Sentences with phrase «found on rodents»

The hantavirus is carried by fleas often found on rodents.

Not exact matches

Tell me I'm not alone in this: You saw Ratatouille, fell in love with Remy (though you still jumped a foot in the air when you saw a significantly less - charming rodent scamper across your path on the way home) and found yourself with a pressing craving, not for the heavy and too - often soggy traditional Provençal ratatouille, but that kaleidoscope of spiraled colors they served to the haughty and (spoiler!)

The researchers found that the virus was almost certainly inadvertently transmitted to the gibbons from rodents by medical researchers working on human diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.

Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.

To find out if this effect on testosterone production might affect mice's fertility, the team knocked out the gene for osteocalcin in a group of the rodents.

However, when they closely examined the effects on the brain of conditioning rodents with a mild foot shock, the scientists found several messenger RNAs recruited to polyribosomes in the medial prefrontal cortex — a clear indication of new protein synthesis there.

This finding came on the heels of similar observations in rodents, monkeys and birds.

Researchers say the leading cause of these extinctions is invasive rodents — rats and mice that stowed away on ships, then quickly populated islands where they have no natural predators and often find a buffet of things like eggs and baby wildlife.

That the fossil was found in what was once an ancient lake bed suggests that this particular rodent may have made an unfortunate mistake — it may accidentally have landed on the lake and drowned.

Paleontologist John Kappelman of the University of Texas at Austin is finding the answer in northern Ethiopia, where he recently excavated the remains of five new elephant relatives (including the tusks seen here), huge rodent like hyraxes, and a late Arsinoitherium, a seven - foot - tall rhino - shaped beast that sported a pair of enormous conical horns on its snout.

Yu then worked with another researcher from the Academy of Military Medical Sciences to test a crude extract of qinghao on a rodent model of malaria, finding that the extract killed parasites with 60 % to 80 % potency.

In this article, Dr David Kristensen and colleagues from Copenhagen University Hospital, review the findings from three individual rodent studies that evaluated the effects of paracetamol taken during pregnancy on the development of the reproductive system in female offspring.

They said that «mitigation steps will be taken» to protect the sole endemic rodent, a mouse found on Santiago Island.

Based on their findings, the researchers suggest that such adaptations must have arisen very early in the evolution of the order, setting the stage for the major diversification of rodent - like mammals that ensued.

Based on the new study's findings, S. melilutra's jaws would have been strong enough to crush the shells of big mollusks or the bones of birds and small mammals like rodents, though what exactly it ate is unknown.

The cortex is the thin layer of cells on the surface of the brain that governs many functions, and in elephants it contains a greater variety of cell types (such as the extensively branched neuron pictured above) than is found in more frequently studied animals such as rodents and primates.

Although the implications for childhood development and adult health have yet to be understood, this finding builds on similar work in rodents.

The scientists» findings on a specific group of these viruses called ERV - Fc, to be published in the journal eLife, show that they affected a wide range of hosts, including species as diverse as carnivores, rodents, and primates.

The finding, based on rodent studies, was published recently in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

PNP Therapeutics, Inc. — a company based on a gene - therapy technology developed by scientists at Southern Research Institute and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)-- has found an approach that has abolished otherwise unmanageable human cancers in preclinical rodent studies.

The findings may finally resolve a debate that has raged in anthropological circles ever since the three - and - a-half-feet tall Homo floresiensis was discovered in 2003 on the island of Flores, where they are thought to have hunted small elephants and large rodents as recently as 54,000 years ago.

Laboratory Animals publish this month a paper summarising the findings of an NC3Rs expert working group who have been investigating the impact of rodent age on study outcomes.

The current findings are «another piece of evidence that what we see in laboratory rodents on caloric restriction translates to humans,» said Richard Weindruch, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, who has studied caloric restriction since 1975 but did not participate in Floel's study.

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.

I find that troubling when you consider the vast majority of scientific studies examing health effects is undertaken on rodents due to their similarity to humans.

To further explore the relevance of these findings in rodents on primate health, a study was initiated at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) in 1989, studying a 30 % calorie restriction in rhesus monkeys (8).

He's found that intermittent fasting in rodents seems to improve their blood sugar levels, boost performance on cognitive tasks and help keep them lean.

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Without any positive evidence against the suspicious industrialist, officers slap a closed sign on the animal experimentation operation and the rodents soon finds themselves incarcerated in a pet store cage with a hairy, flatulence - plagued pig (voice by Jon Favreau) and psychotic hamster (voice by Steve Buscemi).

On a recent tour of DPS schools, Mayor Mike Duggan found crumbling facilities, dead rodents, and children wearing coats in freezing classrooms.

While their initial reaction was pride at Tigger's new found prowess as a huntress, they soon realized a rodent repast might not have been a healthy meal choice on Tigger's part.

They thrive on farms, and are the most efficient rodent catchers you'll find.

During multiple inspections in 2007 and 2008 (available on request), dog wardens found moldy food, poor maintenance, excessive feces, rodents and inadequate cage sizes for the dogs, among other violations.

Once on the job, you may find remains of rodents lying around.

A U.S. magistrate has found a Santa Barbara environmental activist not guilty of violating federal law two years ago, when he allegedly fed black rats on Anacapa Island vitamin pellets to counteract poison that park rangers dropped from helicopters to exterminate the rodents.

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More on corn: USDA Quietly Approves New GMO Corn, While Touting Safety of Agent Orange Ingredient Study Finds Monsanto's GMO Corn Causes Organ Damage in Rodents Monsanto Bringing More GM Sweet Corn To Your Supermarket

Although these findings seem to lead to a compelling conclusion that the more maternal care offspring receive, the greater functional advantage they have during adulthood, it has long been noted in the literature on rodents that early stimulation of the mother and stimulation of pups are intrinsically confounded in neonatal handling studies because dams of handled pups are removed from the litter during the procedure (11 — 14).

Oh, and if you visit me on Twitter you'll get to hear lots of stuff you don't find out on my blog, like the latest RAT episode (right on cue, didn't I tell you last Thanksgiving that we can't have holidays or events without a rodent involved?)