But I don't think we should draw conclusions
from rat studies.
Evidence
from rat studies suggests that caffeine increases both AMPK activation and decreases catecholamine production, both of which may work to mitigate visceral fat gain over time.
Evidence
from rat studies suggests that caffeine increases both
Researchers call for greater caution, but skeptics say the evidence
from rat studies is not convincing
Here's what I take away
from the rat study: fasting will make me smarter and more energetic while keeping my girly bits from continuing to be a moody, bleedy drain on the parts of my system that actually help me function.
Not exact matches
A new
study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program, found that
rats consistently exposed to radiofrequency radiation
from cellphones were more likely to develop malignant tumors in the brain and heart.
The 10 - year, $ 25 million toxicological
studies are the most comprehensive assessments to date of health effects and exposure to radio frequency radiation in
rats and mice, according to the online notice
from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a unit of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. medical research agency.
In lab
studies, sleep - deprived
rats have been invaded by bacteria
from their own bowels.
In a lab
study, researchers reported that
rats who consumed powdered liver were able to swim much longer (
from 63 minutes to 2 hours) compared to
rats fed a basic
rat with or without supplemental vitamin B complex.
In a
study titled Repeatedly heated palm kernel oil induces hyperlipidemia, atherogenic indices and hepatorenal toxicity in
rats: Beneficial role of virgin coconut oil supplementation researchers
from Ebonyi State University in Nigeria found that virgin coconut oil supplementation had a positive effect on the kidneys and livers of
rats who were also fed repeatedly heated palm kernel oil.
Another
study from Nigeria published in December of 2017 is titled Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of virgin coconut oil supplementation abrogate acute chemotherapy oxidative nephrotoxicity induced by anticancer drug methotrexate in
rats.
The title of the
study is: Hypocholesterimic effects of cold and hot extracted virgin coconut oil (VCO) in comparison to commercial coconut oil: Evidence
from a male wistar albino
rat model
The title of the
study is: Polyphenols isolated
from virgin coconut oil attenuate cadmium - induced dyslipidemia and oxidative stress due to their antioxidant properties and potential benefits on cardiovascular risk ratios in
rats
In what may the first
study of its kind, researchers in India extracted the antioxidants unique to virgin coconut oil
from the oil and injected them into
rats with induced arthritis.
A recent
study from India published in the Journal of Food Science Technology showed positive results in improving glucose metabolism in high fructose diets in
rats.
A Canadian
study published this year around the same time titled «Coconut oil protects cortical neurons
from amyloid beta toxicity by enhancing signaling of cell survival pathways» observed that coconut oil and its medium chain fatty acids (MCFAs) protect against amyloid beta (Aβ) induced neurotoxicity in primary
rat cortical neurons.
Some of the medical
studies I used as a reference are: Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting: Two potential diets for successful brain aging and Dietary Factors, Hormesis and Health, found on the US National Library of Medicine Site, Cardioprotection by Intermittent Fasting in
Rats on the American Heart Association Site and Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on aerobic and anaerobic performance and perception of fatigue in male elite judo athletes
from the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.
Animals
studies show us that regularly separating baby
from mother alters the brain (the first 10 days of life for
rats is comparable to the first 6 months for human babies).
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).
However, comparison of the inter-rater consistency and consensus of scores
from two
raters, including one non-clinician researcher, with a large selection of
studies showed considerable similarity.
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.
This
study was conducted in samples taken
from rat brains, but sleep is thought to induce backward firing in human neurons, too.
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.
Surprisingly, very little research has been done on the dietary quirks of pregnant women, but
studies on
rats and insights
from the hormonal changes that take place during women's menstrual cycles are providing some clues.
The US National Toxicology Program last week released some results
from a two - year
study in which more than 1000
rats were exposed to differing levels of cellphone radiation for 9 hours a day, for the whole of their lives.
In a 2003
study in
rats, Siemionow had shown that TOL - 101 allowed surgeons to transplant face and scalp tissue
from one animal to another.
