Sentences with phrase «of several animal studies»

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Onions have been shown to lower blood sugar levels in several animal and human studies and may decrease the risk of diabetes.

There have been lots of cell and animal research, which prove that turmeric has a good influence on a number of illnesses and also several human studies have shown positive results as well.

Studies done with animals show that acrylamide in the diet increases the risk of developing several different types of cancer, including stomach and colon cancer and don't get me started on the salt levels.

The study, led by Dr Allan Debelle and Dr Rhonda Snook in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, looked at the mating patterns of fruit flies after they evolved for 100 generations in either polyandrous populations (where several males have to compete for a single female) and monogamous populations (where each male has access to only one female).

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

Our animal ancestors used their noses way more than we do in modern society, says Jessica Freiherr, a neuroscientist at RWTH Aachen University, in Germany, and the author of several studies on human olfaction.

This study is among several funded under a public - private partnership established in 2008 between NICHD and the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars Inc., to establish a human - animal interaction research program to support studies relevant to child development, health, and the therapeutic use of animals.

Still used today by some companies, the test involves applying a small amount of the substance under study to an animal's eye or skin for several hours, and then observing whether or not irritation occurs over the following week or two.

For the new study, reported in the 20 April issue of Science, animal communication researcher Karen McComb of the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom, and Sarah Durant of the Institute of Zoology in London studied 20 small family groups of elephants, each typically containing several females and their calves, in Kenya.

Several studies have clearly shown that the spread of animal and plant species through global trade has increased massively over the past few decades.

A study of 110 dead red squirrels from around the UK and Ireland has found that the animals carry several strains of leprosy.

Over several years studying an elephant seal colony in Año Nuevo State Park, California, the researchers were able to recognize many of the individual animals just by the rhythm of their voices, he says.

Many animal studies have demonstrated that several classes of flame retardants act as endocrine - disrupting chemicals and interfere with thyroid homeostasis (function), partly because they share a similar chemical structure with thyroid hormones, Sosa said.

Sharpe has been studying dwarf mongooses at the Phuza Moya Private Game Reserve in northeastern South Africa, where several groups of the animals are habituated to the presence of humans.

In the study, the scientists used a type of mouse, called CVN - AD, that they had created several years ago by swapping out a handful of important genes to make the animal's immune system more similar to a human's.

Although the majority of knowledge on the effects of vacuum exposure comes from animal studies, there have also been several informative — and scary — depressurization accidents involving people.

Ethologist Frans de Waal has offered several observations of apparent empathy among nonhuman primates in his 1996 book Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, but richer insights come from a series of studies published about 40 years ago, when standards for animal welfare were minimal.

The team of researchers studied stable carbon isotopes in the tooth enamel of the large primates — which are able to reveal information about the animals» dietary habits even after several million years.

Nevertheless several new studies argue in favor of considering animals

He added that each animal can produce up to several hundred or even a thousand human doses of antibody per month, making the platform very scalable, based on data from this and other studies.

The metabolic analysis of the mice could be combined with clinical assessments, by performing biochemical analysis in blood, plasma, urine and tissues (i.e, lipid and cholesterol content, glycogen content...) and by performing autopsy of the animal at the end of phenotyping study with several tissue collections (i.e, histology, mRNA anlaysis, protein analysis...).

Indeed, performing X-Ray or ultrasounds on the same animals all along a study avoid the use of several groups euthanized every week as done many years ago.

The approval process involves several steps including preclinical laboratory and animal studies, clinical trials for safety and efficacy, filing of a New Drug Application by the manufacturer of the drug, and FDA review and approval of the application.

Studies have shown that lab animals live several tens of percent longer than normal as a result.

Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes, «there is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects» and that «GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health.»

Several diseases that are defined by chronic inflammation result in significantly increased risks of cancer, such as colon cancer in patients with ulcerative colitis (an inflammatory bowel disease).2, 3 Interestingly, studies show that irritable bowel disease in itself can invoke stress, and as a result, decrease immune function.4 Animal studies have shown that stress alone can exacerbate colitis, 5 connecting the two (which comes first?).

Animal studies have shown that exposure to acrylamide increases the risk of several types of cancer, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer considers acrylamide a «probable human carcinogen.»

Several human and animal studies have confirmed the beneficial effects of consuming large doses of this particular HGH supplement ingredient.

It has been shown to increase the lifespan of several animal species in studies.

