Sentences with phrase «animal laboratory finds»

When a case involving an animal laboratory finds the distracted dad once again taking an extended leave of absence from his frustrated family, Douglas» luck takes a turn for the worst after he is inadvertently infected by a top - secret genetic - mutation serum that transforms the two - legged lawyer into a four - legged sheepdog.

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A Chinese laboratory makes its own fentanyl - based animal tranquilizer, W - 18, which finds its way into Maine through Canada.

The only animals Rozin found during the course of his studies who exhibited true, laboratory - proven preference for chile, were two chimpanzees and a dog, all of which had strong relationships with humans.

Animal lovers will find Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium to be a great escape from the heat of the day.

A class of small molecules found in grapes, red wine, olive oil, and other foods extends the life of yeast cells by approximately 70 % and activates genes known to extend life span in laboratory animals.

The team also compared the animals» responses to the therapy's effects in laboratory cell samples and found that in vitro studies did not predict how well the viral therapy and immune response would fight tumor cells in vivo.

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.

Biologists have found a virus that causes obesity in laboratory animals, such as chickens and mice.

For instance, a few years back, Mark E. Cook and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin — Madison found that administering a mix of the two linoleic acid variants could prevent a common wasting syndrome in farm and laboratory animals that traced to uncontrolled inflammation.

«Our findings should facilitate the use of animal haploid cells, making them accessible to a broader range of laboratories and technologies,» the authors conclude.

In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory mice.

The findings have implications for all aspects of medical and scientific research because laboratory mice underpin studies whose results have a transformative effect on human and animal lives through vaccination and other immune - based therapies.

Newbury, in collaboration with Kathy Toohey - Kurth, virology section head at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, recently tested multiple cats at an animal shelter in Northwest Indiana and found them positive for the H3N2 canine influenza virus.

The findings, published in the journal Nanoscale, have shown remarkable success in laboratory animals.

URBANA, Ill. — Years of research in University of Illinois scientist John Erdman's laboratory have demonstrated that lycopene, the bioactive red pigment found in tomatoes, reduces growth of prostate tumors in a variety of animal models.

Dr. Chartoff's Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior Laboratory, founded in 2009, investigates the molecular, biochemical, and cellular mechanisms underlying drug dependence and withdrawal using animal behavioral models with high relevance to the human condition.

Emil von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato, in Robert Koch's laboratory, find that injecting diphtheria toxin into animals produces a serum containing an anti-toxin that provides passive anti-diptheria immunity to people, introducing the use of serum as therapy and showing that immunity did not need to arise internally but could be transferred.

While isolated colonies of laboratory animals are susceptible to becoming less genetically diverse, Brekke et al.'s findings suggest that diversity is maintained across many different populations.

And sure enough, under some conditions it can cause a Parkinson's - like syndrome in laboratory animals, 2 and a strong and consistent relationship has been found between on - farm exposure to paraquat in farm workers (as opposed to exposure to residues in one's food) and risk of PD.3

Crystal infected baby toads in the laboratory, and found that the lungworm was devastating for the tiny animals - about 30 % died, and the remainder grew more slowly, moved more slowly, and so on.

Laboratory Animals publish this month a paper summarising the findings of an NC3Rs expert working group who have been investigating the impact of rodent age on study outcomes.

Nov. 28, 2016 — A laboratory study of four animal species and their microbiota finds that each species hosts a unique community of microbes that can significantly improve its health and fitness.

Founded in 1979, the National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR) provides the unified voice for the scientific community on legislative and regulatory matters affecting laboratory animal research.

Godwin's findings are a validation of the MDI Biological Laboratory's unique research approach, which is focused on studying regeneration in a diverse range of animal models with the goal of gaining insight into how to trigger dormant genetic pathways for regeneration in humans.

«The amounts detected were at levels that scientists have found cause neurological and developmental damage in laboratory animals,» the paper reports.

And a study in the Indian Journal of Pharmacology found that fulvic acid is effective in curbing diabetes mellitus by reducing blood glucose levels and improving lipid profiles in laboratory animals.

What they found when combined with findings in Colin's laboratory opened their eyes to the dangers of a diet high in animal protein and the unparalleled health benefits of a whole foods, plant - based diet.

Abnormal accumulation of aluminum has been found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, and when aluminum is injected into the brains of laboratory animals, the animals develop a neurological disease similar to Alzheimer's.

