Sentences with word «locomotor»

Sensitization of Locomotor Activity in the mouse as a Potential Indicator of Abuse Liability B.J. CALDARONE, C.M. RUIZ, M.L. MANZANO, A.C. FEDOLAK, J. ZHOU, B. OLIVIER... Abstracts / Posters

To entrain rhythms of locomotor activity, 5dpf larvae were exposed to 3 hours of light, after which they were monitored under dim light conditions.

Notably, the mutant mice also showed periodic changes in locomotor activity in their home cages with an approximate cycle length of 10 - 20 days.

This study will assess the immediate effects of locomotor training with the SAFE Orthosis in three ambulatory stroke participants and three age - matched healthy controls.

Social access to other horses is most important in reducing locomotor stereotypies, and keeping horses in a herd setting on pasture is the best treatment (and prevention).

Researchers found that rasagiline restored locomotor function in 6 - OHDA - treated zebrafish.

Walking — one of the biggest physical development milestones of all for young children — is the first locomotor skill.

In his graduate studies, Tim used two - photon calcium imaging to study the neural circuits mediating locomotor behavior.

The researchers explain this: with long - lasting high exposure to triglycerides, mice always display lower locomotor activity.

Harkema and her team first worked with Summers on locomotor training, without electrical stimulation.

The analysis thus far suggests that Bolt's mechanics may vary between his left leg to his right, said Andrew Udofa, a biomechanics researcher in the SMU Locomotor Performance Laboratory.

The circuit extends from the master pacemaker cells called s - LNvs (red), through other cells called DN1s (orange), and on to different types of pars intercerebralis cells (blue), which modulate locomotor rhythms through the release of the molecule DH44.

The novel triple reuptake inhibitor JZAD - IV - 22 exhibits an antidepressant pharmacological profile without locomotor stimulant or sensitization properties.

Dr. Spradley is an active member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners, American Veterinary Medical Association, Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association, and International Society of Equine Locomotor Pathology, an organization of equine veterinarians who practice the highest standard of equine sports medicine and diagnostic imaging through advanced education and certification programs.

Knockdown of both dec1 and per2 genes resulted in a noticeably disrupted circadian locomotor activity pattern.

Minocycline also restored locomotor function, but did not have the restorative effect in the brain.

Graphs show the average number of mistakes per experimental group made during Grid walk testing of locomotor recovery at 1 day before injury to 28 days after injury.

«We hope that this technology would compensate for the interrupted pathways» function by sending an intentionally encoded command to the preserved spinal locomotor center and regain volitionally - controlled walking in indviduals with paraplegia.

The same tests were also administered following several months of spinal stimulation applied in conjunction with locomotor training.

«Two of the four subjects were diagnosed as motor and sensory complete injured with no chance of recovery at all,» Claudia Angeli, Ph.D., senior researcher, Human Locomotor Research Center at Frazier Rehab Institute, and assistant professor, University of Louisville's Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center (KSCIRC) and lead author.

A novel 3D method of locomotor analysis in adult zebrafish: Implications for automated detection of CNS drug - evoked phenotypes, Journal of Neuroscience Methods 255 (30), 66 - 74.

Gross motor skills are bigger locomotor movements such as rolling, kicking, hitting, and walking.

Gait disturbance in individuals with spinal cord injury is attributed to the interruption of neural pathways from brain to the spinal locomotor center, whereas neural circuits locate below and above the lesion maintain most of their functions.

The SMU Locomotor Lab, led by Peter Weyand, focuses on the mechanical basis of human performance.

This fossil expands the range of known locomotor adaptations in docodontans to include climbing, in addition to digging and swimming.

These results support the idea that hippocampal pCREB levels may modulate locomotor activity.

We also thank participating zoos for supporting locomotor recording, and the curators of the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History for access to the specimens in their care.

One Canadian study found that dogs who were fed a diet containing high levels of omega - 3 fatty acids from fish showed significant improvement in locomotor disability problems and daily performance.

In particular, their heart and locomotor muscles contain more blood vessels.

The researchers were able to show that activation of mTORC1 in the liver of mice reduces not only hepatic lipid metabolism but also locomotor activity and body temperature.

This image shows a model of the circadian output circuit for locomotor rhythms.

They have spatial learning and memory defects as assessed in the Morris water maze and the radial arm maze, show developmental delay in sensorimotor milestones, and exhibit locomotor hyperactivity, lack of behavioral inhibition, and stereotypic behavior.

The Kessler NRN site is one of 6 centers in the Reeve Foundation's NeuroRecovery Network researching intensive locomotor training in SCI.

For example, in a science classroom you might see students choreographing a dance using locomotor and nonlocomotor movements to demonstrate their understanding of rotation versus revolution of the planets (PDF).

In this one experiment, chronic supplementation of L - tyrosine decreased locomotor activity of the Roborovskii hamsters in the home cage (Hodgkins et al. 2012).

In walking and the other locomotor skills that follow it, the feet move the body from one place to another.

CLOCK is an acronym for «Circadian Locomotor Output Cycles Kaput,» because it is a central regulator of gene expression related to the body's circadian rhythm of sleeping and waking.

Schirmer and her team found other major differences between the fish tests and the patterns observed in mammals: while cocaine has a stimulatory action and causes hyperactivity in mammals, it suppresses locomotor activity in zebrafish.

The researchers call the new measure «locomotor inactivity during sleep» (LIDS).

Rapamycin treatment four hours after spinal cord injury significantly improved locomotor function and reduced mechanical and thermal hypersensitivity in the hindpaws.

In their previous work, investigators at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan found that rapamycin treatment can reduce nerve damage and locomotor impairment after spinal cord injury.

By painstakingly reassembling partially crumbled or smashed specimens, analyzing tooth enamel to determine diet and habitat, and peering inside skeletal bone using powerful high - resolution micro-CT scans (like medical CT scans but with much higher radiation than could ever be used on a patient), the researchers have uncovered what White calls «a complex locomotor hybrid, a creature the likes of which had never been seen.»

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, along with an international team of collaborators, have recently discovered multiple assemblages of Homo erectus footprints in northern Kenya that provide unique opportunities to understand locomotor patterns and group structure through a form of data that directly records these dynamic behaviours.

«This new locomotor behavior could have been part of an arms race with monkeys for fruit resources, with a later increase in body size being another step in this race,» Grabowski explains.