Sentences with phrase «not good animal models»

Critics charge that rabbits are not good animal models for human brain diseases and note that the dialysis patients suffered from dialysis encephalopathy, or «dialysis dementia,» not Alzheimer's disease.

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The animals engage in more natural play behavior, Carlos says, and are better models for psychiatric disorders because they're not unnaturally depressed or anxious.

Herzberg said his stories dealt «with obviousness that is not obvious... the stethoscope as the eternal symbol of doctors, mice as our best animal model, eels as simple, almost boring, river fishes.

«There hasn't been a good animal model for any kind of speech disorder,» says study author Wan - chun Liu, a senior research associate in Fernando Nottebohn's Laboratory of Animal Behanimal model for any kind of speech disorder,» says study author Wan - chun Liu, a senior research associate in Fernando Nottebohn's Laboratory of Animal BehAnimal Behavior.

«There's a growing demand, as animal models aren't mirroring the diseases too well,» says David Dexter, director of the bank.

Wild H5N1 viruses can not latch on tothe cells in a person's nose and throat, but the mutant strains created by Fouchier and Kawaoka can spread between ferrets, which are viewed as a good animal model of flu transmission between humans.

Early treatments in animal models in vivo with hotter lasers didn't work as well.

The BUSM researchers believe the data from this study and those reported by others in animal models as well in clinical studies strongly suggest that Avodart may have serious adverse side effects that were not obvious several years ago.

The loss was bad for the vaccine: In a series of experiments Hensley and his colleagues showed antibodies from humans and ferrets (a good animal model for influenza A studies) that had been exposed to the egg - grown vaccine did not effectively kill the circulating sugar - adorned viruses.

Though the scientists don't know if such individual and pack behavior is a common occurrence, observations like these on Isle Royale provide insight into how animal societies function as well as the vicissitudes of the food chain cycle on Isle Royale, also helping to inform other models of the natural world.

«Because plants make their decisions based on physiological processes and are not distracted from the best course of action by subjective thought, they could even be better models than animals and people,» says Bernhard Schmid from the University of Zurich.

The idea is the relationship between stress and performance follows a Goldilocks model: Both people and animals function best when the level of stress is not too much, nor too little, but just right.

Yet systematic reviews tell us conclusively that animal models do not translate well to human mental health.

«This is quite good and convincing work that confirms host defense activity of amyloid - β against fungal and bacterial infections in animal models, and begins to unravel the mechanisms of antimicrobial activity of the protein,» said Kevan Hartshorn who studies innate immunity at the Boston University School of Medicine and was not involved in the study.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

To take a finding in basic research, such as identifying a mutant protein that drives a particular cancer, and develop a drug that inactivates the protein and performs well in cells in the lab and in animal models can take years, if not decades.

For large animals, like hippo and buffalo, their sensitivity to change — especially with predictions of more frequent and prolonged drought — means they don't do well in any of the future scenarios modelled by the park's scientific teams.

Animals don't always make the best photography models, as evidenced by the new holiday - themed teaser for «The Secret Life of Pets.»

The nationâ $ ™ s animal welfare organizations are not promoting the only effective model at ending the killing of savable animals in shelters There are some like Alley Cat Allies and Best Friends, which agree with all the programs, but only the No Kill Advocacy Center is promoting it nationally as the key to ending the systematic killing of five million dogs and cats in U.S. shelters every year.

Not only is he an actor, Spokesdog for Animal Advocacy, Bocker is also a certified therapy dog who is also well known for his numerous tv commercial cameos and modeling and just recently has become an Author ~ the book Chasing Bocker's Tale.