Sentences with phrase «behavior in rodents»

10 % of MBH NPY neurons were inhibited by l - leucine, and leucine rapidly reduced AGRP secretion, providing a mechanism for the rapid leucine - induced inhibition of foraging behavior in rodents.

He has investigated the role of immune - inflammatory processes and stress in the depression - like behavior in rodents.

In addition to the strain and age differences, variation in the methodology and the laboratory conditions could interfere with the anxiety and exploration behavior in rodents [43].

«Wall - following behavior in rodents has long been linked to anxiety, so I hypothesized that fly wall - following was also related to anxiety,» Mohammad says.

As part of the team studying poststroke dementia in Dr. Kristian Doyle's laboratory, Dr. Nguyen applies more than 10 years of experience in quantifying neurodegeneration, immune responses, and behavior in rodent models.

Beneficial effects of fruit extracts on neuronal function and behavior in a rodent model of accelerated aging.

Not exact matches

HDAC5, the gene suppressor, did not prevent addiction - like behaviors from forming, but it did prevent later drug seeking and relapse during abstinence — at least in rodents.

The study wasn't about designing a new way of testing animal behavior, either; the same test has been used in rodents.

In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the voles» physiology — exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.

Afterward, in tests to see if the mice displayed the rodent equivalent of anxiety and depression symptoms, they found about 40 percent showed high levels of behaviors that included a preference for a dark compartment over a brightly lit one, or a loss of interest in sugar water.

«Studies in rodents have shown that artificially manipulating VTA activity strongly influences behavior, and our work has bridged the gap between rodent and primate.»

«Why and what role does this have in behavior and what does that fear behavior look like in rodents?

«Parental exposure to marijuana linked to drug addiction, compulsive behavior in unexposed progeny, rodent sudy finds.»

To decipher how that process unfolds, neurobiologist Bruno Bontempi and colleagues took advantage of a rather rude behavior in rats: The rodents often smell the breath of their fellow creatures to determine whether a new food is safe to eat.

The mice even modified their behavior to avoid withdrawal: those that received opioid blockers in a dark box preferred to spend time in a white box, despite rodents» natural penchant for darkness.

«The idea that this parasite knows more about our brains than we do, and has the ability to exert desired change in complicated rodent behavior, is absolutely fascinating,» Ingram said.

While rodents behave in the maze, they are tracked with an overhead camera and software that monitors their behavior.

This behavior, in turn, may be attracting more predators of the rodents, Chalfoun says.

Oxytocin is known to be positively correlated with social behavior in many mammalian species, including humans and rodents.

Title: PCP - induced deficits in murine nest building activity: employment of an ethological rodent behavior to mimic negative - like symptoms of schizophrenia Author: C.S. Pedersen et al..

He spent his basic research career studying the mechanisms of steroid hormone action on the brain, behavior, and mental health, and the influences of the environment and stressors on those actions in laboratory rodents.

A concurrent experimental arm of the study also confirmed that the probiotic added to the dietary of rodents was effective in reducing behaviors indicative of anxiety.

The composition of the gut microbiome can even alter behavior in mice; treatment with particular probiotics can also improve anxiety behaviors (mostly in rodents, but there are limited findings in humans as well).

Captive rodents that are kept caged and not given anything to play with or to chew on commonly develop behavior problems including barbering (chewing hair off themselves), repetitive behaviors (such as cage bar chewing, jumping, digging, and running in patterns), fighting, cannibalism (of their mates and babies), and repetitive teeth chattering.

This brings up the curious question of why such Hominids should be less astute, shall we say, than than our rodent cousins in terms of their adaptive behavior, a topic which even the former Mr. Dr. Professor Gould does not seem to address in his opus as far as we have been able to ascertain in our book club readings.

Potential impacts of climate change on the transmission of Lyme disease include: 1) changes in the geographic distribution of the disease due to the increase in favorable habitat for ticks to survive off their hosts; 85 2) a lengthened transmission season due to earlier onset of higher temperatures in the spring and later onset of cold and frost; 3) higher tick densities leading to greater risk in areas where the disease is currently observed, due to milder winters and potentially larger rodent host populations; and 4) changes in human behaviors, including increased time outdoors, which may increase the risk of exposure to infected ticks.