Sentences with phrase «on laboratory animals»

Studies on laboratory animals show that excess dietary vitamin D and vitamin D metabolites cause changes to dental and gum tissue that in many ways resemble the changes seen in cats with tooth resorption.

BHT, BHA: Chemical preservatives such as BHT and BHA have caused some concerns when tested on laboratory animals.

While most of the studies on winter squash's benefits for health have been conducted on laboratory animals, there have been numerous studies on the various nutrients in pumpkin that support the claims made here.

Last year, researchers started 3.2 million experiments or «scientific procedures» on laboratory animals, an increase of 35 000 over the number begun in 1990 and the first increase since 1976.

This is not only because tests on laboratory animals can cause much suffering, but also because the relevance of the data they provide for predicting effects in humans or other animals is severely limited by differences among major species.

With the harvested follicles, investigators such as James V. («Vince») Gruber, global director of research and development at Lonza Consumer Care, can test the effectiveness of new hair and skin products without relying on laboratory animals.

Tests on laboratory animals with a type of experimental leukemia... have shown that the extract, known as camptothecin, has high antitumor properties.

However, recent studies on laboratory animals have shown the ability of ground pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seed extracts, and pumpkin seed oil to improve insulin regulation in diabetic animals and to prevent some unwanted consequences of diabetes on kidney function.

All animal experiments were carried out under the approval of the Administrative Panel on Laboratory Animal Care of Stanford University.

Veterinary Services (VS) internship focuses on laboratory animal medicine in various species (feline, cattle, swine, rabbits and rodents).

In addition, he edited four major textbooks on laboratory animal science, including the three - volume «Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science» with Norman H. Altman, as well as publishing more than 50 scientific papers.

Not exact matches

John Eppig, a reproductive biologist at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine raised the concern that no animal studies with a control group have been done — a standard practice with experimental medical procedures — yet somehow the procedure is being tried on humans.

PETA focuses its attention on four main areas in which the largest number of animals suffer the most intensely including factory farms: the clothing trade, laboratories, and the entertainment industry.

It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal laboratory or, at the very least, on a computer model.

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Diapers and diaperlike products are sometimes used on pets, laboratory animals, or working animals.

Independent studies have conclusively shown adverse health effects of BPA on the brain and reproductive system, as well as metabolic diseases in laboratory animals.

«Whilst we recognise the need to ensure the safety of the armed forces and civilians in conflict, it is very disappointing to see the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory report a rise in the number of animals it is using in scientific procedures year on year since 2009,» Kailah Eglington, Chief Executive of the Dr Hadwen Trust, told politics.co.uk.

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In laboratory tests on embryonic mice engineered to not express myomerger in skeletal muscle, the animals did not develop enough muscle fiber to live.

«Other studies have seen a relationship between tameness and stress responses in animals,» said Jessica Hekman, the first author of the paper who worked on the study as a graduate student in the laboratory of University of Illinois animal sciences professor Anna Kukekova.

Paradoxically it's almost impossible to get laboratory animals hooked on pure nicotine, though it has a mildly pleasant effect.

His opposition to animal research began in 1995, when, in the summer between high school and college, he worked in a hospital laboratory that was conducting heart studies on pigs and witnessed experiments he saw as cruel.

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.

Laboratory experiments on animals indicate that as doses decrease, less and less damage escapes DNA - repair mechanisms, says Yoshihisa Matsumoto, a radiation biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

«It's true that many laboratory studies have examined the effect of nanomaterials on human and animal cells.

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

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.»

During the past two years, activists have conducted a crusade against Huntingdon Life Sciences, a laboratory that tests drugs and other products on animals.

Be that as it may, one thing is certain — this is a golden opportunity for the development, validation, and application of alternative test methodologies and testing strategies, namely, procedures that do not rely on the use of laboratory animals.

Squashed flat on a laboratory slide, an ordinary animal cell may look vulnerable.

«If human organs on chips can be shown to be robust and consistently recapitulate complex human organ physiology and disease phenotypes in unrelated laboratories around the world, as suggested by early proof - of - concept studies, then we will see them progressively replace one animal model at a time.

In a memo, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue noted that staff who conduct epidemiological investigations of food - borne disease outbreaks will stay on the job, as will those who respond to pest outbreaks and care for laboratory animals and «critical research infrastructure.»

The United Kingdom has a painful history of animal rights extremism that has included break - ins at laboratories, fire bombs, and the violent intimidation of researchers, animal breeders, building contractors working on laboratories, and companies that transport animals.

Such ease of use will likely encourage the use of more animal models in the study of human diseases, says Rhonda Wiler, a geneticist at biotech giant Genentech in San Francisco, California, who co-chairs the Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use (which organized the workanimal models in the study of human diseases, says Rhonda Wiler, a geneticist at biotech giant Genentech in San Francisco, California, who co-chairs the Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use (which organized the workAnimal Use (which organized the workshop).

In an effort to put behind them decades of opposition from animal rights campaigners, dozens of organizations involved in animal research released a concordat on openness today aimed at helping the public better understand the conditions of animals in laboratories and their importance for medical and biological science.

«When you start to add more and more of the nutrients that the animal would normally be providing, the plant is no longer as dependent on that animal for those nutrients and so it starts to return less of the sugars back to the animal,» explained lead author Shantz, a doctoral candidate in the Burkepile Community Ecology Laboratory.

«Almost all life on Earth is based on plants — animals eat plants and we eat animals or plants,» says Wolfgang Busch, an associate professor in Salk's Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory and senior author of the new paper.

As biomedical research mushroomed, animal dealers did a brisk trade supplying chimpanzees to laboratories anxious to test their vaccines, drugs and theories about disease on our closest living relatives.

She finished her degree in biochemistry and went to work at a toxicology laboratory associated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, analyzing chemicals tested olaboratory associated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, analyzing chemicals tested oLaboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, analyzing chemicals tested on animals.

According to the authors of the study, in future researches it will be necessary to know about the action mechanism of the new products - highly selective and with low cell toxicity on in vitro tests - and broaden preclinical studies with laboratory animal models.

The findings have implications for all aspects of medical and scientific research because laboratory mice underpin studies whose results have a transformative effect on human and animal lives through vaccination and other immune - based therapies.

«It will certainly lead to boring names and a lot of confusion,» predicts Linfa Wang, an expert on emerging infectious diseases at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong.

In raising the first germ - free zebrafish, the team has produced «extremely powerful tools for examining the influence of beneficial bacteria on animal development,» says microbiologist Margaret McFall - Hgai of Kewalo Marine Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii.

But prior research on the effects of famine in humans and in laboratory animals suggest that famine does indeed cause such health risks, the study authors said.

On Monday, a U.K. court convicted four animal - rights activists of threatening companies that supply an animal testing laboratory, a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks.

Experiments performed by coauthor Mireia Uribe - Herranz, PhD, a research associate in Facciabene's lab, demonstrate that when ACT was performed on genetically identical animals obtained from different vendors (Jackson Laboratory or Harlan Laboratories), which carry different microbiota, impact of the therapy was not identical.

But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have made an important breakthrough: they have discovered a way to transform skin cells into mature, fully functioning liver cells that flourish on their own, even after being transplanted into laboratory animals modified to mimic liver failure.

Meanwhile, researchers at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, near Melbourne, have been focusing on pigs, from which the virus is thought to have jumped to people.

«For the first time in animals, we have assembled a high - quality genome, permitting the discovery of all the genetic differences between two individuals within a species,» said Mahul Chakraborty, a postdoctoral scholar in the Emerson laboratory and first author on the study.