Sentences with phrase «human equivalent»

Jayne (Adam Baldwin), the wisecracking human equivalent of a pit bill, keeps the weapons loaded for confrontations, deals gone bad, and quick escapes from the space - cannibals called Reavers.

The general physiology of rabbits is similar to that of humans, and like mice and rats, rabbits suffer from many diseases with human equivalents.

The closest human equivalent may be Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

This other toe — which felt every bit as much as its overstuffed human equivalent did, I should add — was attached to a 450 - pound western lowland gorilla, with calcified gums, named King.

But to try the treatment in patients, they will have to identify the mouse proteins» human equivalents first.

An average human equivalent dose of 2 to 6 g intravenously can raise the blood pressure in hemorrhagic shock (extreme blood loss) in experimental animals.

You have to assume Carell's handlers took note of how frequently J.K. Simmons's profane performance as Satan in Whiplash (which, despite all the seasoned professionalism the actor brings to the set, still emerges as the barely human equivalent of the all - staccato soundtrack to Birdman) earned comparison to another prototypal best supporting actor: An Officer and a Gentleman's Lou Gossett Jr..

In 1997 researchers led by Hajime Tei of the University of Tokyo and Hitoshi Okamura of Kobe University in Japan — and, independently, Cheng Chi Lee of Baylor College of Medicine — isolated the mouse and human equivalents of per.

Syringomyelia doesn't exactly roll off one's tongue and neither does its closest human equivalent «Chiari malformation.»

«After leading our cars through the human equivalent of 150 years of driving and helping our project make the leap from pure research to developing a product that we hope someday anyone will be able to use, I am ready for a fresh challenge.»

Behind a smoke screen of piety concerning the difficult job they have to do in «helping» or «providing services,» their purpose is the human equivalent of the breaker's yard: They tear asunder the superstructure of the family and then move to the foundations, demolishing relationships between husband and wife, between parents and children, and even sometimes between the children themselves.

Not the human equivalent of valium that is Michael Owen and his BT sport commentary and not the former Gunner Stewart Robson who seems to think that Arsene Wenger is the devil incarnate.

Though puny of frame, not a few perceive him as the human equivalent of the belching battle tank, firing from all cylinders; and mowing down whoever is on its way.

It would be difficult, if not impossible, to translate the dose they used in mice to a human equivalent, «but it's clear we're not talking about vast amounts.

Once the researchers identified these genes in yeast, they tested the human equivalents in human neurons, grown in a lab dish, that also overproduce alpha synuclein.

Fischetti and his colleagues chose to target the allosteric site of 2 - epimerase to develop inhibitory compounds, because it is found in other bacterial 2 - epimerases but not in the human equivalent of the enzyme.

«I'd like to have a human equivalent to the prairie - vole model,» she says, looking wistful.

In it, he reported conclusive proof that there is a human equivalent of the so - called fat gene in mice.

It sounds awful at first — a 9 - year old's first clarinet lesson would be the human equivalent.

Worries escalated in the 1970s when Brookhaven National Laboratory's Lewis Dahl claimed that he had «unequivocal» evidence that salt causes hypertension: he induced high blood pressure in rats by feeding them the human equivalent of 500 grams of sodium a day.

Indeed, this second gene — the human equivalent of a mouse gene called shaker - 1 — already had a rap sheet for causing sensory problems.

The lambs — removed from their mothers at the human equivalent of 22 weeks — developed normally inside the fake womb.

In this study, rapamycin was added to the diets of mice that were 24 months old — the human equivalent of 70 to 75 years of age.

Wang said the researchers are now trying to find the human equivalent (orthologue) of the MMC9 cells they found in their mouse models.

A thick layer of fat, the human equivalent of blubber, will provide protective insulation but will prolong life for only a limited amount of time.

The human equivalent to the mouse cells, however, would have to be isolated from fetal retinas, posing the familiar problem of finding a source for the immature cells.

For nearly 30 years, researchers have gathered evidence that a group of bizarre, fatal brain diseases — including mad cow and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease — are caused not by a virus or bacterium but by an abnormal form of a protein, called a prion.

Basically these worms lived to the human equivalent of 400 to 500 years.»

The Mongols riding them in hats and long coats belted at the waist are their human equivalent: small and compact and strong as hell.

To determine if increasing the level of NAD would accelerate recovery from kidney injury, the researchers administered extremely large quantities of vitamin B3 nutritional supplements — the human equivalent of hundreds of tablets - to the genetically impaired mice.

(The human equivalent would be about 600 feet high, giving new meaning to the expression, «the joint's jumping.»)

Jasper says rapamycin was able to rescue stem cells even when given to mice starting at 15 months of age — the human equivalent of 50 years of age.

After giving rats the human equivalent of two to three Ecstasy tablets, McGregor found that the drug activated oxytocin - containing neurons in the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that normally releases the hormone.

Chung and his associates searched for biochemical changes that occurred in middle - aged animals (human equivalent of 45 years).

If zebrafish gata5, or its human equivalent, could prompt a particular type of embryonic cell, known as a human embryonic stem cell, to become a beating heart cell, researchers could theoretically use this technique to cultivate and harvest such genetically modified cells in the petri dish and then transplant them into people with failing hearts.

«We will continue to study these genes and their potential involvement in IgA deficiency in dogs and we anticipate that it will be of importance also for the human equivalent», says Mia Olsson.

After being injected with a muscle - preserving gene, some of these mighty rodents maintained the muscles of youthful mice, at the human equivalent of age 80, without exercise [source: Cromie].

In one recent study, obese rats that ate the human equivalent of two cups of wild blueberries per day for eight weeks experienced a significantly improved inflammatory response.

Evidence shows gossiping is the human equivalent to ape - bonding activity «social grooming».

Of course, the lab rats were fed massive quantities of safrole — the human equivalent of consuming about 32 twelve - ounce bottles of root beer a day.

Getting a full night of quality sleep is the human equivalent to a 100 - percent battery charge.

The human equivalent of the low dose of EGCG would be 80 - 90 mg daily.

But since there aren't sufficient polyphenols to mop up all those reactive oxygen species (ROS), their diet and exercise will, over time, lead them to suffer rampant inflammation, probably leading to the human equivalent of blown head gaskets and cracked engine blocks.

In one study, mice that ate the human equivalent of 2.4 ounces of whole walnuts for 18 weeks had significantly smaller and slower - growing prostate tumors compared to the control group that consumed the same amount of fat but from other sources.

According to another study on mice, the human equivalent of just two handfuls of walnuts a day cut breast cancer risk in half, and slowed tumor growth by 50 percent as well.

Research from British universities found that teeth are «the human equivalent of a peacock's tail» — a.k.a. vital to attracting a mate.