Sentences with phrase «from laboratory animal»

In this study from Laboratory Animal Research, researchers aimed to analyse the effects of yerba on weight loss and other biochemical parameters related to obesity.

We are cautiously optimistic, appreciating that the transition from laboratory animal models to the clinical setting is often challenging,» commented Dr. Davis.

The Cedars - Sinai researchers first tried to repeat previous studies showing that astrocytes from laboratory animals with an ALS mutation failed to support normal motor neurons.

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There we learn that when Dr. Starling removed the amygdala from the brains of laboratory cats, he observed them «to veer helplessly from one inappropriate affect to another, boredom where there should be fear, cringing where there should be preening, sexual arousal where there was nothing that would stimulate an intact animal.»

They are trying to save endangered species and protect domestic and laboratory animals from abuse.

While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to grow clean meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women in white coats — others see the lab - grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.

Animal lovers will find Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium to be a great escape from the heat of the day.

Five or 10 years ago, he notes, measurements of animal athletics came mostly from treadmills or other laboratory setups without a sense of what real - world emergency might prompt particular motions.

From a small wooden desk in a row home a few miles north of the U.S. Capitol, Justin Goodman is waging war against animal research as director of laboratory investigations at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Although British researchers had discovered embryonic stem cells in laboratory animals in 1981, it wasn't until 1998 that a Wisconsin team announced it had isolated stem cells from human embryos for the first time.

And instead of surmising the animals» thinking from field observations or working with a single trained subject, she conducted repeatable laboratory experiments, carefully designed to rule out alternative interpretations, with multiple birds whose history was uncorrupted by previous work.

In 1950, American farmers rejoiced at news from a New York laboratory: A team of scientists had discovered that adding antibiotics to livestock feed accelerated animals» growth and cost less than conventional feed supplements.

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

There's been a growing realization among diabetes researchers that human islet development differs significantly from islet development in typical laboratory animals like mice.»

«After our animal studies showed that GM - CSF was important in the development of an MS - like disease, we were excited to see these results confirmed using samples from MS patients in the current study,» says Abdolmohamad Rostami, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Neurology at Thomas Jefferson University and director of its neuroimmunology laboratory.

Lawmakers from both parties are backing a bill — called the AWARE Act — that would expand the scope of the Animal Welfare Act, which governs the humane treatment of laboratory animals.

Complex phenomena — which we have so far only been able to study in live animals - can now be investigated in simple laboratory experiments using cultivated cells,» says postdoc Hans Christian Cederberg Helms from the Department of Pharmacy.

BARCELONA, SPAIN — Two major airlines have stopped transporting laboratory animals from mainland Spain to the Canary Islands, an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

As director of the Poly - PEDAL Laboratory, a cross-disciplinary team of researchers — many of them undergraduates — Full is devoted to forming general principles from the study of animal motion.

When two common North American species — the Eastern red - spotted newt, a showy animal often kept as a pet, and the rough - skinned newt, which ranges from British Columbia to the Mexican border — were exposed to the fungus in laboratory tests, 100 % of the animals died.

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).

In an effort to put behind them decades of opposition from animal rights campaigners, dozens of organizations involved in animal research released a concordat on openness today aimed at helping the public better understand the conditions of animals in laboratories and their importance for medical and biological science.

Not only from the life science research viewpoint, but also from the social concern for the welfare of laboratory animals.

In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory mice.

Along with one of his graduate students, he has managed to re-create the tube worms» habitat in the laboratory, the first time anyone has managed to keep the animals alive for more than a few days away from the ocean.

A cheap and simple test that identifies skin irritants in cosmetics and drugs could save thousands of animals from a life of suffering in laboratory experiments.

Experiments performed by coauthor Mireia Uribe - Herranz, PhD, a research associate in Facciabene's lab, demonstrate that when ACT was performed on genetically identical animals obtained from different vendors (Jackson Laboratory or Harlan Laboratories), which carry different microbiota, impact of the therapy was not identical.

Meanwhile, researchers at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, near Melbourne, have been focusing on pigs, from which the virus is thought to have jumped to people.

That's because most studies on single human brain cells use dead rather than living tissue, and many others rely on cells from common laboratory animals, especially mice.

