Sentences with phrase «more rat study»

Really, does the world need one more rat study with a diet no real person would ever (I hope) eat?

Not exact matches

A new study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program, found that rats consistently exposed to radiofrequency radiation from cellphones were more likely to develop malignant tumors in the brain and heart.

I have been more interested in the empathic responses of the students than in the behavior of the rats in these studies.

A 2010 study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research found that blueberry - fed rats had significantly more bone mass than rats whose diet was not supplemented with the berries.

A study cited in a NY Times article states that McGill University neurologist, Michael Meaney, discovered that his rats who licked and groomed their babies frequently, produced rats who figured out mazes more quickly than the rats whose mothers were less attentive.

The rat study found that baby rats showed anxiety and gained more weight when exposed to the chemical Firemaster 550.

Granted this study was done on rats by Anderson Laboratories, but the more I researched, the more concerns revealed themselves.

ANTI-CIO # 4: In a study performed on rats, rat mothers who were nurturing towards their rat babies (i.e. licked their babies often) produced more growth hormones and changed the chemistry of the DNA in certain genes involved in the offspring's stress response.

In later decades, other scientists got much more rigorous in their study of fear, in many cases turning to rats rather than people as their test subjects.

Different types of studies use different stand - ins: Flies for genetics; zebrafish for early development; rats and mice and monkeys for cancer, neuroscience and more.

The US National Toxicology Program last week released some results from a two - year study in which more than 1000 rats were exposed to differing levels of cellphone radiation for 9 hours a day, for the whole of their lives.

Studies in the 1960s and 1970s showed that rats and humans who can't predict a negative effect (such as a small shock) end up more frazzled than those who can predict when a zap is coming.

In a new study, he has found that the rats» offspring were inheriting more than just testis troubles.

Most animal studies of the disease are conducted with laboratory mice that have been genetically engineered and bred to model ALS, but for this research, investigators used rats with ALS because they more accurately portray the disease's variable course in humans.

Thousands of blind mole - rats have been captured and studied for more than 50 years at Israel's University of Haifa, where the animal work was conducted.

«We observed that rats will press a lever more often to get a single infusion of MPDV than they will for meth, across a fairly wide dose range,» said TSRI Associate Professor Michael A. Taffe, who was the principal investigator of the study.

To examine this link more closely, Swartzwelder and colleagues studied the sedative effects of alcohol by injecting the equivalent of about 20 drinks of alcohol into adolescent and adult rats of both genders and throughout the females» estrous cycle.

In the new study, Dangl and colleagues delved more deeply into this relationship, using mutant versions of Arabidopsis thaliana, a weed that has long been the standard «lab rat» of plant biology research.

The study found, through tests in rats, that a meal rich in saturated fat, reduces a person's cognitive function that make it more difficult to control eating habits.

Originally, Silverman and Baumann planned to use only male rats in their pilot studies because the cost of including both sexes would be substantial; housing and feeding a single adult rat runs to more than a dollar a day.

In 2008, the studies led to the finding that naked mole rats didn't feel pain when they came into contact with acid and didn't get more sensitive to heat or touch when injured, like we and other mammals do.

Automated technology used by many labs makes it easier to simply track a rat as it runs through a maze — a test of location - based memory — as opposed to studying more - sophisticated forms of memory.

In a Purdue University study, rats drinking liquids with artificial sweeteners consumed more calories overall than rats whose drinks were sweetened with sugar.

In a 2014 study in rats, researchers at the University of California found that the neurons in a brain region associated with spatial learning behaved completely differently in virtual environments compared to in real ones, with more than half of the neurons shutting down while in VR.

The US National Toxicology Program last week published the partial results of a two - year study, in which more than 1000 rats were exposed to differing levels of cellphone radiation for nine hours every day, for the whole of their lives.

The team also found that a low dose of THC did not disrupt the reproductive cycle in female rats, something that has been under debate and, Craft said, needs more study.

Prior studies show that exposure to both cues and stress can have an additive effect on the propensity to cause craving and relapse in both people and in rats, and that females trained to respond for cocaine may be more sensitive to this effect.

