Sentences with phrase «like laboratory mice»

Although the act covers animals like dogs and chimpanzees, it does not cover rodents like laboratory mice.

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There's been a growing realization among diabetes researchers that human islet development differs significantly from islet development in typical laboratory animals like mice.»

After introducing stem cells in brain tissue in the laboratory and seeing promising results, Prof. Offen leveraged the study to mice with Alzheimer's disease - like symptoms.

In a series of laboratory trials, mice given BU10119 demonstrated behaviours consistent with providing antidepressant - like effects.

Unlike many other cellular and physiological processes, human reproduction varies in significant ways from that of common laboratory animals like mice or fruit flies.

The researchers first established that laboratory mice strongly like food with added nonnutritive sweet or oily tastes.

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

And located on TCC's West Campus, the vet tech program sports a 20,000 squarefoot teaching facility with classrooms, clinical laboratories, a treatment area for large animals with stalls for cattle restraint, and a small animal treatment area with six wet tables to examine and treat small animals like dogs and cats, and lab animals like rabbits, rats and mice.

A student typically spends time in laboratories working with cows, dogs, cats, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, birds, exotic animals and traditional laboratory animals like mice and rats.

Because there has been next to nothing published on the relationship of veterinary vaccines to autoimmune / autoinflammatory disease, I rely on the experiences of laboratory animals like mice (ref) and the experiences of humans.