Sentences with phrase «further animal studies»

Further animal studies led to the FDA's change of heart.

He and his colleagues plan further animal studies of the drug and hope to move on to safety trials in people.

The exact mechanisms must be probed in further animal studies, Reid says, but eventually he hopes researchers will be able to use a patient's bacterial makeup as a biomarker for cancer screening or to develop probiotics for improving prognosis and treatment outcomes.

Further animal studies by Kipnis and others show that learning new tasks triggers a mild stress response within the brain, which prompts CD4 cells to rally to the meninges, the membranes that surround the brain.

Not exact matches

And earlier this year, a study showed a neural link between generosity and happiness, further cementing humans as fundamentally social animals.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

So far, all human studies of oxytocin's role in social interaction show that we respond similarly to animals.

Aquatic animals were by far the most commonly reported type of injury, accounting for two - thirds of studies.

Further studies in animal models and patients (with altered TRPM7 channel function) have been initiated, in order to evaluate the efficacy and safety of magnesium as a therapeutic for this disease.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

In subsequent studies the researchers plan to analyze further relevant datasets in order to test different scenarios of the evolution of the earliest animal phyla.

Last week, a research consortium posted the draft sequence of the naked mole rat's genome online; further study may unlock the genetic clues to this unique animal's survival abilities.

Inhibitory cell - based neuro - therapy is a new approach and has shown promise to date in early animal studies, warranting further development,» says Cory Nicholas, a co-first author.

«The study provides further evidence to explain why dinosaurs were one of the most successful groups of animals to live on this planet.»

Nath's team is currently developing an animal model of Nodding syndrome to further study the disease and test potential therapies.

The biomedical device company CryoLife, Inc. is now using the researchers» design to build ring implants for further studies in lab animals, Karp says.

Because the researchers found that CTLA4Ig was effective in suppressing hepatitis in this study, they suggest that CTLA4Ig should be among the therapeutic options investigated further as a potential therapy for patients with severe acute hepatitis B. To this end, this animal model is useful for virological and immunological analysis of HBV infection.

Professor Palombo said studies in animals and, eventually, humans are required to take this research further.

Shettleworth calls the study «provocative,» but insists that further experiments with more animals are needed before Santino's behavior can be interpreted as advance planning.

But others worry that the study, if wrongly interpreted, could lead to further restrictions on animal research.

Although the trial first received the go - ahead in January last year, it was put on hold the following August by the US Food and Drug Administration, which demanded further evidence that the treatment wouldn't cause cysts like those seen in some animal studies.

Vertebrate evolution generally proceeds at far less than a snail's pace, making study of the process in living animals difficult at best.

Griffin is now studying other penguin species and four - legged animals to further explore the mechanics and energetics of walking.

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.

While the mouse study does not prove a direct connection between Zika infection and microcephaly, Rossi said, it does underscore the urgent need for effective animal models to further study the course of disease and its transmission.

Complicating study of the virus even further, a lab study found that an infected mosquito can pass the virus to nearby mosquitoes while they are feeding on an uninfected animal.

The amazing variety of human faces — far greater than that of most other animals — is the result of evolutionary pressure to make each of us unique and easily recognizable, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

While the overall distribution of white sharks is very broad, ranging from Newfoundland to the British Virgin Islands and from the Grand Banks to the Gulf of Mexico as far west as the Texas coast, 90 percent of the animals recorded in this study were found along the East Coast roughly between the Florida Keys and northern Caribbean Sea to Nova Scotia, Canada.

«The next stage would be to repeat the study in primates, a more suitable animal model where HIV infection induces disease, in order to further demonstrate elimination of HIV - 1 DNA in latently infected T cells and other sanctuary sites for HIV - 1, including brain cells,» Dr. Khalili said.

Studying animals that show similar hemispheric biases for their own vocalization — like primates, sea lions and horses — could reveal important clues about how ancient language - processing mechanisms are, she adds: «Evolutionarily, this could go far beyond primates to a common ancestor for all mammals.

Most studies of animal warning colors focus on how well they deter potential predators, but far fewer have examined whether the same signals help their bearers avoid detection by parasites, prey, or competitors, the researchers say.

Our findings have confirmed that it is crucial to study further the actual microbial environment within the animal fur to confirm these associations.»

It turns out that these exotic sea critters — affectionately known to the researchers in the study as «shrimp from Mars» — can see a kind of light that, as far as we know, is not apparent to any other animal on the planet.

Further studies showed that very similar genes controlled the process in animal and human cells, and also helped piece together how the genes work together to keep the cell's recycling centers running.

This study also increased the number of genetic markers scientist can use to study the population biology of great white and related sharks, Stanhope said, by a thousandfold, from which they hope to further expand knowledge of these fascinating animals, many of which are in urgent need of conservation.

Model behavior So far, there are only a few autism studies in which the sex of animals seems to make a difference, but that may be because scientists have only just begun to look.

A report published in March in the journal Trends in Genetics revealed that the lizardlike native of New Zealand has undergone the fastest rate of molecular evolution of any vertebrate animal studied thus far.

The authors of that study reported that termite mounds are «hotspots» of plant growth and animal activity that decreases the farther one gets from the mound.

The studies suggest that the viruses — one of which also widely circulates in animals in Vietnam — could be involved in brain inflammation and paraplegia, but further studies are needed to confirm a causative link.

Author of the study Aldrich commented, «Far too often, well - meaning, animal - loving people fail to recognize the suffering of wild primates in captivity.

The results of this study contribute to our understanding of how plants and animals will respond to global climate change and highlight the need to slow and prevent further warming.

This ability — termed maneuverability — has far - reaching implications for animal success and survival (1, 2) but is challenging to study because it includes a wide range of distinct behaviors and is characterized by spontaneity.

In a study published in the June 12 edition of Science, they detail how a new drug repaired damage to the colon, liver and bone marrow in animal models — even going so far as to save the lives of mice who otherwise would have died in a bone marrow transplantation model.

A Mexican national who went to school not far from Xochimilco, she never thought much about the animal and certainly never considered studying it until she came to Germany.

Dr. Zhu said he believes the study provides the scientific community with an important animal model to further investigate ARID1B's role in human brain disorders and will be a useful tool for therapeutic testing of potential treatments for autism, intellectual disability, and Coffin - Siris syndrome.

But without further study in live animals, «it's impossible to say» how important the webs are for fighting infection, cautions microbiologist Victor Nizet of the University of California, San Diego.

A new study at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama shows that lianas prevent canopy trees from producing fruit, with potentially far - reaching consequences for other plants and animals.

«Our studies in animals so far suggest it doesn't have major side effects.»

«The results of our study have huge implications for better understanding early sea turtle survival and behavior, which may ultimately lead to new and innovative ways to further protect these imperiled animals,» said Mansfield.

At a just - concluded archaeology meeting in Paris, and in a paper published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they draw upon further studies at the site to argue that the animal remains — which include the shells of 71 tortoises and the bones of at least three wild cattle — were consumed during a feast to commemorate the death and burial of the woman.