Sentences with phrase «lab animals cause»

But the low doses used in anti-aging research with mice and other lab animals cause few side effects.

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«when run through a simulated dishwasher 50 to 75 times, name - brand baby bottles leach the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in levels that have caused reproductive abnormalities in lab animals...» This is one of the highest - volume produced chemicals in the world,» says Fredrick vom Saal, a Missouri biology professor and BPA researcher.

«Formaldehyde has been shown in both humans and lab animals to cause structural and numerical changes in their chromosomes, which are associated with increased cancer risk, particularly with leukemia.

In addition, D4 causes tumors, reproductive problems, altered organ size and acts like a weak estrogen in studies of lab animals.

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.

One of the causes of these failures can be found in the pre-clinical lab, during testing with animals.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

Research on lab animals has shown some of the chemicals cause cancerous tumors and damage developing brain cells, and some can alter hormones essential to reproductive and neurological development.

However, animals that had mutations with Pcdha9, but not Sap130, can display defects in the aorta, but with normal - sized left ventricles, suggesting interaction between the two genes is needed to cause all the features of HLHS,» said Xiaoqin Liu, M.D., Ph.D., the first author of the new study and a research instructor in Lo's lab.

Although researchers have known that nitrites and nitrates at high doses can cause cancer in lab animals, de la Monte's results suggest that long - term, low - dose exposure to the compounds may be linked to chronic diseases in humans.

But how closely does the stress caused by restraining a lab animal mimic that experienced by human patients?

English government lab blamed for foot and mouth outbreak Leaky drainage pipes may have allowed the foot and mouth virus to escape from a lab funded by England's Institute for Animal Health in Pirbright, causing last month's outbreaks at two farms in nearby Surrey, government investigators said.

They are covered with tiny cells bearing dangerous toxins that can paralyse prey animals and cause fatal heart attacks in lab rats.

* Two small lab vials of Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is an acute bacterial infection transmitted to humans and some domestic animals by fleas that come from infected rodents.

Lab studies, animal studies, and observations of evacuated patients treated in Europe and the USA have suggested that Ebola might cause lung damage by replicating itself in lung tissue.

Eight past studies looked at whether the sweetener causes cancer in lab animals, says veterinary pathologist James Swenberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Our wet - lab research is focused on the study of Brucella, a facultative intracellular bacterium that causes brucellosis, one of the most common zoonotic diseases in the world in humans and a variety of animal species.

His lab develops isogenic human pluripotent stem cells and transgenic animals to model disease, with the goal of delineating novel approaches to influence outcomes for Huntington disease (HD) and Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), the most common genetic causes of dementia and intellectual disability, respectively.

George and colleagues trained lab rats to self - administer and caused some of the animals to become dependent on alcohol.

This is a little different from the topic at hand, but the idea is pretty much the same: Do lab animals actually find some people more calming, while others cause them stress or fear?

Still, by the 1990s DuPont knew that the chemical caused cancerous tumors in the testes, pancreases, and livers of lab animals, and there was even evidence of human DNA damage and links to prostate cancer in workers exposed to PFOA.

Interestingly, while massive quantities of safrole caused liver cancer in lab animals, it seems that small doses may actually play a protective role for humans.

Paraffin fumes have been found to cause tumors in the kidneys and liver of lab animals.»

These chemicals have been shown to cause cancer in lab animals.

Princeton researchers also state: «In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long - term consumption of high - fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides».

It is prescribed for edema in Germany and may be safer than other remedies because it replenishes potassium.910 Preliminary animal studies suggest that dandelion may help normalize blood sugar and fight inflammation.11 Dandelion root extract caused cancer cells to destroy themselves in a Canadian lab study, which prompted a clinical study (the results of which are not yet available).12

Acrylamide has been shown to cause cancer in lab animals, but we don't know what levels of acrylamide exposures are dangerous for humans.

This chemical was banned by the FDA long ago due to it causing infertility and destroying the testicles of lab animals.

Of course, some celebrities were in attendance to cheer on the animals, help spotlight shelter dogs and support the cause including Denise Richards, Kelly Wearstler, who adopted a lab mix puppy, Autumn Reeser, Patrick Fabian, Amy Smart, Rachelle Lefevre, Matthew Allen, who fostered a cute white pit bull, and Julie Marie Berman.

Even with these omissions, this estimate is 100 - 1000 times higher than our estimates for the numbers of animals affected by advocacy for companion or lab animals, suggesting that farm animal advocacy is the most important cause of the three — at least in terms of the number of animals involved.

Researchers in the Modiano Lab, as part of the Animal Cancer Care and Research Program, are working to understand what causes cancer and what drives its behaviors — translating that knowledge into better treatments and, ultimately, fewer cases of cancer in animals and in human patients.

This happens when a vaccine is injected into an animal with a suppressed immune system (caused by genetic factors, poor diet, stress, existing illness, etc.); or when the vaccine manufacturer fails to render the viral component of the vaccine harmless in the lab.

While there is no clear evidence that they cause cancer in humans, their various harmful effects in lab animals were enough to prompt the Environmental Protection Agency to designate some 200 miles of the Hudson as a Superfund toxic site 25 years ago.