Sentences with phrase «based on animal studies»

For his thesis, Rose posited, based on animal studies and slides of the human brain, that between ages 5 and 7, when children in most cultures start schooling, new cells are being developed in the hippocampus.

Based on animal studies, beneficial effects of caffeine on insulin sensitivity have also been suggested (12).

Though there are no reports of vitamin D toxicity in humans, based on animal studies, it would take 176,000,000 IU of vitamin D to kill a 110 pound person or she would need to be taking approximately 40,000 IU daily over time.

Based on animal studies and the role vitamin K2 has in bone metabolism, it is reasonable to assume that it impacts dental health too.

However, a lot of this is based on animal studies.

Some researchers believe (based on animal studies) that deficiency in Vitamin C in newborn babies can cause impairment to mental development.

In part, that's because early research was based on animal studies.

Reports which indicate that coconut oil increases serum cholesterol levels, have been based on animal studies (mainly rats) and it is uncertain as to what type of oil they have used, the Sunday Times learns.

I recently read that black pepper can help the absorption of antioxidants in green tea, though it seems to be only based on animals studies.

Not exact matches

The ancients based their opinions on data gathered from studies of the pregnant mother or through the dissection and vivisection of pregnant animals.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

The study into a vegan America, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and based on data on what Americans ate and how they farmed between 2000 and 2010, looked at how much US soil is given over to raising animals to create food for humans, and then worked out how much food Americans could create if they cut out the middle - cow — and simply grew food to eat themselves.

For example, health conscious carnivores have been favoring grass - fed cows over grain - fed animals based on studies indicating that grass - fed beef is nutritionally superior and that grass feeding is just better for the animals, as well as the environment.

According to Jaeger, past studies have shown the combination of resistance exercise consumption of animal - derived protein (whey, eggs, meat) had different effects on muscle growth compared to plant - based protein (soy).

«In the past, studies have shown that the combination of resistance exercise with consumption of animal - derived protein (such as whey, casein, eggs, meat) has had a different effect on muscle growth than when resistance exercise was paired with plant - based protein such as soy,» said Dr. Jaeger, one of the studies authors.

«In the past, studies have shown that the combination of resistance exercise with consumption of animal - derived protein (such as whey, casein, eggs, meat) has had a different effect on muscle growth than when resistance exercise was paired with plant - based protein such as soy,» said Ralf Jaeger, FISSN, CISSN, MBA.

«In the past, studies have shown that the combination of resistance exercise with consumption of animal - derived protein (such as whey, casein, eggs, meat) has had a different effect on muscle growth than when resistance exercise was paired with plant - based protein such soy,» said Dr. Jaeger.

But as the paper points out, this notion is not based on scientific evidence, as there are limited animal studies to support it.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

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The researchers hope the study will lead to a better understanding of how skilled livestock are in their aptitude to solve problems and interact with humans based on their cognitive abilities — and to an improvement in animal welfare in general.

This hypothesis is supported by studies of comparative morphological and functional anatomy, which are based on the recognition of structural similarities between the basic body plans of the various animal groups.

One 2014 study based on modeling animal movement found that increasing vehicle density on existing roads, rather than adding more roads with lower density, resulted in fewer wildlife fatalities.

And one of them said, «You know, the animal studies are all based on males.

New tests based on human biology can predict many adverse reactions that animal tests fail to do, and could, for example, have detected the risk signals produced by Vioxx, which in animal studies appeared to be safe, and even beneficial to the heart.

As an international study conducted by the University of Zurich based on 3D reconstructions of animal skeletons reveals for the first time: Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies than their usually slim carnivorous counterparts.

The results are published in the scientific journal Food & Nutrition in the article: Meals based on vegetable protein sources (beans and peas) are more satiating than meals based on animal protein sources (veal and pork)-- a randomized cross-over meal test study.

The new study also challenges the earlier held notion that animals with eyes to the sides of their heads can not glean information based on the direction of one another's gaze.

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

Taking into account other recent studies, such as the finding that newly hatched domestic chicks show a preference for consonant intervals, this report lends support to the idea that some features of human musical systems may be based, at least in part, on biological principles that are shared with other animals such as songbirds.

Based on a variety of studies in humans and animals it has been suggested that neuropeptide Y (NPY), a peptide that acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain, has therapeutic potential for PTSD.

That's why CIEP typically identifies by family rather than genus; genus is deduced later during the study based on knowledge of the animals present at that time and place in the fossil record.

A new study shows that the animals coordinate their litters based on their anticipation of nut yields.

On the basis of successful animal studies, he adds, «we thought we'd switch on the energy and collect our Nobel Prize.&raquOn the basis of successful animal studies, he adds, «we thought we'd switch on the energy and collect our Nobel Prize.&raquon the energy and collect our Nobel Prize.»

Campbell stumbled across statistics about osteoporosis in the 1980s when he took a break from his animal studies to direct the China - Oxford - Cornell project, a massive investigation of diet and disease based on data gathered from 6,500 rural Chinese families.

Based on past studies from several animal researchers, the Johns Hopkins team knew that extinguishing fearful memories requires receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate.

Implications of livestock farming on climate change should not be drawn from aggregate statistics, reveals a study based on a new method of carbon footprinting for pasture - based cattle production systems that can assess the impacts of individual animals.

This should have an impact particularly on E. coli based gastrointestinal diseases, says Jim Murray, an animal scientist at the University of California, Davis, and an author of the study.

The use of cell surface markers to isolate specific cell populations is one common method for separating cells; however, isolating live cells based on their RNA expression is a powerful new way enabling the study of small cell niches in nongenetically modified animal models and human tissue.

«We showed, based on extrapolation from a random sample of land snail species from all over the world, and via two independent approaches, that we may already have lost 7 percent (130,000 extinctions) of all the animal species on Earth,» said Robert Cowie, research professor at PBRC and co-author of the two studies.

«Animals interact with their environment based on stereotypical movement patterns, such as those performed during running, breathing or feeding,» explains Prof. Lohmann, who directs the Developmental Biology research group at the Centre for Organismal Studies.

The camouflage and concealment strategies of various animal species have been widely studied, but scientists from Exeter and Cambridge universities have discovered that individual wild birds adjust their choices of where to nest based on their specific patterns and colours.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

Based on maze studies involving animals, the typical subjects for this type of experiment, Gagliano and colleagues expected the peas to grow randomly, which is the standard research assumption — for animals.

«Our study is the first to provide unequivocal evidence, based solely on a chemical «fingerprint», for the palaeoecological distribution of an economically and culturally important animal.

Past studies showed that plants in nutrient - poor environments use animal - derived nutrients on a large - scale basis.

Based on previous studies of the life - history, physical and ecological aspects of fecundity, Dr Pincheira - Donoso's work also concludes that the theory should distinguish between fertility during an animal's lifetime and during one particular breeding season, rather than grouping all time periods together.

Rather, the animals in this study appear to adapt their molecular arsenals on a localized as - needed basis.

His hunch is based on studies — many done by his former graduate student Brian Hare — comparing domestic animals with their wild relatives.

The ATS recommended standards for O3 and PM2.5 are based on scores of national and international epidemiological, animal and human exposure studies.