Sentences with phrase «limited animal studies»

But as the paper points out, this notion is not based on scientific evidence, as there are limited animal studies to support it.

Not exact matches

Resistant starch is gaining momentum in the nutrition community due to emerging evidence in animal studies and some limited evidence in human studies suggesting that RS may positively affect body composition, favorably impact blood lipid and blood glucose levels and increase the amount of good bacteria in the colon, and may enhance satiety when consumed with whey protein.

And although he terms the new study «bold,» the factors that limit maximum speed in small animals are likely very different than those limiting large ones, he suggests.

Jaak Panskepp pioneered the study of animal emotions — a subject most neurobiologists considered off - limits.

«One big limit was the idea that we can study animal behavior, but we can not understand their minds because that's subjective.»

This need for energy places hard limits on what animals can do and how big they can be,» said McClain, who was a co-author on the study.

«The study of this type of tumours has been problematic up to now due to the lack of cell models and the appropriate animal models,» says CNIC researcher Juan Carlos Ramírez, who adds that the difficulty of generating these chromosomal translocations had limited the availability of cells with this mark of the disease.

Until now, the ability of researchers to study the animals» brains while they socialize or look for food has been relatively limited.

WeizMass and MatchWeiz are not limited to the study of plant metabolites but may also be used to investigate the biology of other living systems, including animal and human metabolism.

This study is the first of a new article type: Telemetry Case Reports, being published by Animal Biotelemetry, which hopes to highlight small pilot studies on single individuals or very limited samples.

«Traditional methods of infectious disease research using animal models have provided limited information about disease progression until the study's endpoint, when investigators could analyze tissues from those animals,» he said.

Because different species vary widely in their susceptibility to radiation, this limited data has made it difficult to study how wild animals adapt to radiation exposure.

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.

«We have animal literature, which shows direct links between exposure and adverse health outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead author.

Previously, neuroscientists had limited their studies to recording brain activity in one animal at a time.

Regarding kidney health, animal studies suggest that marijuana might affect kidney function, but data in humans are limited.

Recommendations aimed at reducing the incidence of cancers associated with nutrition are based on limited but suggestive evidence from epidemiological studies and animal experiments

«Small population sizes and habitat fragmentation are well known threats to animals with limited mobility, but the impacts of these factors are hard to observe in wild populations,» said Forero - Medina, Species and Science Director for WCS's Colombia Program and a study co-author.

Because of a lack of standardised and harmonised preclinical studies, there is limited information we can so far obtain from literature on the relative predictive value of different animal models and alternative methods for vaccine evaluation.

Previous work by the NC3Rs showed that many publications reporting publicly funded animal research from the UK and US lacked key information on how the study was designed, conducted and analysed, which could limit their value in informing future scientific studies and policy.

Senescence acts as a homeostatic mechanism that can even limit renal fibrosis, at least in animal studies.

However, these studies have been limited by only testing animals at younger ages; older animals have rarely been examined.

Studies have shown that animal protein consumption should be limited because meat is hard for the body to digest.

In animal studies, Eric Secor of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine discovered that bromelain reduces the immune system's reaction to allergens and limits airway inflammation.

The research is limited, and include only anecdotes and two animal studies, so for now, it's hard to tell if any of these claims about raspberries and weight loss are true.

Limited animal and human studies have shown that PPI therapy may decrease insoluble calcium absorption or bone density.

A combination of limited human data and a wealth of animal studies show that phthalates, as only one of many chemicals in fragrances, can impair reproduction and development, alter liver and kidney function, damage the heart and lungs, and effect blood clotting.

From memory, I believe T. Colin Campbell («The China Study») presented a slide where he said the safe limit of animal products was 10 % of calories consumed.

Based on the mixed results of these animal studies and a lack of research in pregnant women at this time, it may be best to limit flax to occasional small doses during pregnancy.

Although human studies are limited, animal and test tube research have shown time and time again that cordyceps has the capacity to destroy cancer cells, help normalize low white blood cell count occurring as a result of chemotherapy, and even make certain medications more toxic to cancer cells.

