Sentences with phrase «of lab rodents»

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Currently, the Department of Health's Public Health Lab maintains two employees who are only permitted to investigate and enforce rodent control issues.

About a third of mice exposed to severe stress (in the form of aggressive attacks by other rodents) seem to breeze through these assaults without developing the social withdrawal, listlessness or other depression and traumalike symptoms displayed by most of their rodent lab - mates.

The paper found that the mere presence of men in the lab induced such intense stress in rodents that it altered how the animals reacted to pain.

And given the tens of millions of rodents and fish in U.S. labs alone, they blanch at the cost.

Advocates are pushing to enrich the lives of rodents and fish in the lab, but critics worry about the impact on research

The lab mice that survived exposure to the bacteria and viruses of the pet store rodents had stronger immune systems, suggesting to Masopust and Jameson that such dirty mice might be better for testing the safety of vaccines and new drugs.

Researchers aware of this reality have now shown that transplanting gut bacteria from wild mice into «clean» lab mice has made those rodents less likely to die from the flu or develop cancer.

At a neuroscience meeting, two teams of researchers will report implanting human brain organoids into the brains of lab rats and mice, raising the prospect that the organized, functional human tissue could develop further within a rodent.

Perhaps most significantly, in a study led by Frances Champagne — then a graduate student in Meaney's lab, now an associate professor with her own lab at Columbia University in New York — they found that inattentive mothering in rodents causes methylation of the genes for estrogen receptors in the brain.

In the previously unreported experiments implanting human brain organoids into lab rodents, most of the transplants survived, in one case for at least two months, according to summaries of the two papers being presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C..

In this study, the team, which included Dr. Meerim Nurbaeva and Miriam Eckstein in Dr. Lacruz's lab, for the first time used freshly dissected enamel cells (ameloblasts) from rodent teeth to modulate physiological processes in order to understand the contribution of CRAC channels in enamel calcium signaling.

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While trying to come up with a contagious method of birth control among rodent pests, an Australian lab in 2001 modified a mousepox virus, which, unintentionally, caused the rodents» immune system to fail completely — even in animals previously vaccinated against mousepox.

Although researchers once thought this ability was unique to primates and humans, Redish's lab and other groups have demonstrated that rodents also perform a kind of mental time travel as they learn to navigate through mazes.

The lab of co-author Dr. Robert Bast Jr., an expert in ovarian cancer and vice president for translational research at MD Anderson, inserted gel - bound carbon nanotubes into the ovaries of rodents to mimic the accumulations that are expected for nanotubes linked to special antibodies that recognize tumor cells.

The rodents were then scanned with the Rice lab's custom - built optical device to detect the faint emission signatures of as little as 100 picograms of nanotubes.

So instead of studying the whole animals, he began isolating single nerve cells from the mole rats and investigating them in lab dishes to track the molecular basis of the rodent's pain insensitivity.

* Two small lab vials of Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is an acute bacterial infection transmitted to humans and some domestic animals by fleas that come from infected rodents.

Since then, he and his colleagues have shown in lab studies of rodents and pythons that these animals grow up bigger and faster when they eat cooked meat instead of raw meat — and that it takes less energy to digest cooked meat than raw meat.

The diets of rodents in food safety and toxicology studies is the topic of a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, in which the authors report the presence of contaminants including heavy metals, pesticides, and genetically modified organisms in the feed or lab rodents.

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This webinar will discuss the differences between these two types of lab animal diets and how they can affect different aspects of oncology research in rodents.

CB1 antagonists have been shown to decrease nicotine self - administration in rodent models of nicotine dependence.24 While CB1 agonists increase feeding in rats and humans, CB1 antagonists have been shown to have the opposite effect, significantly suppressing rats» food intake regardless of type of diet (standard lab chow, high fat or high carbohydrate).

Grodstein: A good friend of mine is a scientist at Columbia, and she hooked me up with a tour of the school's rodent labs.

One practice in particular at the university's labs involved drawing blood from behind the eyes of rodents without any painkillers.

My lab is is a research unit of the Department of Surgery located on the veterinary hospital campus, primarily focused on translational research using complex nonhuman primate (NHP) disease models and screening rodent models.

Their last game to land on consoles came in the form of Tiny Brains, a journey that led players into the world of rodents caught in scientific lab experiments — their newest game has a slightly different tone.

The rat reference wasn't totally arbitrary either: At the 2015 Frieze New York art fair, Sasamoto created a life - sized maze of rooms — each offering a set of choices to move forward — that well - heeled art patrons were forced to figure out, like big drunken lab rodents.