Sentences with phrase «in laboratory rodents»

The chemical has been linked to reproductive defects in fish and prostate and breast cancer in laboratory rodents — studies suggest it is carcinogenic to humans.

At least in laboratory rodents, high fat diets are no friend of the kidneys.

Fructose maintains a low glycemic index of 23 and a low glycemic load, but paradoxically it is routinely used to induce insulin resistance in laboratory rodents at high (35 — 65 % of energy) dietary concentrations (85,86).

The current findings are «another piece of evidence that what we see in laboratory rodents on caloric restriction translates to humans,» said Richard Weindruch, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, who has studied caloric restriction since 1975 but did not participate in Floel's study.

He spent his basic research career studying the mechanisms of steroid hormone action on the brain, behavior, and mental health, and the influences of the environment and stressors on those actions in laboratory rodents.

Calorie restriction may also preserve intellectual function, or at least what passes for intellectual function in laboratory rodents.

Not exact matches

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), whose goal is to create «battle - winning technologies» for the Ministry of Defence, has registered a 17 % increase in experiments on pigs, rabbits, monkeys and rodents over the last two years.

As a first step, his team is testing whether it's possible to stop or slow tau - driven neuron loss and inflammation by lowering ApoE in the early life of laboratory rodents.

More than 160 papers were published on rodent enrichment in 2016 versus a handful at the turn of the millennium; at the 2016 meeting of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 83 out of 171 rodent presentations focused on enrichment — more than twice the number at the 2009 meeting.

They then induced Parkinson's symptoms in laboratory rats by killing the rodents» dopamine - producing neurons with toxins, and injected the viruses into the damaged tissue of some of the animals.

While studying the inflammatory mechanisms underlying colitis in rodents, a team of researchers led by Dana Philpott and Thierry Mallevaey realized that their laboratory mice were more susceptible to developing the disease if their intestines were already infected with the protozoan Tritrichomonas muris.

In particular, Panksepp's work has focused on «the possibility that our most commonly used animal subjects, laboratory rodents, may have social - joy type experiences during their playful activities and that an important communicative - affective component of that process, which invigorates social engagement, is a primordial form of laughter.»

And that could be bad if what happens in laboratory animals also happens in people, because studies in rodents show that BPA can trigger a host of harmful changes, from reproductive havoc to impaired blood - sugar control and obesity (SN: 9/29/07, p. 202).

As part of the team studying poststroke dementia in Dr. Kristian Doyle's laboratory, Dr. Nguyen applies more than 10 years of experience in quantifying neurodegeneration, immune responses, and behavior in rodent models.

In the laboratory, the researchers exposed juvenile rodents to a single session of unpredictable stress.

Because the duck's touch sensors are similar to mammals» and their bills aren't covered in fur, the authors suggest embryonic duck bills might be a better model than standard laboratory rodents to study touch sensation as it applies to us relatively hairless humans.

In laboratory tests using rodents, White and his colleagues found that while morphine lost its pain - relieving effectiveness three weeks after nerve injury, a combination therapy of morphine and carbamazepine — used to prevent epileptic seizures — could effectively reverse this loss of drug action.

Robin Henig explains how scientists determine if a laboratory rodent is classified as depressed in the search for new, improved antidepressants

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«Laboratory rodent diets contain toxic levels of environmental contaminants: implications for regulatory tests» by Robin Mesnage et al. published in PLOS ONE on Thursday 2 July 2015.

In my previous work, in the laboratory of Stéphanie Lacour at EPFL, we pioneered an electronic device chronically integrated on the surface of the spinal cord (and brain) in rodents (Minev at al, Science 2015In my previous work, in the laboratory of Stéphanie Lacour at EPFL, we pioneered an electronic device chronically integrated on the surface of the spinal cord (and brain) in rodents (Minev at al, Science 2015in the laboratory of Stéphanie Lacour at EPFL, we pioneered an electronic device chronically integrated on the surface of the spinal cord (and brain) in rodents (Minev at al, Science 2015in rodents (Minev at al, Science 2015).

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In laboratory research, rodent models of seizure activity, typically differentiate between absence seizures (a type of generalized epilepsy, in which electrical activity of the entire brain is affected), and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (a type of partial epilepsy, which only affects one hemisphere of the brainIn laboratory research, rodent models of seizure activity, typically differentiate between absence seizures (a type of generalized epilepsy, in which electrical activity of the entire brain is affected), and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (a type of partial epilepsy, which only affects one hemisphere of the brainin which electrical activity of the entire brain is affected), and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (a type of partial epilepsy, which only affects one hemisphere of the brain).

A consortium of researchers from North Carolina State University, Texas A&M, USDA, CSIRO (in Australia), and Island Conservation are in a proof - of - concept phase of developing and testing genetic systems of this sort in the laboratory to precisely eliminate invasive rodents from sensitive ecosystems.

In addition to the strain and age differences, variation in the methodology and the laboratory conditions could interfere with the anxiety and exploration behavior in rodents [43In addition to the strain and age differences, variation in the methodology and the laboratory conditions could interfere with the anxiety and exploration behavior in rodents [43in the methodology and the laboratory conditions could interfere with the anxiety and exploration behavior in rodents [43in rodents [43].

The scientists said they created their mice from the brain cells of rodents that had been kept in laboratory conditions at -20 C.

During this time, I have been actively engaged in clinical studies of participants that have been diagnosed with glaucoma or high - risk ocular hypertension, as well as in laboratory - based studies on experimental glaucoma models in rodents and non-human primates.

Researchers have successfully created functional sperm cells from mouse stem cells in the laboratory, then implanted those cells into rodents» egg cells to produce healthy, fertile offspring.

In this study, we begin the empirical effort to determine the likely direction of immune - mediated virulence evolution by performing experimental evolution of the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi, in laboratory micIn this study, we begin the empirical effort to determine the likely direction of immune - mediated virulence evolution by performing experimental evolution of the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi, in laboratory micin laboratory mice.

Veterinary Services (VS) internship focuses on laboratory animal medicine in various species (feline, cattle, swine, rabbits and rodents).