Sentences with phrase «model animal control»

The SPCA will no longer offer old model animal control services but rather, means to take on an major role with municipalities not as a provider of services but as a partner.

See the model animal control bylaw provisions developed by CFHS as part of the National Companion Animal Coalition.

This goes hand - in - hand with the sample model animal control law and serves as a guide for those who wish to write their own legislation.

Not exact matches

Strategies that boost the cell's quality control programs, rather than disarm specific pathologic proteins, have looked promising in lab animals that serve as models for human neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia.

The potential strategy — which targets metabolic pathways that are active only during intestinal inflammation — prevented or reduced inflammation in a mouse model of colitis while exerting no obvious effect in control animals with healthy, balanced bacterial populations, said Dr. Sebastian Winter, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and co-corresponding author of the study published online today in Nature.

Unlike rodent models, which are developed from inbred strains of mice kept in controlled environments, companion animals, like humans, are genetically diverse and are exposed to many of the same environmental influences as their owners are.

«Since it's quite difficult to track microbial exposure on a daily basis, especially with humans — who move around a lot — we're exploring new animal models to see if we can ask the same questions we would about humans and get answers in more rigorous, controlled ways,» Gilbert said.

«For that we needed these very carefully constructed, well - controlled animal models.

Thus, our animal model might serve as an adequate framework for investigating impulse control disorders.»

They directly injected into the cerebrospinal fluid of a mouse model of Alzheimer's — adult animals in which plaques were well established — viral vectors carrying genes for one of the three APOE variants or a control protein.

They choose a model, the K / BxN serum transfer model, in which disease severity can be precisely controlled, which allowed them to test the hydrogel in animals with different degrees of arthritis severity.

«Although this is basic scientific research using animal models, these studies are shedding light on the molecular mechanisms that control male fertility, and are helping us to better understand the causes of many cases of infertility and enabling new horizons to be opened up in the development of therapeutic targets and strategies to combat it,» explained Dr Subirán.

In animal models, the modified T cells greatly reduced the tumor burden and prolonged overall survival: All mice that received the modified T cells were alive 44 days after treatment versus 29 percent and 17 percent of the study's two control groups.

After testing the system both in vitro and in vivo in an animal model, Scott's team demonstrated they could administer a subcutaneous injection that slowly delivered nanomaterials to cells in lymph nodes for over a month in a controlled fashion.

The nontoxic MRI probe was delivered intranasally to mouse models with Alzheimer's disease and control animals without the disease.

In animal models, maternal diet alters offspring body composition, accompanied by epigenetic changes in metabolic control genes.

My research combines the use of mathematical models and statistical methods to understand the transmission dynamics and control of a range of infectious diseases of humans and animals.

«This is the first study in a rigorously controlled animal model to find that CBD appears to protect the brain against the negative effects of chronic THC,» Mackie said.

Understanding cattle movement patterns as well as the connectivity of the various sectors of the U.S. cattle industry and incorporating these in the models would allow USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS) to develop more effective regulations and control strategies for various animal diseases, including boviAnimal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS) to develop more effective regulations and control strategies for various animal diseases, including bovianimal diseases, including bovine TB.

The major goal of the Animal Models and Cell Isolation Core will be to make available to members of NOAC tissue and cellular samples from control and ethanol - exposed animals.

It's been used to study automobile cruise control systems and population growth of certain animal species, and now researchers think Markov modeling could one day help a woman and her physician...

FOA encourages research grant applications from institutions / organizations that propose to develop, characterize or improve animal models for human disease or to improve diagnosis and control of diseases that might interfere with animal use for biomedical research purposes.

«This study provides proof - of - concept experiments, in large animal models, that a small, miniaturized device can be safely implanted in the brain and provide miniaturized control of the electrical activity and function of single neurons or small groups of neurons.

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Our goal in using this multifaceted model was two-fold 1) to confirm and further characterize the distinct behavioral traits in animals most susceptible to social stress after going through the 10 - day social defeat paradigm compared to undefeated control animals; 2) to provide pharmacological validation for this model using standard antidepressant medications such as fluoxetine and imipramine.

If they removed the sequence, dubbed CNS2, Tregs became unstable and often morphed into killer T cells — the type of cell they are supposed to be controlling — resulting in autoimmune disease in animal models.

