Sentences with phrase «because rodents»

Because rodents are known to spread more than 35 diseases, homeowners should contact a licensed pest control expert for periodic inspections, treatment, and removal if they are spotted.

Because these rodents have sensitive stomachs, they must also adhere to a strict diet of special grass hay and chinchilla pellets.

This name is ironic because rodents are remarkably immune to this bacterial infection that affects both humans and animals.

Studies in typical model animals — mice — are rarely illuminating, because the rodents often still behave normally when researchers manipulate genes that should cause these disorders.

(Because those rodents have larger teeth than mice, a drilled rat molar better approximates human tooth decay.)

It's very effective because rodents are drawn to it like moths to a flame.

The comment by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, that the office of President Muhammadu Buhari is being renovated because rodents damaged it has been receiving backlash from Nigerians.

Harding also argues that because rodent studies suggest that these animals do lose neurons to alcohol, they may be unreliable models for the human hippocampus.

Tissier and her colleagues had been looking into the effect of wheat - and corn - based diets in European hamsters because the rodent's population in France was quickly disappearing.

Not exact matches

«The findings are encouraging because they are consistent with rodent literature that pinpoints exactly the parts of the brain that play a role in stress - induced memory benefits caused by exercise.»

Days after recalling 11 tons of donated chia seeds because of rodent droppings, the Oregon Food Bank recalled almost 32 tons of pumpkin seeds and half a ton of nutritional yeast.

A rodent wanted to join his fellow quadrupeds for the big match, but they rebuffed him because he was small and scrawny.

Instruct your little one not to run after a mouse or try catching it because it might bite, like most rodents do!

Debunking the allegation that Buhari chose to work from home because of the invasion of his office by rodents, the former minister said there was no way the Buhari that Nigerians used to know could have been chased away from his office by mere rats.

And it didn't stop there; the new Buhari could not go to his office because they claimed that rats and rodents have taken over the office,» he said, stressing that «the old Buhari would not run away from rats, the new Buhari does.

If rodents will take three months to chase away, then weaker animals should wait even longer because the «Lion King» is praying for restoration.

The first agricultural settlements probably attracted wildcats because they were rife with rodents.

They started with pairs of fat yellow mice known to scientists as agouti mice, so called because they carry a particular gene — the agouti gene — that in addition to making the rodents ravenous and yellow renders them prone to cancer and diabetes.

Because both the Salk and Penn experiments used adult rodents, their brains were no longer developing, unlike the case if implants had been done with fetal rodent brains.

The National Park Service is using the map to identify places where humanmade noise is affecting wildlife — animals such bats and owls, whose ears are up to 20 decibels more sensitive than human ears, for example, are affected by humanmade noise because it drowns out the faint rustles of insects and rodents they need to hunt, they say.

Skeptics, however, have suggested that the rodents help because they crave companionship — not because their fellow rodents were suffering.

They could have affected rodents because we found rodent hair in the amber.

Now, they take about three - quarters of their blood meals from the rodents in question because the python is eating up many of the other mammals, said Burkett - Cadena.

And it's always hard to develop a rodent model that is close to the human condition, because the human conditions are far more complicated.

And that could be bad if what happens in laboratory animals also happens in people, because studies in rodents show that BPA can trigger a host of harmful changes, from reproductive havoc to impaired blood - sugar control and obesity (SN: 9/29/07, p. 202).

Nevertheless, in the case of drug abuse, it's more straightforward because you can simply allow a rodent to self - administer a drug to itself if it chooses to do so, and a subset of rodents actually will do so.

Researches on decision - making from neurobiological aspect have been performed by using monkeys and rodents, although the details of the mechanisms have been unclear because their brain consists of more than hundreds of millions of nerve cells.

Historically, mice have been the rodents of choice for autism research, partly because there are so many models representing a broad range of autism - relevant genetic mutations, and partly because they're small and relatively cheap.

Exposure of the fetus to BPA in utero is of particular concern, because the chemical, which mimics the hormone estrogen, has been linked to several kinds of cancer, including prostate cancer, in rodent models.

Officials earlier speculated that aminopterin got into the pet food because Chinese farmers sprayed it on wheat fields to protect them from rodent trespassers.

Because rats don't develop Peyronie's disease, the researchers had to induce scarring by making incisions in the rodent penises.

Beforehand, he thought he should sweep away rodent feces that had accumulated and throw out some old cardboard boxes, because the telescope had only been used intermittently since astronomer George Ellery Hale first installed it in 1904.

There is speculation that the poison got into the chow because Chinese farmers sprayed their crops, including wheat, with it to protect them from hungry rodents.

Like rodents, cephalopods are highly adaptable to changes in their environment, researchers say — in large part because most species live just 1 or 2 years, dying as soon as they give birth.

Because the duck's touch sensors are similar to mammals» and their bills aren't covered in fur, the authors suggest embryonic duck bills might be a better model than standard laboratory rodents to study touch sensation as it applies to us relatively hairless humans.

That preference works out nicely for the chili plants — because the seeds break down in the rodent gut, but not in the avian gut, birds are better at dispersing the seeds.

The team speculates that detrimental mutations have survived in humans and chimps because these species have had much smaller breeding populations than rodents throughout evolution.

«We tested the hypothesis that rodents were more abundant surrounding gas fields because their main predators (raptors, coyotes and badgers) avoided gas fields, but our data did not support this idea.»

So it looks like cats chose to domesticate themselves because they noticed that, if they came in and helped out with the rodent control, we would reward them with food.

Rabbit monoclonals provide better antigen recognition because the rabbit immune system generates antibody diversity, and optimizes affinity by mechanisms that are more efficient than those of mice and other rodents.

Dr Richard Melloni, who led the research, said that because the part of the brain which his team studied is similar in rodents and humans, the scientists say their findings are probably applicable to people.

Because of the rarity of bRG cells rodent models, the mechanisms controlling proliferation and self - renewal of these neural stem cells remain largely unexplored.

Keeping it sealed or lidded is necessary because there are other admirers of coconut oil (ants, cockroaches, other insects and rodents just love it!).

Specifically, sleep - restricted rodents lost weight even though they ate more (24) and rats with sleep disturbance because of ventrolateral preoptic area of the hypothalamus lesions (25) gained less weight even though they ate normal amounts of food.

March 16, 2017 • Because what mammal can take down a rodent that sniffs out land mines as well as TB — and jumps 5 feet in the air?

Tracy Miracle, the publicity and marketing campaigns director at my publisher, Candlewick, thought it would be a natural fit because I have a couple of rodent heroes.

Because of this, they are hostile to rodents and other small animals.

First, because small pets, especially rodents, have a tendency to chew on cage accessories, feeders should be chew - proof or chew - resistant.

It's good with other dogs but because it's a terrier, can't be trusted with smaller animals such as mice, hamsters, and other rodents.

Indoor cats pose less of a risk because they are not hunting small rodents while you sleep.