Rochelle Buffenstein, a physiologist who is now at the University of Texas Health Science Center, began
studying naked mole
rats in 1980 and took a colony with her when she moved
from South Africa to the United States in 1997.
«The most important takeaway
from this
study is that the effects we
studied on the
rats only took one day of exposure to produce — just six hours,» said Diaz.
The researchers
studied bones
from rats in the three groups at different ages to determine how early in the development of obesity and diabetes the bone was affected negatively.
People differ
from rats in many ways, but the
study supports a growing body of evidence that there's an evolutionary basis for helpful behavior, independent of culture or upbringing, Mason says.
In the current
study, the researchers took diaphragm tissue
from donor
rats and removed all the living cells
from it using a series of chemical treatments.
Rats, the world's foremost invasive species, have traveled the world with explorers and traders; so have tropical fire ants, which genetic
studies suggest have hitchhiked
from southwestern Mexico to Asia and beyond starting in the 16th century in soil used as ballast in Spanish ships.
In their
study, Bontempi's team fed cumin - spiced food to a set of
rats and then introduced them to another group, whose frontal cortex had been temporarily cut off
from communication with the hippocampus.
Studies in
rats and mice sometimes get dismissed as being very far
from the human conditions.
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have found that amounts of this microRNA are significantly elevated in the brains of experimental
rats with induced depression
from corticosterone treatment, in the post-death brains of humans diagnosed with MDD and in peripheral blood serum
from living patients with MDD, according to a
study by led by Yogesh Dwivedi, Ph.D., the Elesabeth Ridgely Shook Endowed Professor and director of Translational Research, UAB Mood Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry.
The scientists zeroed in on the cells
from the hippocampi of the cadavers, examining the switch for the stress hormone gene they had
studied in
rats.
So instead of
studying the whole animals, he began isolating single nerve cells
from the mole
rats and investigating them in lab dishes to track the molecular basis of the rodent's pain insensitivity.
The virtual world used in the
study was very similar to virtual reality environments used by humans, and neurons in a
rat's brain would be very hard to distinguish
from neurons in the human brain, Mehta said.
Studies from islands including Flores, Sri Lanka, and others suggest that early colonizers often coexisted with native fauna, perhaps because their populations were smaller and their technology simpler, or because they did not introduce invasive species such as
rats and dogs.
Researchers
from UNSW Medicine
studied the impact of a commonly used probiotic on the gut health and cognitive function of
rats, which were fed either a healthy diet or a «cafeteria diet» high in saturated fat and sugar.
Researchers
from the University of Michigan and the Mayo Clinic
studied rat IEC - 6 intestinal epithelial cells, chosen because they maintain a stable diploid genomic structure (two sets of chromosomes), lack the cellular characteristics of cancer cells, and replicate normally.
In the lab, they adapted the standard experimental technique for
studying place cells: implanting electrodes directly into a
rat's hippocampus and recording
from them as the animal runs freely in a large box (see «A sense of place»).
The road to answering these questions may have a lot to do with specific genetic factors that vary
from individual to individual, a new
study in
rats suggests.
In the NIH
study, the scientists isolated individual, nano - sized collagen fibrils
from rat - tail tendons.
Injections of a new drug may partially relieve paralyzing spinal cord injuries, based on indications
from a
study in
rats, which was partly funded by the National Institutes of Health
A new
study shows that
rats will, indeed, rescue their distressed pals
from the drink — even when they're offered a chocolate treat instead.
Researchers
from the Department of Psychology and
from the Department of Biology of Physical Activity at the University of Jyväskylä
studied the effects of sustained running exercise, HIT and resistance training on adult hippocampal neurogenesis in adult male
rats.
In several
studies the neurological processing of lead - exposed
rats from enriched environments could not be distinguished
from that of
rats that had no lead exposure at all.
In a
study appearing online the week of June 12 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers
from Duke University have shown that summoning these pro-healing macrophages can greatly help regrow severed nerves in
rats.
Acting like miniature trees that soak up sunlight and release oxygen, photosynthetic bacteria injected into the heart may lighten the damage
from heart attacks, a new
study in
rats suggests.