Sentences with phrase «into laboratory animal»

Yet putting the same chemical into a laboratory animal's eyes is legal due to an exemption that caters to the long - standing tradition of testing products on animals.

I had no idea during vet school that I would go into laboratory animal medicine.

But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have made an important breakthrough: they have discovered a way to transform skin cells into mature, fully functioning liver cells that flourish on their own, even after being transplanted into laboratory animals modified to mimic liver failure.

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A Chinese laboratory makes its own fentanyl - based animal tranquilizer, W - 18, which finds its way into Maine through Canada.

When RCGD 423 was applied to joint cartilage cells in the laboratory, the cells proliferated more and died less, and when injected into the knees of rats with damaged cartilage, the animals could more effectively heal their injuries.

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.

Because high stress levels can cut into life - span and reproduction, at least in laboratory animals, Wasser says the results — which he emphasizes are preliminary — raise some questions about the efficacy of federal regulations designed to protect the owl.

He expects to spread the range of the method into these other laboratory animals soon.

In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory mice.

That's why Bargmann, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head of Rockefeller University's Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, and her coworkers set out to understand how animals are incorporating social information into their behavior.

Since the rhesus monkey was the most common laboratory monkey at the time and very little was known about its natural behavior, my project was directly relevant to a host of other ongoing research into animal behavior and social dynamics.

Subsequent experiments carried out at the Laboratory of Cell Biology in Rome by Luigi Aloe and one of us (Levi - Montalcini) demonstrated that this remarkable transformation can also take place in the intact animal: repeated injections of NGF into rat fetuses, continued for two to three weeks after birth, resulted in the differentiation of chromaffin cells into sympathetic neurons in the core of the adrenal gland!

Emil von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato, in Robert Koch's laboratory, find that injecting diphtheria toxin into animals produces a serum containing an anti-toxin that provides passive anti-diptheria immunity to people, introducing the use of serum as therapy and showing that immunity did not need to arise internally but could be transferred.

Furthermore, the participants debated ways to improve the care and welfare of laboratory animals and to promote the implementation of the 3R principles (refine, reduce, replace) into daily research practice.

Dr Kevin Strange, president of MDI Biological Laboratory, added: «Scientists here are studying an evolutionarily diverse range of animals to gain insight into the genetic mechanisms underlying the repair and regeneration of complex tissues and why these processes are poorly active in humans.

Another is to monitor the effects of transplanting telomerase - deficient but ex vivo telomere - extended bone marrow into late - generation, TMM - disabled mice, so as to be certain that the niche of such animals (or, by implication, aging humans) will support the homing, engraftment, and initial development and differentiation of such cells; the necessary research is underway now thanks to a SENS Foundation grant to Dr. Zhenyu Ju of the Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences and Max - Planck - Partner - Group on Stem Cell Aging in the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and research partner of prominent telomere biologist Dr. K. Lenhard Rudolph.

Godwin's findings are a validation of the MDI Biological Laboratory's unique research approach, which is focused on studying regeneration in a diverse range of animal models with the goal of gaining insight into how to trigger dormant genetic pathways for regeneration in humans.

Not only had Dalldorf and Sickles identified the first members of a very large group of human viruses, but they also introduced and popularized a new and inexpensive animal into the virology laboratory — the suckling mouse.

Abnormal accumulation of aluminum has been found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, and when aluminum is injected into the brains of laboratory animals, the animals develop a neurological disease similar to Alzheimer's.

When laboratory animals with high cholesterol were given eggplant juice, their blood cholesterol, the cholesterol in their artery walls and the cholesterol in their aortas (the aorta is the artery that returns blood from the heart back into circulation into the body) was significantly reduced, while the walls of their blood vessels relaxed, improving blood flow.

The pathogen taken from pure culture must cause the disease when inoculated into a healthy susceptible laboratory animal

When a case involving an animal laboratory finds the distracted dad once again taking an extended leave of absence from his frustrated family, Douglas» luck takes a turn for the worst after he is inadvertently infected by a top - secret genetic - mutation serum that transforms the two - legged lawyer into a four - legged sheepdog.

