Sentences with phrase «of field mice»

He remembers Stillman uncovering a family of field mice who'd claimed one of the big sofas in the sitting room.

Underneath the front clamshell, the engine appears to have served as a warm and dry home for a family of field mice.

Training a dog to track consists of teaching them to persistently follow the track we want them to follow and not the track of a field mouse, rabbit, or another scent that catches their interest.

Not exact matches

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How do field mice sever blades of grass?

... wasn't that a more competitive game than the game's west ham fielded their 2nd string player's in the europa qualifies, which they got knocked out of by some mickey mouse team?

The rest of the field played tentatively, for two days anyway, thinking the USGA was playing cat - and - mouse with them.

Released for Easter 2016, this Best Bottom shows a collection of bouncy bunnies and mice playing in fields of pastel blues and greens with matching trim, snaps, and inner.

Enjoy a 180 degree field of view and breathe through both mouse and nose!

In the new work, published June 10 in the journal Scientific Reports, Zhao, Reid and colleagues used a highly sensitive probe to measure electrical fields in the corneas of isolated eyes from three different lab mouse models with different types of diabetes: genetic, drug - induced and in mice fed a high - fat diet.

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

In a separate experiment in anesthetized mice, the scientists «steered» the target area of the TI, without moving the electrodes on the animals» scalps, by altering the relative amount of current in each of the two high - frequency fields.

Using «freshman physics,» neuroscientists have deployed electric fields to stimulate neurons buried deep in the brains of mice — a method that could one day lead to noninvasive therapies for people with Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders.

SNCA mice displayed an early and significant decrease in anxiety - like behavior that persisted throughout their lifespan, as shown by both open field and elevated plus maze tests (in which mice have the choice of spending time in open or closed arms of a maze).

Kilian said his team's synthetic microenvironment lies somewhere in the middle of two extremes in the field of modeling biology: the hard plastic plate, and expensive mouse avatars that are created by injecting human tumor cells into mice.

«It goes without saying that [they] really transformed the field in the mouse,» says Amander Clark, a fertility expert at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The method, now part of the field known as optogenetics, made it possible to control brain cells in mice with laser light.

So Thomas Cucchi, an archaeologist at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, decided to turn to the creatures living alongside humans at the time, specifically house mice (Mus domesticus), which live almost exclusively in or near houses and planted fields.

A combination of iron - oxide nanoparticles and an alternating magnetic field, which together generate heat, have activated an immune system response to tumors in mice according to an accepted manuscript by Dartmouth - Hitchcock Norris Cotton Center researchers in the journal Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine released online on February 24, 2014.

Using gene therapy to insert the gene, they expressed the synthetic gene in adult mice or in zebrafish embryos, and witnessed remote activation of neurons the presence of a magnetic field through the altered behavior of the animals.

There is a new contender in the field of gene discovery, and it's giving knockout mice a run for their money.

Normally, when you put a mouse into an open field, it walks along the edge of the field, where the walls are — the mouse is in an enclosed chamber with walls around it — because it's afraid of being attacked by an intruder, and it makes occasional dashes into the center to make sure it's not missing some food or an interesting sexual partner.

But many in the field will be waiting for the next steps: testing whether the resulting mouse pups are genetically normal, trying out the technique in other animals, and using other and less controversial types of cells — such as stem cells that can be extracted and cryopreserved from adult testicular tissue — as the starting point.

To determine whether shifts in the balance of anterior and posterior field occurred during fin - to - limb evolution, Onimaru, postdoctoral researcher currently at Sharpe's lab (CRG), and his colleagues carefully compared the expression, function and regulation of genes involved in anterior - posterior patterning in pectoral fins of catsharks, with those of mice.

Carlton devised a way of rapidly developing experimental mouse models, a staple of the translational field, to understand the function of novel genes.

Thus, the team examined the fin development of catsharks, and revealed that there was a shift in the balance of anterior (thumb side) and posterior (pinky side) fields in their fin buds compared to that in mouse limb buds.

Because the mouse and human brains have much in common, co-lead study investigator William Muñoz, an MD - PhD student at NYU Langone, says the team's findings advance the field's understanding of how the brain processes touch, smell, hearing, sight, and taste.

The loss of mGluR5 or p11 appeared to dampen the GABA neurons» signaling, as shown by the mice's increased willingness to pick up food pellets from an open field — a proxy measure for resilience from depression and anxiety.

