Sentences with phrase «in rodents with»

The virus is found in rodents with rock squirrels, prairie dogs and ground squirrels being the most susceptible in the U.S. Fleas carried by the rodents transmit the bacteria to other animals and humans through their bites.

Walewski, J. L., et al. «Spexin is a novel human peptide that reduces adipocyte uptake of long chain fatty acids and causes weight loss in rodents with diet ‐ induced obesity.»

And another one in rodents with lung cancer published in Science Translational Medicine in 2014 found that normal doses of vitamin E and smaller doses of acetylcysteine, an antioxidant supplement, appeared to lead to a three-fold increase in the number of tumors and caused them to be more aggressive.

The discovery of a series of compounds that can cure malaria in rodents with a single, low - dose treatment is reported in a paper published online this week in Nature.

- Modelling Human Disease in Rodents with CRISPR / Cas9 Genome Editing: June 27th - Why do the results discovered using genetically engineered mice sometimes fail to translate to humans?

Not exact matches

«The findings are encouraging because they are consistent with rodent literature that pinpoints exactly the parts of the brain that play a role in stress - induced memory benefits caused by exercise.»

When placed at the site of a cancerous tumour in a rodent and «activated» by a scope with a light source, the compounds eradicated up to 100 % of cancer cells.

When the committee realized that Buffalo had no real plan for dealing with rodents, it researched what was being done in cities such as Rochester and New York.

Tell me I'm not alone in this: You saw Ratatouille, fell in love with Remy (though you still jumped a foot in the air when you saw a significantly less - charming rodent scamper across your path on the way home) and found yourself with a pressing craving, not for the heavy and too - often soggy traditional Provençal ratatouille, but that kaleidoscope of spiraled colors they served to the haughty and (spoiler!)

I only take issue with your last sentence — in many schools kids are not allowed to save fruit and veggies for snacks due to concerns about spoilage and rodent / bug infestation.

With that said, some things to expect, that may seem strange in a Gestational Carrier Agreement are limits on travel, handling rodents, reptiles and poop, and extreme sports.

We expanded mental health services in schools through partnership with Say Yes and others; maintained an active and robust rodent control program that is having positive results in communities across the county; continued a very popular rabies clinic program that has been attended by thousands of appreciative pets (and owners); and, along with partners, created the innovative Erie County Health Mall to improve local health outcomes.

About a month ago, Erie County Legislature Minority Leader John Mills and I met with County Executive Chris Collins to discuss our concerns regarding cutbacks in the county's rodent control program.

On steps to be taken to prevent the spread of the disease, Idris urged residents to «avoid contact with rats, ensure proper collection and disposal of waste, cover all foods including left - overs and water properly, wash their hands properly before and after cooking of foods, block all rat hideouts and store food items in rodent - proof containers.»

Yet by the end of the week the Guardian had reverted to type with an article comparing my policy as promoting fake controversy in the same terms as Harriet Harman's ill - judged «ginger rodent» comments and Stephen Fry's unlikely expertise on the sex life of women.

Larry the cat — brought in to deal with a rodent problem — was seen sporting a very patriotic bow tie ahead of the No. 10 street party.

The Department of Homeless Services» Advantage program has given rent subsidies to thousands of homeless breadwinners who found jobs and left shelters, but a report by Comptroller John Liu found that poor management put families in dangerous buildings with faulty wiring and rodent problems, and landlords pressured some tenants into illegal side deals, forcing them to pay as much as $ 400 extra a month, the Times reported.

Stringer's audit says that the city has been placing «homeless families with children in shelters plagued by rodents, mold, peeling paint, and broken windows,» among other structural and maintenance problems.

With the support of her rodent - tolerant family, she studied the effects of varying thyroid hormone levels on the physical characteristics of a small rat colony she housed in her living room.

Some rodents can be resistant to the chemical warfarin, so you will need to try something with bromadiolone in it.

While the disease remains a modest threat in rural, undeveloped areas, Green warns that our current stable relationship with plague in the developed world is only as good as our control of urban rodent populations.

«Alterations in the gut microbiota are associated with obesity and the metabolic syndrome in both humans and rodents,» Shulman noted.

In a similar heart study, rodents dosed with phytic acid registered a drop in serum cholesterol of 32 percent and a decrease in triglycerides of 64 percenIn a similar heart study, rodents dosed with phytic acid registered a drop in serum cholesterol of 32 percent and a decrease in triglycerides of 64 percenin serum cholesterol of 32 percent and a decrease in triglycerides of 64 percenin triglycerides of 64 percent.

Furthermore, animal studies suggest that taste buds produce hormones that are important for glucose metabolism and that, in rodents, taste buds decrease in number with age.

They started with pairs of fat yellow mice known to scientists as agouti mice, so called because they carry a particular gene — the agouti gene — that in addition to making the rodents ravenous and yellow renders them prone to cancer and diabetes.

