Sentences with phrase «model animal by»

Montreal, July 30, 2014 — The Association of Progressive Jurists (AJP) and the Montreal SPCA are announcing the publication of AJP's document which provides a critical analysis of traditional animal control by - laws and the publication of Montreal SPCA's model animal by - law.

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Two other hooded sweatshirts in the line, one that says «Survival Expert» and one covered in an animal - shape print, were modeled by white children.

It is currently playing out in the live animal export sector, where the demise of local processing opened the door for a live export sector, which in turn through its simple business model has compromised livestock welfare and alienated many consumers, reduced employment in Top End towns which once had abattoirs, and added risk to cattle business profitability by providing only one market outlet.

I was a little panicked because Julian loves to chew on those darn farm animals, but I checked our model number and it was not affected by the recall (which was for loose screws on the stall doors anyway, not lead paint).

Their dinosaurs and animal models are by far the best I have come across in my almost 10 years of being a parent.

You can help teach your child to be gentle by modeling the behavior yourself, by having your child role play with a doll or stuffed animal, and by helping your child to be aware that her movements and tone of voice are just as important as gentle touch.

In animal models, long - term fluoxetine administration blocks the oxytocin release induced by serotonergic drugs.14

Wooden model of naked prime minister with animal's head follows claims of dining club initiation in book by Lord Ashcroft

Initial studies conducted by Christine Radtke, new Professor for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at MedUni Vienna / Vienna General Hospital, have shown in an animal model that the threads have great potential for nerve and tissue repair.

«By studying how education changes the brain, we can find out how this uniquely human experience induces change in both brain structure and function — something we can not do with animal models.»

The Nutritional State - structured Model (NSM) by ecologist Justin Yeakel (UC Merced), biologist Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute), and physicist Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) incorporates body size and metabolic scaling into an extinction model where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resouModel (NSM) by ecologist Justin Yeakel (UC Merced), biologist Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute), and physicist Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) incorporates body size and metabolic scaling into an extinction model where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resoumodel where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resources.

New research from an international group led by Min Zhao, professor of ophthalmology and of dermatology at the University of California, Davis, shows that, in animal models of diabetes, slow healing is associated with weaker electrical currents in wounds.

The search for more of these factors is complicated by the rarity of brain samples from suicide victims and the lack of an animal model — humans are unique in their wilful ability to end their lives.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

«Autism's social deficits are reversed by an anti-cancer drug: Using an epigenetic mechanism, romidepsin restored gene expression and alleviated social deficits in animal models of autism.»

By studying human cancer cells and animal models of cancer in the lab, our researchers have shown that loss of PTEN leads to high levels of PI (3,4) P2, which could result in hyperactivation of AKT.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

p11 is increased in rodent brains by antidepressants or electroconvulsive therapy, but decreased in an animal model of depression and in brain tissue from depressed patients.

The study of these highly unusual but devastating prion diseases has to date been thwarted by a lack of animal models that faithfully mimic the disease processes in humans.

To find out what impact this might have on a flu epidemic, Earn and his colleagues turned to a 1982 study which showed that ferrets, a common animal model for human flu, produced more seasonal flu virus if their fevers were lowered either with painkillers or by having their fur shaved off.

And a dog genome sequence has made the animals an even more useful model by quickening the search for disease - causing genes.

A new study by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) found no evidence of increased aggressive behavior toward strangers in an animal model of the condition.

Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) have shown in a mouse model that the epigenetic * modification of the Igfbp2 ** gene observed in the young animal precedes a fatty liver in the adult animal later in life.

Qi concluded that the peptide reduced nerve cell impairment caused by Huntington's disease in the animal model.

In animal models, acupuncture appears to impact the same biologic pathways ramped up by pain and stress, analogous to what drugs do in humans.

As noted by Dr. Vicki Ellingrod — the Chair of this session, «Current state - of - the - art research in both animal models as well as humans point to the link between the gut microbiota and mood and anxiety models, as well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.»

A good model system for research is provided by Oesophagostomum dentatum, a roundworm which infects the large intestines of pigs, slowing the animals» growth and leading to significant economic losses.

The study took advantage of an important large animal model of SMA, the SMA piglet developed by the research group.

They were able to do so by building on an experiment showing that grafting a peripheral nerve into the space between a severed spinal cord in an animal model brought about nerve regeneration (albeit limited).

He and his colleagues are also attempting to make an animal model of stuttering by inserting the human mutation into mice.

A promising new avenue for treating hepatitis B has been reported by researchers at Hiroshima University who have developed a new animal model of the disease.

Having a genetically identical, reliable animal model meant the most when an animal's genetic blueprints, or genomes, were hard to come by.

In an animal model, they demonstrated for the first time that two proteins designed by the researchers not only recover muscle force and increase body weight in the sick animals but also significantly prolong survival.

Likewise, Michael Meaney, a McGill neurobiologist, had been talked into attending by the same colleague, who thought Meaney's research into animal models of maternal neglect might benefit from Szyf's perspective.

And by providing an animal model for the fetal damage, the studies should also ease the path for testing potential vaccines and treatments.

Rami Tzabar and Angela Saini of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) won the Gold Award for radio reporting by exploring how animal models of vocal communication may be useful in understanding how human language might have evolved.

Now, a trio of studies in the July issue of Nature Medicine opens new avenues for plaque research by presenting a new animal model for plaque formation, a diagnostic tool for spotting them, and a possible way to break them down.

Animal model testing is already underway, and Mikovits notes that her team is looking into some reverse transcriptase inhibitors that have already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for other uses.

A research team led by Timothy R. Nurkiewicz, Ph.D., associate professor in the WVU School of Medicine Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and researcher in the Center for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences, is finding inhalation of engineered nanomaterials negatively impacts gestational development in animal models.

A fourth study, led by Misty D. Smith, Ph.D. at the University of Utah (abstract 1.215), explores how CBD interacts with five different AEDs in animal models of seizure.

«We found that AIM2 inhibits tumorigenesis in multiple animal models of colorectal cancer by restricting the pro-survival signaling molecule, Akt, which is commonly hyperactive in many human cancers.»

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

Why the drug combination works in resistant CML Why such a combination of the two inhibitor types works in an animal model has now been explained by Prof. Stephan Grzesiek's team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and Dr. Wolfgang Jahnke from Novartis, by a structural analysis using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR).

The researchers hope these findings will aid in developing new treatments by using animal models that more closely represent the types of mutations apparent in the vast majority of patients with enchrondromas.

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

The research showed that moral decisions in the con?ned scope of unavoidable traffic collisions can be explained well, and modeled, by a single value - of - life for every human, animal, or inanimate object.

Granular resistive force theory, which considers the thrust provided by the body waves and the drag on the animals» bodies, helped model the locomotion and compare the energy efficiency of the limbless snake against that of the four - legged lizard — which doesn't use its legs to swim through the sand.

Using an animal model, the research team replicated cocaine addiction by allowing rats to self - administer as much cocaine as they wanted (up to 40 doses) during a six - hour period.

One intriguing development is a potential animal model for smallpox developed by virologist Peter Jahrling of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland, and his colleagues.

The size difference between tumor and healthy circulating DNA was initially discovered in animal tumor models created by inducing tumors with human cancer cells.