Sentences with phrase «model animals»

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.

One 2014 study based on modeling animal movement found that increasing vehicle density on existing roads, rather than adding more roads with lower density, resulted in fewer wildlife fatalities.

Here we have shown puzzles, a stacking toy, nesting dolls, a CD player, small drum and barn with model animals.

Using various model animals, the researchers hope to anticipate how wildlife will react as the climate changes and develop strategies to reduce any harm.

With an expanding understanding of the genes that control body pattern in model animals, it is now possible to investigate the genetic basis of morphological diversity in related animals.

Reports of supercentenarians — people such as Calment who live to older than 110 — together with observations of model animals whose lifespans can be extended through genetic or dietary modifications, have prompted some to suggest that there is no upper limit on human lifespan.

Summary: A two day meeting to review current IMPC progress including sign off on new phenotyping protocols Attended by: IMPC members, China based researchers Hosted by: Model Animal Research Center (MARC) at Nanjing University

Marmosets exhibit complex social behaviors and their DNA can be genetically manipulated, which makes them an important model animal for brain researchers.

An Unsustainable Rescue - Only Model The animal welfare lobby has done such a bang - up job spreading the message that the number of animals entering shelters has dropped from about 10 to 6 percent annually, said Sayres, who spent decades as an animal welfare advocate before joining PIJAC in 2014.

One of the lessons of this research is that we have a new model animal to study mechanisms of disease, and possibly discover new therapeutic agents.»

The abscesses contained Gram - negative bacteria, and when similar bacterial infections were deliberately induced in the CCM model animals, about half of them developed significant CCMs.

It's not clear what would happen to the rest of NCRR's portfolio, which includes support for construction and instrumentation, primate centers and other model animal resources, and grants for minority institutions and states that don't have much NIH funding.

Studies in typical model animals — mice — are rarely illuminating, because the rodents often still behave normally when researchers manipulate genes that should cause these disorders.

«Mice mirror, to a certain extent, what happens in humans,» he says, but they are not perfect model animals.

Your floor - model animal mitochondrion.

Diet - Induced Metabolic Syndrome in Rodent Models Animal Lab News - March 2007 Angela M. Gajda, MS, Michael A. Pellizzon, Ph.D., Matthew R. Ricci, Ph.D. and Edward A. Ulman, Ph.D..

Josselyn Siegel visited the League's offices last week to share some of her Custom Clay Creations, handmade model animals sculpted from modeling clay.

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.

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.

Model Animal Control Law by National Animal Interest Alliance.

The most promising active ingredients were then tested on model animals: ursolic acid, a waxy natural chemical found in apple peels and rosemary; curcumin, the bright yellow plant compound in turmeric; and resveratrol, a natural compound common to red grapes or berries.

My niece has been showing me her collection of model ANIMALS.

Former Buck postdoctoral fellow Di Chen, PhD, now an associate professor at the Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, China, lead author of the study, said that the positive feedback loop (DAF - 16 via the AMPK complex) originated in the germline tissue of worms.

The researchers studied the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a model animal for learning about the brain and its communication channels.

C.elegans has been used for decades as a model animal to study the genetic and molecular underpinnings of neurological disorders through a number of techniques including bio imaging, electrophysiology and behavior.

But overall, the resulting toxicity of the wastewater due to its silver content was negligible to zebrafish embryos — a model animal used in toxicity studies.

The study, by a team from the Francis Crick Institute, the University of California, Irvine and the Yale University School of Medicine, was carried out in Xenopus frogs, a commonly used model animal in biology.

Godwin holds a dual appointment with The Jackson Laboratory, also located in Bar Harbor, which is focused on the mouse as a model animal.

The group has further proved that administering growth hormone alleviated the NASH conditions caused by adult growth hormone deficiency, and treatments of GH and IGF - I were effective when applied to model animals with growth hormone deficiency.

However, they are now being harnessed for genetic engineering in several species, most notably in human cell lines and the model animals mouse (Mus musculus) and zebrafish (Danio rerio).

June 18, 2013 Maddie's Fund today announced that Dr. Sheila D'Arpino will direct Maddie's Animal Care Center, a model animal shelter and educational center slated to open next year in Pleasanton, CA.

Maddie's Fund ® today announced that Dr. Sheila D'Arpino will direct Maddie's ® Animal Care Center, a model animal shelter and educational center slated to open next year in Pleasanton, CA.

We are progressing to our goal of being a model animal welfare organization with a top - notch facility that offers progressive humane programs, which is a notable transformation in animal welfare from where AVHS began in 1991...

Buying toys that model animals, toys that look like balls, or toys that look completely random and weird are perfect.

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

ALDF's Model Animal Protection Laws include definitions of terms, general prohibitions, defenses, pre - and post-conviction provisions, and other provisions.

Other states could easily adopt similar laws, using ALDF's Model Animal Protection Laws Collection, which includes statutory language for civil injunctive relief for criminal violations.