Sentences with phrase «more animal studies»

Given this set of events, it has not been surprising to see more animal studies focusing on the ability of curcumin and turmeric to potentially improve chronic neurodegenerative problems including Alzheimer's disease.

ViewPoint Therapeutics, a biotech company he co-founded in San Francisco, California, holds the license to the technology and will launch more animal studies soon.

More animal studies would be needed to move this drug toward human clinical trials, but «what we hope is that we could use this drug to intervene in patients who have had an episode of prolonged seizures and give it to them briefly following that episode to protect them from becoming epileptic,» said James McNamara, M.D., a professor in the departments of neurobiology and neurology at Duke University.

Researchers note more animal studies are needed to determine whether the administration of IL - 27 can successfully treat severe illness from these viral infections.

Not exact matches

The study, conducted by Eli Lilly's (lly) Elanco Animal Health division at the request of the National Chicken Council, said that if one - third of U.S. broilers switched to slower growing breeds, that would mean 33.5 billion pounds more feed, 7.6 million acres / year more land, 28.5 billion pounds of manure, and 5.1 billion additional gallons of water.

Nonetheless, the media are awash with conflicting food studies, and confused consumers are eating more animal - based foods than ever before.

So, I'll do more studying, if anyone has any links they could give me it would much appreciated, it is just baffling to me to know that man was created around animals in the beginning how ever, was able to pull away from the animals and begin an intelligent form a language, I can sort of see creating things that they needed from need.

If they are not relevant, then mere behavior, as causally conditioned spatio - temporal changes and nothing more, is the only universal principle, and what we learn by studying animals adds nothing (beyond unusual complexity or subtlety) to our concept of reality in general.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

Nowadays the study of perceptual synthesis, of memory, of ideation, of insightful problem - solving and of the complexities of motivation in animals, has reached a point at which the exact opposite of Morgan's strategy often seems more promising.

Ganeden now has a wide stable of peer - reviewed published studies, and more than 120 patents for probiotic technologies in the food, beverage, animal health, sports nutrition and personal care ingredients markets.

A Technomic study on college foodservice shows some of the unique challenges today's operators face: 49 percent of college and university students avoid some type of meat or animal products; more students are price - sensitive off - campus (58 percent) than on - campus (46 percent) and 54 percent of students say it's important to eat healthy and pay attention to nutrition.

«The approval was given after the FDA supposedly reviewed more than 110 animal and human safety studies, but out of these 110 studies, only two were human studies, and the longest one was conducted for four days!»

Although more and more human studies are being conducted to validate claims found in animals, many studies are with patients with a certain illness or condition (ex.

To back this up, in another study, scientists tracked animals that exercised for two hours daily for more than five weeks.

It is a world of horses that run and jump in a green, rolling countryside, studied by members of a select coterie who are, more often than not, as elegant as the animals they follow.

The study was done after earlier research in animal studies showed that neurocognitive delays were more common among vitamin D deficient animals» offspring.

And animal studies suggest that the amygdala — the brain structure that tells us when we should be afraid — is more sensitive, or «trigger - happy,» in timid children (Fox et al 2005; Eliot 2000).

So the animal studies give us only a hint at how early experience can affect development — the way human babies are treated by caregivers has even more effects on them than for any other animal because they are born so immature.

He also stresses that, «Animal studies have linked the combination of stress and lack of sleep to behavioural problems in teenage years... and changes to the brain brought on by stress hormones may make it more difficult to form relationships later on, leading to problems such as promiscuity.»

Students tell me they think more clearly, study better and have way more energy since substituting the green smoothie for an unhealthy meal loaded with animal products and processed, packaged food.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Studies looking at food costs show that animal products cost more than double that of a serving of vegetables or legumes and 60 percent more than a serving of fruit; and animal products are not associated with decreasing chronic disease risk.

«NIH needs to stand up for the value of animal studies and allow its researchers to speak more clearly to the public about their work.

An animal study in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience finds that coffee after alcohol consumption might merely make the drinker feel more capable, which could lead to bad decision making.

Mitchell guesses that there will probably be 10 more years of rigorous testing in animals before moving on to human clinical studies.

Senior author Byungkook Lim, an assistant professor in the Neurobiology Section, said the results require much more study and evaluation to be applied to humans with depression, but the new research in animal models provides solid grounding.

In animal studies, the technique more effectively targeted melanoma than other immunotherapy treatments.

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 the new study suggests that, historically speaking, these animals are slower at expanding into more suitable habitats.

Using his new technique to study wild animals, Amos has found that inbreeding could be more important in determining an individual's chances of survival than random factors such as environmental change.

Even more important, this seminal work opens the road for comparative neuroimaging studies in which humans and other animals perform similar tasks using similar methodologies, and the results can be analyzed using similar strategies.

According to Rakison, the study shows that girls, more than boys, have a deep - rooted ability to learn to fear dangerous animals.

«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

In addition, he believes that modern imaging provides a bridge between human cognitive neuroscience and animal studies, allowing more inferences from one to the other.

Most studies have concluded that sea animals with calcified shells or skeletons, such as starfish, will suffer as carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels dissolves in the sea, making the water more acidic and destroying the calcium carbonate on which the creatures depend.

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

Our animal ancestors used their noses way more than we do in modern society, says Jessica Freiherr, a neuroscientist at RWTH Aachen University, in Germany, and the author of several studies on human olfaction.

Instead, we have to get past visual observation and study more carefully how animals live.

«By providing support for these research studies, we hope to generate more definitive answers about how human - animal interaction affects health,» he said.

Hanna Granroth - Wilding, who led the study, said: «Our knowledge of disease in wild animals has tended to focus on the individual, but our study shows that we need to pay more attention to the broader consequences of disease to fully appreciate the role that it plays in wild populations, especially those whose numbers may be under threat.»

The history of evolutionary studies has been dogged by the intuitively attractive, almost irresistible idea that the whole great process leads to greater complexity, to animals that are more advanced than their predecessors.

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

It's difficult to pinpoint how many land animals are killed by vehicular traffic annually — no single entity keeps track — but over a 17 - month period, one study documented more than 8,000 fatalities along a 1.1 - mile stretch of road in Indiana.

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.

Researchers who conduct animal studies often don't use simple safeguards against biases that have become standard in human clinical trials — or at least they don't report doing so in their scientific papers, making it impossible for readers to ascertain the quality of the work, an analysis of more than 2500 journal articles shows.

Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter, UK, who led the study, says the findings echo those in animals, which are also more likely to produce boys during times of plenty, whereas female mice with low blood sugar also seem more prone to producing girls.

«The rising level of integrons after 1990 in manured soil could indicate that through our efforts to reduce antibiotic resistance, we have unintentionally increased resistance gene exchange and more study is needed on the use of animal manure,» says Prof Graham from Newcastle University.

Nicky Clayton at the University of Cambridge, UK, says the study shows that young chicks are capable of abstract relational thought: «The fact that young chicks can do this suggests this ability is more widespread across the animal kingdom than previously thought, and emerges earlier in development than expected.»

«Animal studies have found that males have more of the receptors that cannabis works on in parts of the brain important in short term memory, such as the prefrontal cortex.