Sentences with phrase «of laboratory rodents»

As a first step, his team is testing whether it's possible to stop or slow tau - driven neuron loss and inflammation by lowering ApoE in the early life of laboratory rodents.

Not exact matches

When he offered the fruits of those labors to laboratory packrats and cactus mice, the rodents ate the mild chilies but avoided the hot ones.

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), whose goal is to create «battle - winning technologies» for the Ministry of Defence, has registered a 17 % increase in experiments on pigs, rabbits, monkeys and rodents over the last two years.

More than 160 papers were published on rodent enrichment in 2016 versus a handful at the turn of the millennium; at the 2016 meeting of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 83 out of 171 rodent presentations focused on enrichment — more than twice the number at the 2009 meeting.

They then induced Parkinson's symptoms in laboratory rats by killing the rodents» dopamine - producing neurons with toxins, and injected the viruses into the damaged tissue of some of the animals.

Experimental research on drugs, immunology, and the development of malaria is typically done on related Plasmodium species that infect rodents, including laboratory - reared mice.

While studying the inflammatory mechanisms underlying colitis in rodents, a team of researchers led by Dana Philpott and Thierry Mallevaey realized that their laboratory mice were more susceptible to developing the disease if their intestines were already infected with the protozoan Tritrichomonas muris.

Scientists have found a way to make simple droplets of oil navigate complex labyrinths with the same skill as laboratory rodents.

In particular, Panksepp's work has focused on «the possibility that our most commonly used animal subjects, laboratory rodents, may have social - joy type experiences during their playful activities and that an important communicative - affective component of that process, which invigorates social engagement, is a primordial form of laughter.»

And that could be bad if what happens in laboratory animals also happens in people, because studies in rodents show that BPA can trigger a host of harmful changes, from reproductive havoc to impaired blood - sugar control and obesity (SN: 9/29/07, p. 202).

As part of the team studying poststroke dementia in Dr. Kristian Doyle's laboratory, Dr. Nguyen applies more than 10 years of experience in quantifying neurodegeneration, immune responses, and behavior in rodent models.

In the laboratory, the researchers exposed juvenile rodents to a single session of unpredictable stress.

In laboratory tests using rodents, White and his colleagues found that while morphine lost its pain - relieving effectiveness three weeks after nerve injury, a combination therapy of morphine and carbamazepine — used to prevent epileptic seizures — could effectively reverse this loss of drug action.

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«Laboratory rodent diets contain toxic levels of environmental contaminants: implications for regulatory tests» by Robin Mesnage et al. published in PLOS ONE on Thursday 2 July 2015.

In my previous work, in the laboratory of Stéphanie Lacour at EPFL, we pioneered an electronic device chronically integrated on the surface of the spinal cord (and brain) in rodents (Minev at al, Science 2015).

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In laboratory research, rodent models of seizure activity, typically differentiate between absence seizures (a type of generalized epilepsy, in which electrical activity of the entire brain is affected), and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (a type of partial epilepsy, which only affects one hemisphere of the brain).

A consortium of researchers from North Carolina State University, Texas A&M, USDA, CSIRO (in Australia), and Island Conservation are in a proof - of - concept phase of developing and testing genetic systems of this sort in the laboratory to precisely eliminate invasive rodents from sensitive ecosystems.

The scientists said they created their mice from the brain cells of rodents that had been kept in laboratory conditions at -20 C.

The Dodt and Frank Bradke laboratories later developed the 3DISCO (3 - dimensional imaging of solvent cleared organs) method of imaging rodent brains and spinal cords by combining Ultramicroscopy with tetrahydrofuran - based tissue clearing (13,14).

He spent his basic research career studying the mechanisms of steroid hormone action on the brain, behavior, and mental health, and the influences of the environment and stressors on those actions in laboratory rodents.

During this time, I have been actively engaged in clinical studies of participants that have been diagnosed with glaucoma or high - risk ocular hypertension, as well as in laboratory - based studies on experimental glaucoma models in rodents and non-human primates.

Laboratory Animals publish this month a paper summarising the findings of an NC3Rs expert working group who have been investigating the impact of rodent age on study outcomes.

In this study, we begin the empirical effort to determine the likely direction of immune - mediated virulence evolution by performing experimental evolution of the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi, in laboratory mice.

The current findings are «another piece of evidence that what we see in laboratory rodents on caloric restriction translates to humans,» said Richard Weindruch, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, who has studied caloric restriction since 1975 but did not participate in Floel's study.

Fructose maintains a low glycemic index of 23 and a low glycemic load, but paradoxically it is routinely used to induce insulin resistance in laboratory rodents at high (35 — 65 % of energy) dietary concentrations (85,86).

«Unlike laboratory rodents, dogs share a common environment with people and, therefore, may be exposed to some of the same carcinogens.

Her love of pocket pets grew during her undergraduate years while working with her college's laboratory rodents.

At least in laboratory rodents, high fat diets are no friend of the kidneys.

The Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory offers hematology, coagulation, and biochemical testing, urinalysis, and body fluid analysis for a variety of species, including dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs, poultry, camelids, rodents, non-human primates, reptiles, and fish.

It should be mentioned that traditional laboratory rodents usually do not display pair bond formation, a behavioral characteristic that is displayed by less than 5 % of mammalian species (Kleiman, 1977; Dewsbury, 1988).