Sentences with phrase «followed by rodents»

However, the most feared pest was actually the bed bug, with 39 % of respondents saying they would least like to see bedbugs, followed by rodents, cockroaches, ants and then flies.

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Believed to have originally come to Europe from Asia via the Silk Road trading route, it was thought that the repeated plague outbreaks that followed the Black Death epidemic were caused by rodent reservoirs in Europe — bacteria - infested fleas hiding out in rats.

Ibex Captra sibirica is the primary prey of snow leopards in this region, followed by domestic goat Capra hircus, argali Ovis ammon, domestic sheep Ovis aries and other species including Tolai hare Lepus tolai, Chukar partridge Alectoris chukar, and several species of rodents -LRB-[21], Johansson, unpublished data).

Also noted by IER studies are an increase in the expression levels of silent mating type information regulation 2 homolog 1 (SIRT1), an NAD + - dependent deacetylase.20 The expression of SIRT1, also increased by prolonged ER in rodents, is linked to the up - regulation of cellular stress resistance and improved outcomes in animal models of metabolic, neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases.106, 107These findings have been suggestively accompanied by improvements in resilience to disease progression in rodent models of Type 1 diabetic nephropathy 20, survival following induced ischaemic injury 21 and a reduction in oxidative stress.105

Several trials have demonstrated that the cardiomyocytes of rodents maintained on IER become more resilient to ischaemic injury induced by occlusion of the left coronary artery 18, 21, 29, which translated into improved long - term survival following such injury in one study.21 In addition, within these studies, associations have been found between the cardiovascular improvements and markers of oxidative stress 24, 30, inflammatory responses 18, 24, 29, 30 and increases in circulating levels of adiponectin.29 Collectively, these reported changes in biochemical and physiological cardiovascular risk factors would be expected to suppress atherosclerotic development and preserve cardiovascular health.

While we didn't separate out the impacts of individual rodent species, previous work shows that black rats (Rattus rattus) threaten the greatest number of species, followed by brown rats (R. norvegicus) and Pacific rats (R. exulans).

Black - tailed deer are the most common, accounting for roughly over half of the catalogued photos, followed by gray squirrels, small rodents, and raccoons.

I'd be up on a chair with a shoe ready to throw at the first thing that moved because I'd not want some rodent running up my pant leg followed by a ticked off cat like something out of a a Tom and Jerry cartoon.