impulsive animals.

Even small children might be surprised to discover that their representatives in Washington no longer consider rats, mice, and birds used in laboratory experiments to be animals, or at least animals worthy of protection.

Recommendations aimed at reducing the incidence of cancers associated with nutrition are based on limited but suggestive evidence from epidemiological studies and animal experiments

This activity did not appear at the start of the experiment or when the animals were eating standard chow that was not high fat.

Subsequent experiments carried out at the Laboratory of Cell Biology in Rome by Luigi Aloe and one of us (Levi - Montalcini) demonstrated that this remarkable transformation can also take place in the intact animal: repeated injections of NGF into rat fetuses, continued for two to three weeks after birth, resulted in the differentiation of chromaffin cells into sympathetic neurons in the core of the adrenal gland!

«One of the basic expectations from this conceptual framework is that animal and plant experiments that do not account for what is happening at the microbiological level will be incomplete and, in some cases, will be misleading as well,» said Bordenstein.

Most of the experiments were done under precise conditions, at a wide range of radiation doses and usually for the lifetime of the animals.

But the idea of «three - parent babies» was so controversial that the FDA told researchers at the time to stop such tests, and since then experiments have been limited to animals.

A court in 1987 concluded that the LD50 studies in animals were «grossly inadequate» according to the standards in the early 1950's: the Army found that all mice died at 100 mg / kg and no mice died at 12 mg / kg, but the Army performed no further animal experiments.

The facility, personnel involved and experiments with animals at CNB - CSIC comply with the legislation on experimentation with animals and work with genetically modified organisms at the European Level (Directive 86 / 609 / CEE, 98 / 81 / CEE, 2003 / 65 / CE) and at National Level (Spanish Law 9/2003, April 25th, Real Decreto 178/2004, January 30th; and Real Decreto 1201/2005; October 10th).

All animals were male of the C57BL / 6 background and at 10 — 12 weeks of age or 25 g in body weight at the beginning of the experiment.

The animal house and animal facilities at the CNB - CSIC have been registered at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, regarding the use of animals in experimentation, with nº 28079 -29-A; and at the Ministry for the Environment, through the National Commission on Biosafety, regarding the experiments with genetically modified mice (both transgenic and knockout) under risk type II, with nº A / ES / 03 / I - 5.

In two separate experiments, hGDABMP transplanted animals (closed circles) performed significantly better than hGDACNTF (A) or hGPC (B) transplanted animals at all time points from 7 to 28 days post injury / transplantation.

Here we provide an overview of several technical developments by scientists and engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) that have enabled and enhanced deep - sea exploration and experiments to assess the effects of changing ocean conditions on benthic marine animals.