Our findings first confirmed previous work with this model in demonstrating that compared to undefeated control animals, mice most susceptible to social defeat stress demonstrated a number of abnormalities in social avoidance, depression and anxiety as measured by routine test procedures.

There has been a growing body of literature using rodents as models of human obesity, even though there are many confounding factors including species, strain, age of the animals, type of diet, level of fat, and type of control diet.

Over the last ten years, Dr. Anderson has switched his research focus to the study of neural circuits that control emotional behaviors in animal models.

[15] AFF 1 vaccination preserved sufficient functionality to allow treated model PD mice to cling on for 19 s. Hindlimb engagement is by analogy a, particularly suggestive outcome for animal models of a disease of fine motor control impairment.

These studies will investigate the consequences of ApoF knockdown on cholesterol disposition in an animal model, quantify ApoF levels in human subjects and identify lipoprotein properties that cause ApoF to bind and subsequently inhibit cholesteryl ester transfer protein activity, and investigate the molecular mechanisms controlling ApoF gene expression.

One injection of EDP's lead drug candidate, SIA - II insulin has demonstrated tight glucose control for 140 + days in established diabetic animal models.

Compared with those of control animals, the hippocampi of the model mice had fewer gamma waves during sharp - wave ripples, but gamma waves during theta waves were unaffected.

Precise, graded addition of test compounds to your specified control diet allows evaluation of dose - response effects in your animal model.

Marc Claret, head of the Neuronal Metabolism Control Group at IDIBAPS, adds that «our results also suggest pathological implications of this animal model, since a diet rich in fats makes these mice more susceptible to developing diabetes.»

For example, transgenic mice lacking dopamine, a key brain chemical for motor control, provide an integral animal model for studying the changes in brain dynamics during the induction and recovery from an induced Parkinsonian state.

Allosteric modulation of the insulin receptor (IR) with monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) can enhance insulin sensitivity and restore glycemic control in animal models of T2D.

On this basis, a ketogenic diet has been proposed as a collateral therapeutic approach in this disease.95 Studies by Zhao et al. 96 revealed both histological and functional improvements in an animal model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis when a ketogenic diet was given compared with when given a control diet.

In obese animal models, central dopamine activity is reduced and is accompanied by elevated preference for highly palatable, energy dense foods compared to normal weight controls [18].

agreed, i hate to admit it, but nintendrones are looking at this game with bear goggles on, LOL but seriously, they could have improved the models allot, an also in this video, the animal artificial intelligence, seems very poor, also did they bother to map the camera controls onto the second analogue stick??

Many regard the Calgary model as the future of municipal animal services operations, but getting there for most American cities will require turning the existing animal control paradigm that presides in the U.S. on» its head.

Unlike the complaint - driven, shelter - centric model of most U.S. animal control agencies, Calgary favors a proactive community - relations and enforcement model.

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.

Showing local officials that people want a humane approach to animal control — and that TNR is the best way to stabilize community cat populations — can eventually lead them to officially embrace the new model.

Bill Bruce believes in getting out in front of the problem, and unlike the complaint driven, shelter centric model of most US animal control agencies, Calgary favors a proactive community relations / enforcement model.

Discounted rabies vaccines, special adoption events and community involvement fundraisers have done much to set Columbus County Animal Control on the path to becoming a model shelter.

Humane Canada has collaborated in producing guidelines for «enlightened» municipal bylaws, and in developing sample or model bylaws for the licensing and control of companion animals.

No Kill is a humane, sustainable, cost - effective model that allows open admission animal control shelters to save all healthy and treatable animals, upwards of 99 % of all animals entrusted to their care.

Nothing is perfect but I fully agree with more controlled and limited breeding of all cats and dogs by responsible, reputable breeders to reduce the overall population, spaying and neutering all other dogs and cats and expanding the foster program, and helping some groups to become a sanctuary themselves to help those animals that are harder to adopt have a quality place to stay (following in the footsteps of the Best Friends model) until they are adopted, other programs that train some of these dogs to be therapy dogs, search and rescue dogs, dogs to help the handicapped, police dogs, etc..

But promoting U.S. - style catch - and - kill street dog population control was a non-starter in heavily Buddhist Taiwan, especially since much of the U.S. had already moved away from the traditional catch - and - kill animal control model.