The mouse lemur — the world's smallest primate — has the potential to transform the field of genetics and serve as an ideal model for a wide range of primate biology, behavior and medicine, including cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers say.

«The regenerative healing response of the spiny mouse is truly remarkable and Dr. Seifert's new work provides clear evidence that regenerative capabilities have evolved among rodents,» said Ken Muneoka, professor at Texas A&M University and a pioneer in the field of regeneration.

Using gene therapy to insert the gene, they expressed the synthetic gene in adult mice or in zebrafish embryos, and witnessed remote activation of neurons in the presence of a magnetic field through the altered behavior of the animals.

Because the mouse and human brains have much in common, co-lead study investigator William Muñoz, an MD / PhD student at NYU Langone, says the team's findings advance the field's understanding of how the brain processes touch, smell, hearing, sight, and taste.

For each individual mouse adipose depot, four different high - power fields from each of four different sections were analyzed.

This call aims to create and caracterise consitutive (Ko) and conditional Knock - Out (cKO), Knock - In (KI) and transgenic (TG) mouse models in the field of rare diseases.

The INFRAFRONTIER mission: ◊ to shape the European Research Area in the field of mouse functional genomics and thereby make an important contribution to the study of human disease.

The committee is composed of experts in the field of mouse genetics.

The Cre / lox system is a well - established research tool, especially in the field of mouse transgenics.

Use of a platform in an automated open - field to enhance assessment of anxiety - like behaviors in mice.

At the workshop an extraordinary group of experts in the cryopreservation field brainstormed and discussed in depth the latest technological advances in cryopreservation, including sperm and embryo cryopreservation, updated in vitro fertilization (IVF) methods and related techniques as ovary cryopreservation, laser - assisted and piezo - driven intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), transportation of frozen material and other technical and logistic challenges relevant to the operation of current mouse embryo / sperm archives.

The George lab has made seminal contributions to the field including: discovering a novel population of neurons in the brain of humans, rats and mice that are involved in nicotine dependence, identifying neuronal ensembles responsible for nicotine and alcohol addiction, and unveiled the cellular and molecular changes associates with long term use of nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine and alcohol use on the brain.

Being a spin - off company of a research institute (BSRC «Alexander Fleming») and having in our portfolio transgenic mouse models that have been products of several years» research activities shedding light in the mechanisms of the pathophysiology of human rheumatoid arthritis, we are passionately involved in a variety of Research and Development activities that aim to lead to innovative approaches in our field.

Professor Austin Smith has expertise in the field of mouse developmental biology and has pioneered key advances in the field of Embryonic Stem Cell research.

Behaviorally, the mice with 110 CAG repeats showed a sharp decline in both rotarod and open field performance from around 4 weeks of age whereas the 240 CAG repeat mice displayed a 2 - 3 week delay in the onset of behavioral decline with a much slower progression of decline in both tasks as compared to 110 CAG repeat counterparts.

The researchers tested out their device on a mouse model and found that the electrodes can record action and local field potentials of neurons with high signal - to - noise ratio.

To begin exploring these questions, we evaluated the effects of infection with two previously uninvestigated isolates from the three major North American clonal lineages of T. gondii, Type III and an attenuated strain of Type I. Using an hour - long open field activity assay optimized for this purpose, we measured mouse aversion toward predator and non-predator urines.

To this end, she developed a system of wireless deep brain stimulation that harnesses the ability of a magnetic field to elicit the firing of brain cells in mice.

UC Davis researchers used eyes from mice with diabetes to look at the role of electric fields in wound healing.

Disease progression was compared in three knockin mouse lines with similar CAG repeat expansion lengths of approximately 190 repeats, were compared at 2, 4, 6 and 10 months of age utilizing PsychoGenics proprietary cubes platform technologies: PhenoCube ®, Smart Cube ® and Neurocube ® as well as standard behavioral testing paradigms including Open Field and Tapered Balance Beam.

This call for proposals aims to establish and characterize mouse models: conditional Knock - Out (cKO), Knock - In (KI) and transgenic (TG) in the field of rare diseases.

PHENOMIN - CIPHE, on the strength of its expertise in genetics and mouse immunology, is positioned as a pioneer in multiparametric analysis of the immune system of mutant mice in normal conditions or exposed to risks of infection, by an integration of innovative research and technical knowledge in the field of flow and mass cytometry as well as advanced microscopy.