A laboratory animal study published in the October 2003 issue of the «Journal of Ethnopharmacology» found that holy basil leaf extract exerted pain - relieving effects at the central nervous system level, meaning that it modulated levels of certain neurotransmitters in the brain that help process pain messages.

But two new studies using different groups of people — not laboratory animals — have found that natural vitamin E is utilized twice as efficiently as the synthetic form.

Severe caloric restriction has been found to extend the lives of animals in laboratories, and lowers our target of rapamycin, or TOR, which is a major determinant of aging.

Unfortunately, animal abuse runs rampant in society, found everywhere from puppy mills and backyard slaughter operations to factory farms and laboratories.

Licensed Veterinary Technicians can find employment in a variety of capacities such as medical specialty clinics, rescue shelters, exotic animal rescue and rehabilitation facilities, teaching colleges, research laboratories, non-profit organizations, and in the military and government.

In our survey of the animal charity field, we found that laboratory animal groups received less funding than farm animal advocacy groups and far less funding than companion animal advocacy groups.

Students will be qualified to find employment at places like zoos, universities, nonprofit and government agencies, at large and small animal hospitals and veterinary practices, pharmaceutical and biological research laboratories, feed companies and animal shelters.

We do very limited work on advocacy around other specific animal issues such as use of animals in laboratories and companion animal homelessness, because we think good opportunities to help animals are much easier to find in the area of farm animal advocacy (and additionally the less popular area of wild animal suffering).104 The work we do in these areas serves mainly to check our assumptions about the scale, tractability, and neglectedness of various causes.

These public records, funded by taxpayers, help consumers find out more about the animal welfare records of commercial dog breeders, horse trainers and owners, roadside zoos, research laboratories and other facilities.

The study, led by veterinary toxicologist Birgit Puschner and colleagues at the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, found that cats that were fed pet food spiked with both melamine and cyanuric acid quickly experienced acute kidney failure.

California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System toxicologists discovered that melamine and cyanuric acid, found in samples of pet food recalled in 2007, can be lethal to cats when combined; the study is helping veterinarians better diagnose the causes of kidney failure in cats.

A PETA petition urges UTMB to «immediately conduct a thorough investigation of the university's laboratories and dismiss any employees whose incompetence, negligence, or outright cruelty are found to have contributed to increased pain and misery for animals.»

Health Risk Assessments Support Veterinary Preventive Care Bob Lavan, MS, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM, associate director Outcomes Research Team, Zoetis, led the study of 563 companion animals (dogs and cats) that compared standard wellness office visits (history, physical exam, and limited laboratory screening) with medical findings and experiences with that same type of office visit but now including the PWR.

When not at the SPAW she can be found teaching large animal farm laboratory sessions for the Veterinary Technology Program at Douglas College and enjoying the great outdoors camping and hiking with her son Connor, riding her retired Standardbred racehorse «Player», or spending time with her dogs «The Wheagle» and «Katie - Kate» and her cat «Rockin Rhonda.

Most adults with negative fecal tests should also be dewormed because the Companion Animal Parasite Council says that about 75 % of pets with negative fecal tests have worms that are found when the samples are tested at universities and parasitology laboratories.

In laboratory animals, both DNA viruses (polyomavirus and SV - 40 virus) and RNA viruses (type C retroviruses) have been found to trigger osteosarcoma.

Small animal vets can also find work at clinics, animal health companies or laboratories.

[Dr. Sandra] Newbury, in collaboration with Virology Section Head at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Kathy Toohey - Kurth, recently tested multiple cats at an animal shelter in Northwest Indiana and found them positive for the H3N2 canine influenza virus.

Founded in 1998 with headquarters in Viernheim, Germany, scil animal care sells, services and supports laboratory diagnostic and imaging solutions to veterinarians in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, with a distribution presence in 25 additional countries.

Registered Veterinary Technicians can find employment in a variety of capacities such as medical specialty clinics, rescue shelters, exotic animal rescue and rehabilitation facilities, teaching colleges, research laboratories, non-profit organizations, and in the military and government.

For disinfection and cleaning of hard non-porous surfaces found in animal premise facilities such as animal life science laboratories, agricultural farms and barns, animal shelters and kennels, pet housing facilities, treatment facilities, transportation vehicles and veterinary clinics and offices.

The Comparative Orthopaedics Laboratory at Cornell University was founded in 1991 with the specific mission to foster and expand multidisciplinary research into orthopedic problems of animals and man.