Sentences with phrase «even rat studies»

Not exact matches

Studies with rats have found that even short bursts of such hormones during pregnancy can result in normal genitals accompanied by transgender behaviour.

Even if it turns out that there are no useful applications of behavioral assay methods with rats, these studies should be interesting in themselves because they may tell us something about our ability to determine what it is like to be another organism.12

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

A 2012 Biomed Central Medicine study found that both the offspring and grand - offspring of pregnant rats exposed to nicotine developed asthma even if those descendants had no exposure to the chemical.

Studies in rats tend to use much higher doses of THC than even a committed pothead would absorb, and rodent adolescence is just a couple of weeks long — nothing like ours.

A new study shows that rats will, indeed, rescue their distressed pals from the drink — even when they're offered a chocolate treat instead.

Now researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Neuron on July 18 show in a study conducted in rats that even a single exposure to nicotine temporarily changes how the brain's reward system responds to alcohol and increases the reinforcing properties of alcohol via stress hormones.

Now, this belief has gotten a dose of scientific support from a study that suggests that the central nervous system can regulate pain and even reduce joint damage in arthritic rats.

A series of studies have previously shown that the parasite affects the brain of infected rats so that they lose fear of cats and even become attracted to cats» smell, making them an easy prey.

Laboratory rats will drink alcohol if it's available, and may even get a little tipsy, researchers report in a new study.

«Even though millions of years of evolution separate yeast and rats, we found the same results in both models,» said Dr. Higgins, one of the study's lead authors.

Studies show a rat injected with oxytocin can remain calm even when surrounding rats are anxious.

Ginseng provokes excitement, enhances endurance, and in lab studies with female rats there was even an increase in their ability to attract male rats during mating season.

The research on IF's specific impact on women is scant, and even Stefani admits that the literature on the topic is small and mainly based on rat studies.

This study even found that consuming mangiferin could reverse brain damage caused by inflammation; rats experienced significantly reduced damage to cognition and less inflammatory chemicals roaming around the brain.

We discussed how rutin was compared to quercetin in a study on rats, and found to be strongly anti-inflammatory, even more so than quercetin, which is one of the best researched antioxidants of all.

Although rats consuming a high - casein diet were indeed developing liver cancer as Campbell described, the ones in the low - casein groups — which were portrayed as downright bright - eyed and shiny - coated in The China Study — were suffering an even worse fate.

Even the research from India that jump - started Campbell's interest in the diet - cancer link showed that rats on a low - casein diet were dying with disturbing frequency, while the high - protein rats — tumored as they may have been — were at least staying alive.13 (It's surprising, then, that The China Study promotes a plant - based diet to prevent cancer, when death is equally effective and requires fewer shopping trips.)

In fact, in one study, a dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1 percent of lab rats (lethal dose «LD01»), when combined with a dose of lead sufficient to kill 1 percent, killed 100 percent of the rats.13 A similar test involving mercury and aluminum in cultured neurons killed 60 percent of the cells when the two low - dose toxicants (LD01) were combined.14 Even antibiotics have been shown to enhance the uptake, retention and toxicity of mercury.14 Additionally, testosterone appears to aggravate mercury toxicity during development, while estrogen protects against it.15 This may explain why more boys than girls are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit disorders.

Many other studies though show no difference in health markers and even some of the ones that do, use rats and not humans.

The results of the study showed that old rats saw a 100 % improvement in spatial long - term memory and even out performed younger rats who had not used MgT (5).

One study showed that rats who drank HFCS - sweetened beverages gained significantly more weight than those who slurped drinks sweetened with sugar — even when both groups consumed the same amount of calories.

A 2010 Princeton University study that compared the health of lab rats fed both sugars found those on a steady diet of HFCS gained far more weight, even though their caloric intake was the same.

Laboratory studies have even demonstrated that rats raised in cages with toys are smarter than ones raised in empty cages.

There is even a study that suggests that feeding such a diet to female rats even helps to protect their daughters against mammary tumors.