More than a decade ago microelectrode studies of rats and monkeys revealed place cells that respond when the animals move to a particular spot in a maze.

«We've known since Lashley's classic studies on the mechanisms of vision that rats pay more attention to stimuli presented near the ground, but the field has persisted in presenting vertical 2 - D images or 3 - D objects,» Burwell said.

Pigeons and rats, for example, are known to orient themselves using odor maps, or «smellscapes,» but sighted humans rely more heavily on visual landmarks, and so the study turned up some surprising results.

«Experimental orthotopic transplantation of a tissue - engineered oesophagus in rats» describes transplanting an esophagus into rats that was seeded with their own stem cells, and notes that all animals survived the study period (14 days), and gained more weight than rats given a placebo operation.

For example, studies have shown that young, inactive rats have reduced insulin sensitivity (a precursor to type - 2 diabetes), eat more and burn off fewer calories, and develop larger fat pads than animals who continue to exercise.

A byproduct of the fermentation process in making beer and wine is more effective in combating seizures associated with exposure to a nerve agent than currently recommended treatments, say US authors in a study using rats.

I looked each video (very well made) and also realize they use broader simpler but still concise enough terminology, that»S really great to increase reach and be more «approachable» because sometimes regular everyday people on the street don't know all or have heard the mumbo jumbo jargon in biogerontology (they will think you are a pompous alien nerd - stuck up who thinks he knows more because he was like a lab rat in his lab books studying aging; on top of that they will more Resentful towards you for Daring to Question their Life beliefs on Life and Death by your» 2 - cents worth knowledge (couldn't give a f...)»

The POMC gene in mice and rats, which are more commonly used to study obesity, isn't as similar to our own as dogs» POMC.

Specifically, a Swedish study on rats that received THC during adolescence found that these rats consumed a larger dose of heroin as adults, indicating a blunting effect (i.e. they needed more of it to feel the rewarding effects).

When you're testing on lots of subjects — and it might benefit to study more than one generation at a time — it's hard to beat a mouse or rat.

Up until now, clinical studies have been using rats as subjects, but more recently some intensive independent research was done on humans as well.

A 2008 study found that rats fed a diet of yoghurt mixed with artificial sweetener saccharin actually gained more weight than rats given the same amount of yoghurt mixed with glucose.

The most well - known is a 2012 study originally published in Food and Chemical Toxicology that suggested that rats fed GMO corn were more likely to develop tumors, but it was later retracted because that breed of rat is prone to tumors.

In fact, a study looking at diabetic rats given cumin extract revealed that cumin was more effective at reducing blood glucose and AGE production than glibenclamide, an anti-diabetic drug.

We know that the lemony aura of limonene is more than just a scent, as it can be found in our blood after exposure.8 Furthermore, several anticancer cellular pathways appear to be affected by the terpene limonene, leading some to suggest it has anticancer, or chemopreventative, benefits.9 While feeding it to rats in studies has revealed some efficacy against breast tumors, 10 we have a ways to go before we can make such bold claims in humans.

Some forms of exercise may be much more effective than others at bulking up the brain, according to a remarkable new study in rats.

In another study, rats who fasted every other day were nearly 66 percent more likely to survive a heart attack than those on a normal diet.»

In a 2010 Princeton University study, researchers found that rats given water sweetened with HFCS gained significantly more weight than those given water sweetened with plain sugar, despite calorie intake being the same between both groups.

this is a large scale population study with incredible health data comparing rural (vegan) vs. urban Chinese, duplicated in rats, much more compelling than just analyzing Bill Clinton, who I have heard did not stick to a vegan diet until recently after his last scare.

A study on rats found that a combination of ginger and turmeric was more effective than a standard anti-inflammatory drug at treating the impairment of kidney functions (5).

High bacon rats have low incidence of polyps versus other meats; calorie restricted high protein have slower aging, more muscle, and more strength, but in other studies low protein have slower aging.

Could we possibly funnel all this rat - study funding to a more worth while study?

We discussed how rutin was compared to quercetin in a study on rats, and found to be strongly anti-inflammatory, even more so than quercetin, which is one of the best researched antioxidants of all.