As Masterjohn explains, «The utilization of protein requires vitamin A. Several animal studies have shown that liver reserves of vitamin A are depleted by a high dietary intake of protein, while vitamin A increases in non-liver tissues.

In the laboratory animal study, avocado leaf extract in doses ranging from 100 milligrams to 800 milligrams per kilogram of body weight helped prevent seizures in response to several substances known to induce seizures.

In the mouse model of MS, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), positive effects of modified fasting and ketogenic nutrition on disease onset and clinical course in animals have been observed in several studies.

On their native diet they are free of disease and exceptionally hardy.17 An extensive study of diet and disease patterns in China found that the region in which the populace consumes large amounts of whole milk had half the rate of heart disease as several districts in which only small amounts of animal products are consumed.18 Several Mediterranean societies have low rates of heart disease even though fat — including highly saturated fat from lamb, sausage and goat cheese — comprises up to 70 % of their caloric several districts in which only small amounts of animal products are consumed.18 Several Mediterranean societies have low rates of heart disease even though fat — including highly saturated fat from lamb, sausage and goat cheese — comprises up to 70 % of their caloric Several Mediterranean societies have low rates of heart disease even though fat — including highly saturated fat from lamb, sausage and goat cheese — comprises up to 70 % of their caloric intake.

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

While it is true that researchers have induced heart disease in some animals by giving them extremely large dosages of oxidized or rancid cholesterol — amounts ten times that found in the ordinary human diet — several population studies squarely contradict the cholesterol - heart disease connection.

Several studies done on animal models have suggested that the principal compound in cilantro, linalool, has an ability to revamp and boost the antioxidant function of the liver.

Amongst several auxiliary discoveries such as a lack of cancers, zero facial deformation, zero cavities, rugged resistance to disease and joyful exuberance for life... he noted that all of the strongest, healthiest and happiest tribes he studied ate a diet rich in saturated fats from animal meat and organs.

In addition, a new study conducted on animals, also revealed at the symposium, focused on the beneficial effect of a symbiotic (prebiotic and probiotic) maple sap drink in recovering gut flora balance, which can be lost for several reasons, including treatment with antibiotics.

A colleague informed him of a startling trend: liver cancer was plaguing affluent Filipinos at a much higher rate than their less - wealthy counterparts — a phenomenon that, despite a slew of other lifestyle differences, Campbell believed was linked to their higher intake of animal protein.1 Bolstering his suspicions, Campbell also learned of a recent study from India showing that a high protein intake spurred liver cancer in rats, while a low protein intake seemed to prevent it.2 Intrigued by this gem of little - known research, Campbell decided to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer growth himself — an endeavor that ended up lasting several decades and producing over one hundred publications (none of which pertained to Fight Club).3

Several studies have been done on lab animals to test this, and the results have demonstrated cognitive benefits of Yerba mate.

Most studies have focused on the effect of individual BAs administered intravenously to laboratory animals or healthy volunteers, but these results are difficult to transfer to food intake since the intravenous response is several times higher than that obtained with oral administrations [87].

The caveat is there aren't too many human studies with PQQ yet; most of these are animal studies, but preliminary clinical studies are extremely encouraging, and several larger clinical trials are currently either completed waiting publication or are in process.

And the American Academy of Environmental Medicine states that several animal studies showed serious health risks from eating genetically modified foods including:

Several of these «risk factors» can be improved by vinegar consumption, but many of the studies were done in animals.

We have seen several studies involving decreased risk of bone fracture in children and teens who regularly consume milk, and we've also seen animal studies showing reduced risk of osteoporosis following regular milk consumption.

There have been several studies performed on animals that show a strong link between fertility issues and a diet of GE food.

Some of the reader comments below that article talk about the «rumor» that females might respond differently biologically to fasting — but it's not a «rumor», and Stefani had referred to the results of several published research studies, was very careful to describe how most of the research up to that point had been done on animals, gave all sorts of caveats, described very well her concerns and questions, etc..

Over the past several years, studies in cell cultures and animals have found that metformin appears to slow or stop the growth of a wide range of cancer cells, including those associated with breast, prostate, lung, and endometrial cancer.

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Several animal studies have demonstrated a lowering of blood cholesterol and triacylglycerol concen - trations with resistant starch intake (de Deckere et al., 1993; Ranhotra et al., 1997; Younes et al., 1995).