Sentences with phrase «given animal researchers»

The changes in wording seem to have given animal researchers a bit of a ratings bump.

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Much of the effect can likely be explained by researchers unconsciously giving hints or suggestions to their human or animal subjects, perhaps in something as subtle as body language or tone of voice.

When the researchers gave the mice a drug called lamotrigine, often prescribed for bipolar disorder, the animals» brain activity mimicked that of their resilient counterparts: The neurons in the already hyperactive VTA started firing even more intensely, followed by a lull and abatement of depression symptoms.

Microbial transfer from mom to offspring happens in a lot of species, but researchers are more familiar with how species that give live birth do this than those that lay eggs, biologist Stacey Weiss of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., noted August 1 at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.

When the young animals were successfully weaned, researchers gave them a series of tests to gauge their fear response, along with their cognitive, memory and social skills.

Reading the walrus diaries gives the researchers insight into the animals» working lives.

Given the importance of oxygen for animals, researchers suspected that a sudden increase in the gas to near - modern levels in the ocean could have spurred the Cambrian explosion.

And even when the researchers forced the neurons to fire in bursts, animals that had been given ketamine no longer showed depressionlike behaviors.

To understand whether and how Achaeopteryx actually flew, researchers would need to reconstruct the animal's full range of motion — a challenging prospect given that muscles don't fossilize, says Voeten, of Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic.

The deficient animals, for example, gave up more easily in a classic forced swimming test, were less inclined to explore, and were more inclined to stay near the wall of a cage, «a widely accepted index of anxiety,» the researchers noted in their study.

The evidence that oxygen radicals were beneficial came from experiments in which researchers gave animals an antioxidant called N - acetyl cysteine.

Such observations give biologists richer insights into animal behavior, others say, and might help researchers learn more about the roots of human culture by clarifying what makes it distinctive.

The findings highlight the importance of giving animals enough room to move freely in the face of future climate change, researchers say.

To confirm that possibility, the researchers transferred the microbes into mice that had no intestinal bacteria, either by feeding the microorganisms to the animals or giving them the Bacteroides - rich feces of some ipilimumab - treated patients.

When the researchers gave OV329 to cocaine - or nicotine - addicted rats, dopamine spikes were neutralized, blocking the addictive reward response and halting the animals» self - administration of the drugs.

«In the long term, such wide - ranging disruptions could pose an important threat to tropical biodiversity, given the myriad ecological linkages among rainforest trees and their many dependent animal, plant and fungal species,» the researchers conclude in their paper presenting the findings, published online November 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Remarkably, giving animals injections of lithium salts — which mimics WNT signaling by inhibiting the molecule GSK3 — or giving animals a more specific GSK inhibitor, the researchers were able to restore normal synapse and spine numbers and also improve some of the most significant psychiatric - like behavioral abnormalities in these mice.

It has given researchers faster or simpler ways to modify the DNA of crops and animals, conduct biomedical experiments, and, most controversially, genetically engineer human embryos.

And without a three - month limit, the researchers could give the animals as much time as needed to acclimate to a bizarre new game.

These investigations also gave the researchers greater insights into how the size of adhesive footpads is influenced and constrained by the animals» evolutionary history.

«At the time, the US study showed that rapamycin extends lifespan irrespective of whether the treatment is given to young or aged animals,» says the Bonn - based researcher.

Better drugs could provide relief, but before giving new medicines to people, researchers must first test them in animals — a costly and laborious process.

The recommendations are all the more critical given that the models don't take into account other threats to lemurs and the many animals that share their forest home, the researchers say.

As a result, he and other researchers have begun genetically modifying pig embryos with the hope they will eventually give rise to pigs that contain one or more human organs — the subject of his feature - length article «Human Organs from Animal Bodies.»

Researchers gave animal models an oral supplement of spermidine and found that they lived longer and were less likely than untreated individuals to have liver fibrosis and cancerous liver tumors, even when predisposed for those conditions.

Given the animal data, «there's a good chance that it will work,» says Brian Greenwood, a malaria researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Now, thanks to the analysis of the ancient jawbone of a sharp - toothed, dolphinlike creature, researchers think they know how such a terrifying animal gave rise to its docile, filter - feeding kin.

Researchers applied mathematical models of animal locomotion to show why height gives them a competitive advantage.

Given the threats posed by climate change and evolving disease, researchers say that holding on to that diversity may prove key to ensuring steady supplies of fresh milk and other animal products.

Given omega 6 fatty acid's reputation for promoting cancer — at least in animal studies — researchers are examining the role that antioxidants play in blocking the harmful effects of this culprit, found in many cooking oils.

Sladek explained that some of the negative metabolic effects of animal fat that researchers often see in rodents could actually be due to high levels of linoleic acid, given that most U.S. farm animals are fed soybean meal.

Previously, researchers had to conduct costly and time - consuming experiments with animals or human subjects to see how the nervous system responds to a given touch stimulus.

The researchers gave each animal a score for hypersociability, or extreme friendliness, towards humans.

As rapidly as the animals» tumors shrink, Cliff's stature expands, until, before long, he has co-authored a major paper with Sandy and Marion, NIH has given the lab a big new grant, and People magazine has arrived to photograph the researchers on the way to curing cancer.

In experiments described in a paper published online today in Cell, the researchers gave mice a molecule that blocks the insulin receptor on cells, tricking the animals» bodies into reacting as if they needed more insulin and producing more β cells.

Yet when Evans and his colleagues recently gave a PPAR & # 948 - boosting drug to normal adult mice, the rodents developed no greater stamina than nondoped counterparts — until the researchers had the animals combine the drug with a workout routine.

Studying these symptoms earlier in the animal model gives researchers more time to monitor the progression of the disease as well as assess the efficacy of potential therapeutics and to determine if and when the course of the disease could be altered.

He is listed by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the most highly cited authors in the Plant and Animal Science category, recognition given to only the top 250 researchers in the field.

Working with animal models, researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center now have demonstrated the potential of giving a drug in combination with tPA that might improve stroke outcomes and increase the window of opportunity for the therapy.

The recommendations are all the more critical given that the models don't take into account other threats to lemurs and the many animals that share their forest home, the researchers say.Every year, thousands of acres of Madagascar's forests disappear due to illegal logging, mining and burning to clear space for crops.

In an animal study, published in 2011 in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, the researchers gave mice that react badly to insulin feed containing 1 percent ethanol extract of Artemisia dracunculus [PMI5011].

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

While it is true that researchers have induced heart disease in some animals by giving them extremely large dosages of oxidized or rancid cholesterol — amounts ten times that found in the ordinary human diet — several population studies squarely contradict the cholesterol - heart disease connection.

Although the animals used in this study had the equivalent of Type 1 diabetes in humans, the researchers are confident that buckwheat will exert similar glucose - lowering effects when given to animals with Type 2 diabetes, which is the next study on their agenda.

At the end of the supplementation period the researchers gave their lab animals labelled palmitate [a fatty acid] and a labelled glucose analogue.

Researchers discovered that after giving subjects a powerful anti-inflammatory drug along with animal protein, the hyperfiltration response disappeared, suggesting the hyperactive response was triggered by inflammation.

By eliminating Insulin 2 in animals, the researcher noticed they could give them all the food they wanted and they were protected from obesity.

In the animal study, researchers divided a group of 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups: a control group, a group fed the grape compounds and a group given sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug that an earlier study showed decreased the incidence of tumors.

Japanese researchers found that after viewing images of cute animals, test subjects performed at a higher level when given a specific task to complete.

Researchers from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)[6] found that appearance was the single most important reason people gave for why they adopted the dog they did.