Sentences with phrase «new rat study»

In the new rat study, Nicolelis and his coworkers found a way to gather information from the brain of one rat and send it to the brain of another.

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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.

A new study in rats suggests that alcohol abuse in adolescents could lead to impaired decision - making in adulthood

Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.

«It's a fantastic and fascinating study, involving very well controlled experiments in both rats and humans, and they got such dramatic results,» says neuroscientist Liz Phelps of New York University, who was not involved in the work.

A new study finds that shining a low - power laser on damaged rat teeth activates molecular growth factors already present in the tissue.

Rats learn to navigate new spaces by replaying memories in reverse order, a study released in February suggests.

In a recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Michele Noonan, a University of Texas neuroscience graduate student in the lab of Amelia Eisch, shows that a lack of neurogenesis, or birth of new neurons, in the adult rat can actually cause drug addiction.

Through studies on rats and mice, he and his colleagues have come up with new findings that may be significant to the development of new treatment methods.

Previous research has tested how well radiation - exposed rats do with basic learning tasks and mazes, but this new Johns Hopkins study focused on tests that closely mimic the self - tests of fitness for duty currently used by astronauts on the International Space Station prior to mission - critical events such as space walks.

To conduct the new study, rats were first trained for the tests and then taken to Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in Upton, N.Y., where a collider produces the high - energy proton and heavy ion radiation particles that normally occur in space.

NEW ROLE A kind of brain cell called an astrocyte (shown) may help nerve cells in the hippocampus form traumatic memories, a study in rats suggests.

A previous study of rats in New York by investigators at CII found several of the same pathogens, including E. coli, Salmonella, and C. difficile.

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

Studying laboratory rats, Rutgers scientists found, however, that within a month after experimental brain injury, the number of new brain cells declined dramatically, below the numbers of new neurons that would have been detected if an injury had not occurred.

In a new study, Buzsáki and colleagues have been studying epilepsy in rats, specifically looking at interictal epileptic discharges (IEDs).

In the new paper in PLOS Biology, the team reports that the following year, SRF (which had changed its name in 1968 to the International Sugar Research Foundation, or ISRF) launched a rat study called Project 259 «to measure the nutritional effects of the [bacterial] organisms in the intestinal tract» when sucrose was consumed, compared to starch.

In the study, the new endomorphin drug produced longer pain relief without substantially slowing breathing in rats; a similarly potent dosage of morphine produced significant respiratory depression.

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.

In a series of studies beginning in 1994, neuroscientist Elizabeth Gould of Rockefeller University in New York City and her co-workers extended this picture, showing that stressed rats release adrenal hormones that suppress new nerve cell production in the braNew York City and her co-workers extended this picture, showing that stressed rats release adrenal hormones that suppress new nerve cell production in the branew nerve cell production in the brain.

In a previous study, Nesha Burghardt, then a graduate student at New York University, and her colleagues demonstrated that long - term SSRI treatment impairs fear conditioning in rats.

In past studies to develop a new animal model for the brain events that support motor development, neurophysiologist Martin Garwicz of Lund University in Sweden and his colleagues discovered that the schedules by which ferrets and rats acquire various motor skills, such as crawling and walking, are strikingly similar to each other; the progress simply happens faster for rats.

Boozing it up in adolescence contributes to risky behavior in adulthood, according to a new study with rats.

A study published in Cell last year demonstrated that human and rat stem cells could be grafted onto the spinal cord of paralyzed rats, forming new nerves capable of communicating across the injury site.

A new study conducted in rats offers clues about how teen drinking alters brain chemistry, suggesting early alcohol use has long - term effects on decision making.

In the new study, he and his colleagues set out to examine how rats learn to press levers to get sugar water — and where they store those motivational memories.

In the new study, researchers fed one group of rats a high - fat diet during pregnancy and lactation.

To conduct the new study, Panoz - Brown and Crystal developed a series of challenges in which rats were asked to recall up to 30 different scents — basil, strawberry and banana, among many others — to earn a treat.

A new study in rats, published April 2 in the Journal of Neuroscience, shows that long - term exposure to bursts of sweet, fatty foods produces animals that appear to seek food not out of hunger, but out of habit.

A new study by Indiana University researchers that appears online today in the journal Current Biology suggests that rats exhibit much stronger episodic memory than previously thought.

But this study goes beyond association, he notes, and actually gets at a cause, showing that specific frequencies cause rats to treat an object as new or old.

A new study in rats shows that lacing a penis graft with adult stem cells yields better healing and sexual function than using the graft alone.

The road to answering these questions may have a lot to do with specific genetic factors that vary from individual to individual, a new study in rats suggests.

Injections of a new drug may partially relieve paralyzing spinal cord injuries, based on indications from a study in rats, which was partly funded by the National Institutes of Health

Rats in the study, published in the March 3 Science, didn't find the new molecule as rewarding as fentanyl, so it may be less addictive.

In the new study, the scientists first trained all the rats to expect to find cocaine in certain places, to poke their nose into a hole to get a controlled dose of it, and to expect it would be available when a certain light was shining.

A new study shows that rats will, indeed, rescue their distressed pals from the drink — even when they're offered a chocolate treat instead.

«Because we had access to these rats that were bred for certain traits, and were able to control for environmental factors, such as the amount of drug exposure, we could assess differences in the brain both before and after the rats became addicted,» says Shelly Flagel, Ph.D., lead author of the new study and an assistant professor of psychiatry at U-M.

Their study, carried out in rats, sheds new light on pathological processes that could underlie disease progression in humans.

In the new study, Mogil told the researchers in his lab to inject an inflammatory agent into the foot of a rat or mouse and then take a seat nearby and read a book.

The new study, led by Walter Mothes, a Yale microbial pathogens expert, involved creating one culture that mixed healthy rat cells with cells infected by the murine leukemia virus, a cancerous pathogen in rats and monkeys that is not known to affect humans.

This new study, conducted in rats, identified the specific nerves that had to be blocked to achieve the therapy's blood pressure - lowering effects.

Acting like miniature trees that soak up sunlight and release oxygen, photosynthetic bacteria injected into the heart may lighten the damage from heart attacks, a new study in rats suggests.

The lack of gravity in space doesn't seem to affect certain aspects of root growth in the botanical equivalent of lab rats, a new study suggests.

But the authors of a new study on dying rats make a bold claim: After cardiac arrest, the rodents» brains enter a state similar to heightened consciousness in humans.

A new study finds that two chemicals found in fungicides and pesticides caused fertility defects in male rats that were passed down to nearly every male in subsequent generations — an effect not seen with any other known toxin.

Brace for another shot across the bow: Opioids like morphine have now been shown to paradoxically cause an increase in chronic pain in lab rats, findings that could have far - reaching implications for humans, says a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

Rat studies at the University of Auckland in New Zealand bolstered the findings: mothers who were undernourished during pregnancy gave rise to obese adults.

Brace for another shot across the bow: Opioids like morphine have now been shown to paradoxically cause an increase in chronic pain in lab rats, findings that could have far - reaching implications for humans, says a new study.

In the first study of its kind since the 1920s, rats in New York City were found to carry a flea species capable of transmitting plague pathogens.