Unlike many other cellular and physiological processes, human reproduction varies in significant ways from that of common laboratory animals like mice or fruit flies.

«The time from selection of the target through discovery of the antibody and completion of initial animal tests totaled only about five months,» said Hongkai Zhang, a research associate in the Lerner laboratory who was first author of the study.

Unless otherwise noted, all mice were obtained from The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine, USA) at 6 — 8 weeks of age and housed in ventilated Plexiglas cages (one to three animals per cage) within a pathogen - free barrier facility that maintained a 12 - hour light / dark cycle.

C57BL / 6 (H - 2b) and CD4 knockout (C57BL / 6 - Cd 4 , H - 2b) mice were purchased from The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME) and maintained in pathogen - free animal facilities.

BETHESDA, Md., Mon., Jan. 26, 2004 - A Japanese - U.S. team today reported the successful creation of transgenic animals using sperm genetically modified and grown in a laboratory dish, an achievement with implications for a wide range of research from developmental biology to gene therapy.

Rehabilitation of laboratory animals apart from being ethical, can be a fabulous vehicle for communication and conciliation between scientists and the public.

There is increasing evidence in humans and laboratory animals for biologically - based sex differences in every phase of drug addiction including acute reinforcing effects, transition from occasional to compulsive use, withdrawal - associated negative affective states, craving, and relapse.

Animals that were allowed to recover from hypoxia were returned to the animal care facility and brought back to the laboratory for sacrifice.

We have learned a fair amount from the neurologic genetic diseases, but we and others also studied these cells in the laboratory as well as in animal models of brain injury.

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have made important progress in understanding the earliest steps in a process that protects animal genomes from potentially dangerous genetic elements called transposons.

Currently IDOBRU imports 66 Brucella vaccines from the Vaccine Ontology (VO; http://www.violinet.org/vaccineontology [21], including four licensed animal Brucella vaccines and 62 Brucella vaccine candidates that have been proven effective in laboratory animal models [33].

C57BL / 6 (wild type) and perforin - deficient (C57BL / 6 - Prf 1tm1Sdz / J, Prf1 − / −) mice were obtained from the Jackson Laboratory and bred in the Abramson Research Center Animal Facility at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Our mission is to encourage all animal keeping institutions to enrich the lives for their laboratory, domestic or wild animals and support them with information and updates about environmental enrichment, both from national and international known sources.

Beyond Europe, the CERBM holds a recently renewed certification from the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare granted 31 August 2011 (N ° A5403 - 01).

YEMASSEE, S.C. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alpha Genesis, Inc., a leading provider of primate research products and services, has maintained Full Accreditation from the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, International (AAALAC) for its program of care and use of animals.

Female C57BL / 6 (B6; H - 2b), BALB / c (H - 2d), and FVB (H - 2q) mice were obtained from the Shanghai Laboratory Animal Center (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China).

However, if live mice are sent to EMMA or if live mice are requested from the archive, EMMA ensures that mice are shipped according to conditions that comply with LASA (Laboratory Animals Science Association) guidelines.

Our work benefits from close collaborations with experimental neuroscience laboratories that are collecting neurophysiological data in animals engaged in sophisticated tasks, such as attention, decision making and learning.

In this way, in - depth immunological monitoring, genetic and proteomic analyses, and biomarker discovery from patient samples guides further laboratory investigation, where mechanistic studies can be designed and animal modeling performed.

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) animal facilities have full accreditation from the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care and are PHS - assured (Assurance Number: # A3165 animal facilities have full accreditation from the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care and are PHS - assured (Assurance Number: # A3165 Animal Care and are PHS - assured (Assurance Number: # A3165 - 01).

Before joining the pharmaceutical industry, he was awarded Doctor in Veterinary Medicine and Master of Sciences in Animal Productions from the University of Liège (Belgium), Master of Sciences in laboratory animal sciences from the veterinary school of Lyon (France) and in business administration from the EPM management school in BeAnimal Productions from the University of Liège (Belgium), Master of Sciences in laboratory animal sciences from the veterinary school of Lyon (France) and in business administration from the EPM management school in Beanimal sciences from the veterinary school of Lyon (France) and in business administration from the EPM management school in Belgium.