Sentences with phrase «animals as»

Fortunately for those who don't want mice to take over the earth, this response is not uncommon for animals as a fear response.

One of the assays widely used in the literature is the application of splenocytes from tolerant animals as responder cells in a 4 - day mixed lymphocyte culture.

Because both notum and the Wnt signaling pathway are so evolutionarily ancient, their interaction in planarians may indicate a relationship that is important in other animals as well.

In addition, mixed lymphocyte cultures using the cells of the chimeric animals as responder cells to donor splenocytes failed to demonstrate any sensitization or clonal deletion of alloreactive T cells; i.e. T cell responses were identical to those of control animals (n = 4)(data not shown).

Scientists have used these animals as a model for disorders of social behavior, including autism and schizophrenia.

So, we have to work with animals as integrated organisms.

Mexican gray wolves were reduced to just seven animals as a result of a federal program of trapping and poisoning that was only halted through the 1973 passage of the Endangered Species Act.

The shortage of human organ donors has led scientists to investigate animals as a potential source for transplantable organs or tissues.

The support we provide to shelters concerned about any outbreak affecting their animals involves diagnostics as well as advice on management, and ways to minimize the impact for the animals as well as the shelter's resources.

We note that this approaches the maximum lifespan of these animals as the Polg genotype causes severe weight loss as the animals approach 1 year of age (Kujoth et al., 2005).

It is also exhaled by most animals as they breathe.

J147 is a potential AD therapeutic due to its ability to provide immediate cognition benefits, and it also has the potential to halt and perhaps reverse disease progression in symptomatic animals as demonstrated in these studies.

Limited data are available about the ecology of SARS - CoV, but bats are thought to be the animal reservoir for the virus which may be transmitted to small mammals with exposure to these small animals as the source of human infections [10].

Those challenged animals exhibited infection similar to unvaccinated animals as well as Th2 - type immunopathology.

BPS is known to have some of the same effects in animals as BPA.

A re-analysis of a 5,000 - year - old cow's skull suggests humans were performing cranial surgery on animals as well — but why would they even bother?

This will help them map the animals as they move around.

Similarly, lipid containing structures in epidermal cells (K and L) are bigger in wild type animals as shown in the (K) and smaller in mutant animals (L).

The failure to provide an physical barrier between the tailings and water, solids, or other material leaves the tailings vulnerable to extensive penetration of the tailings by plant roots and animals as well as disturbance by freeze and thaw and ice formation and break up impacts.

Specifically, TheraT ® has proven to be safe in animals as well as capable of eliciting uniquely potent antigen - specific CD8 + cytotoxic T cell responses and strong tumor control in mice.

In one of the Obama Administration's last acts, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it intended to treat CRISPR - edited animals as if they were new drugs, requiring elaborate and costly safety studies.

To enable sexual reproduction, plants normally use animals as pollen vectors, with their flowers mostly offering nectar [1].

The government provides subsidized livestock that covers 13 % of the farmers» annual needs, as well as free medicine and vaccines for their animals as well as access to protected pastures.

A second explanation for this behavior is that babies» expectations about animals and their insides are tied to the cognitive systems humans evolved to deal with predators and prey — in other words, to deal with animals as a food source.

O'Connor says this practice should be more widespread so that «researchers who are using this scarce but vital resource can learn as much as possible from as few animals as necessary.»

But, often they view animals as if they were separate from their natural environment.

Perhaps by dealing with animals as individuals while recognising that they are part of a larger whole, we could subdue the Abrahamic impulse within us and allow conservation to be more fruitful in future.

In an experiment aimed to uncover how concepts are represented in the brain, 29 participants, ages 18 - 28, first viewed several novel cartoon animals as examples from two different concept categories whose members were related to families called Romeo or Juliet.

«The amount of spermine in the cells of the hippocampus was significantly reduced in diseased animals as compared to the healthy animals,» report the lead authors Dr. Michel Royeck and Dr. Thoralf Optiz from Dr. Beck's team.

«Even though people talk about euthanasia with animals as the humane thing to do, people who are more empathetic have the greatest opposition to euthanasia involving a human,» he said.

The samples revealed long - held secrets of how desert - friendly species replaced tropical plants and animals as monsoon rains retreated farther south into the continent.

He gave the animals as a gift to his comrade and fellow hunting enthusiast, Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov.

Animals as varied as grasshoppers and mice build their bodies by assembling repetitive pieces during embryonic development.

Thanks to the discovery of GFP, scientists have created new bioluminescent animals as part of their genetic research.

The European Parliament today voted to ban the cloning of all farm animals as well as the sale of cloned livestock, their offspring, and products derived from them.

Instead, he and his colleagues want «to use the animals as an incubator.

It's a striking finding, but is it really accurate to describe these animals as «naturally occurring GM butterflies»?

Microbes, he argued, don't just happen to spoil food when they gorge on it; they have evolved to make it unappetizing to large animals as fast as possible — for instance by producing bad - tasting compounds — so they can keep the meal to themselves.

FWS released the first Mexican wolves in 1998, designating the animals as an «experimental population» under the ESA in order to give the agency more legal latitude in managing the animals.

«We know that if V. cholerae can't be curved, it can't make animals as sick,» Gitai said.

SA: What about this idea of trying to save wildlife by keeping indigenous animals as pets, to increase their value and as a way to keep more of them alive?

Animals as large as elephants have been moved from one national park to another in South Africa in order to manage the growing populations there, he says.

Primatologist Alan Dixson of the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand isn't surprised that animals as intelligent as bonobos might find other ways to get mates, such as trailing their mothers, if rank failed them.

It «is likely to make a big difference for the whole trophic web and for animals as well.»

Working quickly, they attached data - gathering tags to as many of the normally elusive animals as they could — something no one had ever done before.

But only one of them — Serratia marcescens, which resides in the guts of humans and other animals as well as in soil and water — is capable of causing whitepox in healthy coral samples, the team reports.

It would not be ethical to intentionally create stressful situations for the animals as a test, she notes — which is why, until now, researchers have had to rely on well - documented but anecdotal observations of wild and captive elephants to back up claims that they reassure each other.

In a few weeks, such deep - sea «feasts» can deliver as much food to deep - sea animals as would normally arrive over years or even decades of typical marine snow.

GOLDEN jackals are often seen as a pest, blamed for the death of livestock and wild animals as they move from south - central Eurasia into northern Europe.

View Slide Show The lure of rarity Enthusiasts covet rare animals as exotic pets and hunting trophies as well as for insect or birds» egg collections.