Consumption of animal protein is also shown in scientific studies to be linked directly with increased constipation so we recommend avoiding or limiting meat during the colon detoxification process.

Although the health benefits of eating coconut oil are well - studied, research on its effects on the skin is mostly limited to animal or test - tube studies.

In addition to limiting the indirect effects of mitochondria on muscle growth, a recent animal study suggests that antioxidant supplements may play a more active role in limiting muscle growth (14).

Although much of the clinical research related to fasting is limited to animal studies, the abundance of first - hand accounts from people who fast is remarkable, exciting, and encouraging.

According to animal studies recommended upper limit for MSM powder is about 30 grams per day.

There are very limited studies on pregnant women determining the effects of hydroquinone on pregnancy (since I assume most pregnant women don't want to be part of such clinical trials...), but due to hydroquinone's high absorption rate and animal studies reporting carcinogenic effects in rats, it's recommended pregnant and nursing women avoid using this chemical.

Though there have been limited studies on the effects of antioxidants on the overall health of rabbits, research on humans and other animals suggests that consuming antioxidants in fruits and vegetables may lower the risk of heart disease, diabetes, respiratory problems, inflammatory illnesses (including arthritis), and cognitive problems (such as dementia in humans).

But they were conducted at a time when our understanding of both human and animal behaviour was in its infancy and our ability to study it was very limited.

To accomplish our mission, we serve as a «one - stop - shop» for our veterinary faculty, other campus units and study sponsors by providing clinical technical expertise, administrative support and financial oversight for small and large animal clinical trials in multiple disciplines, including (but not limited to) ophthalmology, oncology, neurology, cardiology, dermatology, diagnostic imaging, dentistry, internal medicine, orthopedics and soft tissue surgery.

Health Risk Assessments Support Veterinary Preventive Care Bob Lavan, MS, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM, associate director Outcomes Research Team, Zoetis, led the study of 563 companion animals (dogs and cats) that compared standard wellness office visits (history, physical exam, and limited laboratory screening) with medical findings and experiences with that same type of office visit but now including the PWR.

The study, led by The HSUS and supported by Maddie's Fund, focused on Louisiana and Mississippi — two states identified as having limited animal sheltering infrastructures combined with large homeless pet populations.

ACE thinks that some of HLL's early studies were not conducted as well as they could have been, and that there were problems in some of the write - ups of those studies.262 For example, HLL conducted five studies with the same participant pool, which might have caused the results of some of those studies to be influenced by earlier experimental manipulations.263 Some studies also did not include appropriate control groups, and many studies did not control for desirability bias.264 We think these early studies helped influence animal advocates to see research into animal advocacy methods as possible and desirable, but that their utility is otherwise limited by some of their design flaws.

Although few studies about the numbers of animals entering shelters and the numbers of healthy animals euthanized in shelters have been done and those that are available depend on a limited number of survey responses, all indications are that fewer dogs are entering animal shelters, more of the dogs that are entering shelters are leaving for new homes, and there is actually a shortage of puppies and small dogs in some areas of the country.

The professional field of animal behavior is not limited to the study of companion animals.

Because our study involved only privately owned dogs and no purpose - bred research animals, the availability of tissue samples for histologic examination was limited to eight eyes generously donated by owners.

Eric Sanford, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, and co-author of the study said that «there are likely limits to how much this mechanism can buffer this animal against global change.»

One final example is the prefrontal cortex, which is thought to play an important role in regulating behavior by suppressing impulses and emotions arising from the amygdala and other parts of the limbic system.50 — 52 In animal studies, exposure to chronic stress or glucocorticoids alters the synaptic connectivity within the prefrontal cortex, 52,53 and this may limit the ability of the prefrontal cortex to (1) suppress the impulsivity and aggression of the limbic system, and (2) execute adaptive responses (rather than maladaptive responses) to stress.54 — 56 Stress - induced changes in brain structure parallel the well - described impact of significant childhood adversity on a variety of brain functions, including the modulation of physiologic responses (hyper - responsive or chronically active stress response), learning (impaired memory), and the regulation of behavior (the ability to execute adaptive vs maladaptive responses to stress).3, 39,57