Whether it was living comfortably off of their comic book royalties, guiding an angel and descendent of Christ to God Herself, or breaking into an animal laboratory on their way to busting into a major movie studio lot: these guys took care of business.

It will be divided into three complementary sections: the air cargo facility, a central administrative and veterinary clinic building, and the animal handling center with pet boarding facility, veterinary clinic and diagnostic laboratory, animal import and export center, and livestock export handling system.

Toxic products from spoiled foodstuffs Drug residues Hormone levels comparable to amounts that have produced cancer in laboratory animals Artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives, all of which he claims are responsible for an epidemic of cancer and degenerative diseases And even euthanized dogs and cats, which he claims «are routinely rendered by veterinary hospitals or shelters and recycled into pet food.»

Even scarier is what Edward Dubovi, Ph.D., director, Virology Laboratory Animal Health Diagnostic Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, said: «We are sequencing all the time to determine if the H3N2 virus diverges into different clades (almost like substrains of flu).

The federal Laboratory Animal Welfare Act of 1966, amended in 1971 into the more encompassing Animal Welfare Act of today, had required public shelters to hold impounded dogs and cats for at least five days before selling them to laboratories or laboratory animal Laboratory Animal Welfare Act of 1966, amended in 1971 into the more encompassing Animal Welfare Act of today, had required public shelters to hold impounded dogs and cats for at least five days before selling them to laboratories or laboratory animal suppAnimal Welfare Act of 1966, amended in 1971 into the more encompassing Animal Welfare Act of today, had required public shelters to hold impounded dogs and cats for at least five days before selling them to laboratories or laboratory animal suppAnimal Welfare Act of today, had required public shelters to hold impounded dogs and cats for at least five days before selling them to laboratories or laboratory animal laboratory animal suppanimal suppliers.

By requiring the research institution to enter into a contract with an animal rescue group or shelter, there is a clear path to transition cats and dogs from the laboratory or testing facility to an adoption center who can offer these animals the possibility of living out the rest of their lives in a loving home.

On Aug. 24, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act to increase protection for laboratorLaboratory Animal Welfare Act to increase protection for laboratorylaboratory animals.

Dr. Alan Nixon is the director of the Comparative Orthopaedics Laboratory at the Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine, a laboratory dedicated to research into orthopedic diseases of animals and humans, with a particular interest in equine and humanLaboratory at the Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine, a laboratory dedicated to research into orthopedic diseases of animals and humans, with a particular interest in equine and humanlaboratory dedicated to research into orthopedic diseases of animals and humans, with a particular interest in equine and human athletes.

Mars Incorporated recently announced that they have entered into an agreement to purchase pet healthcare provider VCA INC (NASDAQ: WOOF) which operates nearly 800 animal hospitals with 60 diagnostic laboratories throughout the United States and Canada for a total value of approximately $ 9.1 billion.

With research laboratories highly secretive of their work and fearful of exposure and backlash, there is reluctance to venture into a formal adoption program for some of their animals.

Green Chimneys» long history of incorporating animal - assisted activities into therapeutic treatment makes it an ideal laboratory for conducting research in the area of human - animal interaction (HAI),» said Dr. Steven Klee, Green Chimneys Associate Executive...

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The Comparative Orthopaedics Laboratory at Cornell University was founded in 1991 with the specific mission to foster and expand multidisciplinary research into orthopedic problems of animals and man.

I started off working in hospital laboratories and despite an aptitude for medical sciences, I opted for a career in the better - paid fields software engineering, got a BSc (Hons) in that field, and then moved into quality assurance (which had the added benefit of not involving animal experimentation).

On the Green side, we have the original calls for «animal liberation'that date from the 1970s, when a radical offshoot of the environmental movement began to break into laboratories that housed animals for use in medical and cosmetics tests.