An inflammatory protein that triggers a pregnant mouse's immune response to an infection or other disease appears to cause brain injury in her fetus, but not the premature birth that was long believed to be linked with such neurologic damage in both rodents and humans, new Johns Hopkins - led research suggests.

Closer to home, when carrying out ecological surveying in London, I had been required to liaise with the local authorities — for example, to get permission to trap rodents (alive) in public parks, in order to assess the size of their populations.

The hypoxia - treated rodents lived more than 6 months, compared with about 2 months for untreated animals, Mootha and his colleagues report online today in Science.

However, when they closely examined the effects on the brain of conditioning rodents with a mild foot shock, the scientists found several messenger RNAs recruited to polyribosomes in the medial prefrontal cortex — a clear indication of new protein synthesis there.

In 1947, psychologist Donald Hebb found that rats he raised with his daughters and gave free rein in his home were better learners than lab - raised rodentIn 1947, psychologist Donald Hebb found that rats he raised with his daughters and gave free rein in his home were better learners than lab - raised rodentin his home were better learners than lab - raised rodents.

Using this biosensor in highly invasive breast cancer cells taken from rodents and humans, the Einstein team discovered that when an individual invadopodium forms and is actively degrading the ECM, its Rac1 levels are low; on the other hand, elevated Rac1 levels coincide with the invadopodium's disappearance.

For the in vivo portion, six groups of 10 rodents each were treated with CDN alone, control collagens alone or with CDN, MDP alone or STINGel (CDN plus MDP).

In one test, a colleague injected rats with the dinosaur fossil extract; the rodents produced antibodies that responded to turkey and rabbit hemoglobins.

«The project's goal is to accelerate the development of technologies for mapping the brain's circuitry in animal models, specifically in the marmoset monkey, whose neural circuits are much closer to human compared with rodent models, and to connect the results to the diagnosis and treatment of human neurological disorders and mental illness.»

Perhaps most significantly, in a study led by Frances Champagne — then a graduate student in Meaney's lab, now an associate professor with her own lab at Columbia University in New York — they found that inattentive mothering in rodents causes methylation of the genes for estrogen receptors in the brain.

Specifically, the researchers found that in some areas, the number of rodent - eating predators like foxes seemed to move inversely with the prevalence of Lyme disease; when those predators disappear, the disease may get a boost.

The poison is especially popular among sweet corn growers who are having trouble with raccoons, Rowe says, although people have employed it in attempts to kill everything from rodents to wolves.

As fans of «Duck Dynasty» can attest, hunting for nutria — big, water - loving rodents with bright orange front teeth — is hugely popular in Louisiana.

The study was done with rodent malaria, but the researchers, at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, expect the pattern to apply to human malaria and possibly to other mosquito - borne diseases such as dengue fever and West Nile virus.

In rodents it has been shown that serotonin (a naturally - occurring chemical commonly associated with feelings of happiness) plays a role in maintaining calcium levels; based on this, a team from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, led by Dr Laura Hernandez, investigated the potential for serotonin to increase calcium levels in both the milk and blood of dairy cowIn rodents it has been shown that serotonin (a naturally - occurring chemical commonly associated with feelings of happiness) plays a role in maintaining calcium levels; based on this, a team from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, led by Dr Laura Hernandez, investigated the potential for serotonin to increase calcium levels in both the milk and blood of dairy cowin maintaining calcium levels; based on this, a team from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, led by Dr Laura Hernandez, investigated the potential for serotonin to increase calcium levels in both the milk and blood of dairy cowin both the milk and blood of dairy cows.

And although many of the initial animal studies used mRNAs with pseudouridine, Moderna's new chemistry was already starting to outperform that first generation in rodent studies.

Sandra Kelly, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of South Carolina, points out that neurons in rodent brains have been assayed with methods less accurate than those Harding used.

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.

«Rapamycin treatment prevents crippling abnormal bone formation after severe limb injuries: Significant benefits seen after treatment with FDA - approved drug in rodent model of blast - related limb injury hold promise for first effective treatment to prevent trauma - induced heterotopic ossification (HO) formation.»

Working with mice, researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville have found that rodents are more sensitive to insulin's effects at certain times of day.

As rodents prefer to spend more time with novel objects than familiar ones, the researchers first exposed the mice to two identical objects (cones or pyramids, in either black or white).

After starting with these human observations, Palmer's team is now studying the same delay discounting - related genetic traits in rodent models.

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.

While trying to come up with a contagious method of birth control among rodent pests, an Australian lab in 2001 modified a mousepox virus, which, unintentionally, caused the rodents» immune system to fail completely — even in animals previously vaccinated against mousepox.

Dr Kristensen recommends that an inter-disciplinary approach be taken to address this, «by combining epidemiological data from human studies with more experimental research on models, such as rodents, it may be possible to firmly establish this link and determine how it happens, so that pregnant women in pain can be successfully treated, without risk to their unborn children.»