Sentences with phrase «from animal data»

From Animal Data to Human Practice.

However, much of this data results from animal data as it is difficult to experiment on live humans.

As a result, current knowledge about the connectivity of the human AAN is largely based upon extrapolations from animal data.

Not exact matches

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

The ancients based their opinions on data gathered from studies of the pregnant mother or through the dissection and vivisection of pregnant animals.

When Loren Eiseley describes the process of evolution of plant and animal life struggling through the hot, red winds of the young earth, and when space shots send back data from the Moon and Mars, our cosmic vision expands.

However, the rat data are from young, growing animals whose physiological state might be much different from an adult human.

Collectively, the data presented in these application submissions have not identified potential health and safety concerns, and support the conclusion that food and / or livestock animal feed derived from provitamin A biofortified GR2E rice is as safe and nutritious as food or feed derived from conventional rice varieties.

Although there's little scientific data on the effects of BPA on humans, results from animal studies suggest that it's unsafe.

These results, coupled with data received from animals studies, can give us a good idea if a product is harmful for human use.

I am unsure why you disagree with using data / results from studying other animals that are known to be similar to humans — I see studies all the time that correlate results in other species (eg, to demonstrate the carcinogenic properties of something, they give it to rats and watch for tumors).

The most recent study report described in these same regions decreased tissue levels of 5 - HT and tryptophan hydroxylase, the synthesizing enzyme for serotonin, and no evidence of excessive serotonin degradation as assessed by levels of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid (the main metabolite of serotonin) or ratios of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid to serotonin.30 A recent article described a significant association between a decrease in medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity and specific SIDS risk factors, including tobacco smoking.40 These data confirm results from earlier studies in humans39, 41 and are also consistent with studies in piglets that revealed that postnatal exposure to nicotine decreases medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity.42 Animal studies have revealed that serotonergic neurons located in the medullary raphe and adjacent paragigantocellularis lateralis play important roles in many autonomic functions including the control of respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, thermoregulation, sleep and arousal, and upper airway patency.

Prosecuting would be a «difficult and unworkable task, as little or no evidence is available regarding [the substances»] pharmacological activities in vivo in humans and expert witnesses may be reluctant to extrapolate data from animal models, in silico or in vitro studies,» lecturer in criminal law Amber Marks told the committee.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

«As the poles are thought to harbor ecosystems like those from millions of years ago, our data suggest that more ancient animals were slow - growing,» Moss says.

They charted how fluctuating oxygen concentrations correlated with the emergence of new animals as seen in the fossil record and from genetic data.

Using data from high - speed video recordings of 96 feedings, the researchers measured the speed of the salamanders» tongue thrusts as the animals ate crickets, termites, and other bugs.

While the relationship is far from established, animal data may help clarify the results.

By attaching small data - logging packs with motion sensors to the backs of four colugos, researchers found that it takes one - and - a-half times more energy for the animals to climb up a tree and glide from point A to B than it does for them to move the same distance through the trees.

Using genetic data from modern animals to figure out what went on in the past is like flipping to the end of a novel and reading only the ending; it shows how things ended up but doesn't indicate how the story started or unfolded.

Researchers from around the world have now pooled their data on the movements of a wide array of marine animals, enabling them to look for common features in how animals move throughout the world's oceans.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

Using data sourced from existing studies and information collected together in the Liverpool ENHanCEd Infectious Diseases (EID2) database, the researchers cross-referenced all known cases of parasites and pathogens in domestic animals with the length of time they have been domesticated by man.

Among the data still unavailable are the vast majority of reports from regular inspections of animal - holding facilities that are monitored under AWA, including puppy mills and zoos.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags — devices that can transmit data over short distances to identify objects, animals or people — have become increasingly popular for tracking everything from automobiles being manufactured on an assembly line to zoo animals in transit to their new homes.

The team created highly detailed data sets and visualizations relying on expertise from researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, after they tracked three highly iconic but threatened species: California condors, giant pandas, and dugongs, a large, marine animal somewhat similar to the manatee.

«Moreover, the technique hurts the animal minimally and bats fly away after providing data for research,» said Natalia Martinkova from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

By playing Digital Fishers, citizen scientists help researchers gather data from video, and unveil the mechanisms shaping the animal communities inhabiting the deep.

Unless the digestive status of the animal in the study is known, it's possible that oxidative damage from digestion could provide misleading data.

«Experience working with pharmacometric data from humans, or animals closest to humans, is highly sought after,» says Ed Dupuis, pharmacologist at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

An international team from 8 countries, led by animal ecologist Satoshi Ohdachi at Hokkaido University, analyzed the phylogenetic information (including existing data) of 169 house shrews.

Data from hearing animals previously reported by Butler and colleagues (2016) are included for comparison.

Campbell stumbled across statistics about osteoporosis in the 1980s when he took a break from his animal studies to direct the China - Oxford - Cornell project, a massive investigation of diet and disease based on data gathered from 6,500 rural Chinese families.

According to IFTF data, the vast majority of the fur industry's pelts — upwards of 85 percent — now come from farm - raised animals.

We have to rely on in vivo data when we go from animals to humans,» says Gabrielsson.

«Data collected from our study found that pindolol diminishes ethanol intake in animal models of binge - alcohol consumption.

Using clinical, genetic, and gene expression data as filters to distinguish genes whose copy number alteration causes cancer from those for whom copy number changes are incidental, the team whittled down their list from 14,000 to a more manageable number, each of which they systematically tested using genetic experiments in animals.

But big data from genetic fingerprinting of animal DNA in a landscape combined with fine - resolution satellite data and sophisticated ecological models can.

Thirteen years ago, both the FDA and a National Institutes of Health expert panel reviewed data on the milk from rBST - treated animals and pronounced it safe (SN: 12/15/90, p. 372).

Using a combination of satellite and ground data, the team can map multiple indicators of monkey distribution, including human activity zones as inferred from roads and settlements, direct detections from mosquito - derived iDNA, animal sound recordings, plus detections of other species that are usually found when monkeys are present, such as other large vertebrates.

«We don't have any concrete data on exports from India or Sri Lanka in terms of wild - caught animals.»

By studying the mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA as well as other genetic data from the animal, Link Olson of the University of Alaska Museum determined that it was more closely related to savanna baboons than mangabeys.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

His adviser at the time, animal genomicist Martien Groenen of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, had sequenced these genomes and had gathered additional, albeit less complete, genetic data from 600 other wild and domesticated pigs as part of another study.

But because scientific data often looks much different from the data used for animal photos and speech, developing the right artificial neural network can feel like an impossible guessing game for nonexperts.

«We estimate that data from millions of patients and animals may be tucked away in predatory journals,» said Dr. Manoj Lalu, associate scientist and anesthesiologist at The Ottawa Hospital, assistant professor at the University of Ottawa and co-author of the study.

Although ideally all data would come from animals in the wild, other studies have shown that TEE rates in captive and wild apes are about the same, regardless of activity levels, Van Schaik notes.

While more data are needed to improve the model, and it is unclear if it can be extrapolated to animals of much larger body mass, the researchers hope that it might help predict features of non-avian dinosaur locomotion using data from fossils and footprints.

Data of seven species from various domains of life were used: from bacteria, fungi, plants, animals to humans.

By combining data from two kinds of tracking tags attached to the animals, an unusual analysis shows that sharks fatten up for the demands of migration much the way birds do, says Gen Del Raye of the University of Hawaii in Manoa.