Sentences with phrase «only in rodents»

Other than the amount of maternal care, the consistency over time of that care and the exposure to novelty are also very important not only in rodents (23, 75) but also, monkey models (76).
I am really looking forward to this paper I believe up until now it has been proved only in rodents or cell cultures — right?
Specifically, the repeat elements discovered during the earlier research belonged to the SINEB2 class, which is present only in rodent genomes.

Not exact matches

Founded in 1939, the park's purpose is to preserve natural wildness, exotic trees and strange animals — not only jaguar but capybara (world's biggest rodent), tapir, deer, monkeys, coatis, wild pigs and anteaters.
Neuroscientists have over the past decade uncovered evidence, both in rodent and human studies, that parental caregiving, especially in moments of stress, affects children's development not only on the level of hormones and brain chemicals, but even more deeply, on the level of gene expression.
I only take issue with your last sentence — in many schools kids are not allowed to save fruit and veggies for snacks due to concerns about spoilage and rodent / bug infestation.
While the disease remains a modest threat in rural, undeveloped areas, Green warns that our current stable relationship with plague in the developed world is only as good as our control of urban rodent populations.
In the past decade, a growing body of work has suggested that rodents and other animals have complex mental lives and can experience a range of emotions once only attributed to people.
But she notes that even if the rodent finding is mirrored in people, only a subset of human cancers would be influenced by the drugs — those not already abundant in NRF2.
«Rodents, dogs and other mammals commonly sniff themselves, and they sniff one another in social interactions, and it seems that in the course of evolution, humans have retained this practice — only on a subliminal level.»
They are extremely simple, composed only of RNA enveloped in a fatty membrane, and they all must develop first in an animal host — often rodents or bats — and are spread by insects such as ticks or mosquitoes.
Elizabeth Addis, assistant professor of biology at Gonzaga University, and three senior biology majors are spending this summer researching why the local population of yellow - bellied marmots — those gregarious, burrowing rodents ubiquitous near the Spokane River — are not only surviving but thriving in the urban areas of Spokane.
The livers of the engineered mice were covered in lesions after 10 weeks, and only half of the animals lived longer than that, compared with more than six months for the unmodified rodents.
To date, the only animal research on the neurological effects of space radiation has been done in rodents.
One of the only mammals left in the Everglades for mosquitoes to bite is the hispid cotton rat, a rodent which is one of the only known hosts of a mosquito - borne virus called the Everglades virus.
In one experiment, the rodents increased their pace at a steady rate, whereas in another they only sprinted halfwaIn one experiment, the rodents increased their pace at a steady rate, whereas in another they only sprinted halfwain another they only sprinted halfway.
Not only do rats return over and over again to the place they were tickled, the handling triggers the neurotransmitter dopamine in key reward - related brain circuits in the rodents, he says.
«Nevertheless, we were very surprised to find active cryptochrome 1 in the cone cells of only two mammalian groups, as species whose cones do not contain active cryptochrome 1, for example some rodents and bats, also react to the magnetic field,» says Christine Nießner.
Only rarely do stragglers drift in winter to the Great Lakes and New England, probably when there is a shortage of rodents on their home turf.
The new family tree can also help researchers examine related groups, such as the types of plagues that currently affect only rodents (such as Microtus strains and those that have been found in Chinese marmots)-- and what genetic changes might need to occur to allow them to infect humans.
Beforehand, he thought he should sweep away rodent feces that had accumulated and throw out some old cardboard boxes, because the telescope had only been used intermittently since astronomer George Ellery Hale first installed it in 1904.
As the mice developed, Verma's team found that the rodents» brains were only a third of their normal size, with particularly striking reductions in brain areas involved in learning and memory.
Using human subcutaneous and abdominal fat samples, the scientists, in cooperation with the University Hospital Leipzig and the Karolinska Institutet Stockholm (Sweden), find similar cahnges not only to rodents but also to the human organism.
The treated rodents were not only fatter but also suffered elevated levels of fasting insulin, and alterations in genes related to liver regeneration and detoxification — effects consistent with metabolic disorders in obese patients.
And whereas in rodents LGN cells may fire in response to one or both eyes, until now, neuroscientists had thought that in primates, LGN cells fired only in response to inputs from a single eye.
Now it has been found in rodents as well, which are only distantly related to the others.
They found that the response to these six potential EDs was similar in humans and rodents for only one third of analyses.
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 brainIn 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 brainin 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).
When the UCSD researchers isolated and shut off mutant SOD1genes in the motor neuron cells only, the disease onset slowed, but the course of the disease eventually caught up to the control rodents.
Limitations of the present studies include their performance in mice only and uncertainty of the relevance of rodent models to SARS - CoV vaccines in humans.
Of 69 rodent pairs, 11 did die of «parabiotic disease,» essentially a form of tissue rejection, but in the other pairs, the effects were noticeably positive — although only for the older mice.
The mutation in the guinea pig's ancestor happened more recently than ours — possibly «only» about 20 million years ago, but that is still far enough back to also have affected another member of the caviidae family: The capybara also needs a steady diet of vitamin C to keep a hold on its title of largest living rodent on earth.
So these rodents are in these cages and the only thing you're manipulating is their food intake or their light exposure or something.
All those things could very well happen in humans, and I wouldn't be surprised — but for the time being, those effects have only been shown in rodents.
Measurements of rodents under CR not only show large reductions in skeletal muscle but also bone mass.
Other studies i could find concerning cholesterol and mtorc1 has also only been done in rodents)
At this stage, longevity experiments related to fasting have only been carried out with fruit fly, rodents and monkeys but in these, fasting has shown to increase lifespan by up to 20 % (2)!
With both a tender heart and a scientist's eye, O'Brien studied Wesley's strange habits intensively and first - hand — and provided a mice - only diet that required her to buy the rodents in bulk (28,000 over the owl's lifetime).
This is before we learned that it's illegal to trap and relocate wildlife in the City of Toronto (the only legal way to do this is to call a professional rodent removal company.
The Syrian hamster is the only species of small rodent pet that must live alone in its own habitat.
As a clinician at Suffield Veterinary Hospital, Dr. Sabellico has continued to pursue a special interest, not only in cats and dogs, but pet birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, rodents, and wildlife as well.
North Star Rescue (NSR) is the only rescue organization in the San Francisco Bay Area specifically dedicated to all species of pet rodents and rabbits.
I truly appreciate this program, not only for the rodent control the cats provide, but also because it gives me the joy of having cats in my life again, which has not been possible since my marriage due to my husband's severe pet allergies.
The experiments proving the merits of coconut oil have been done only in humans, rodents and test tubes, which is why we should be very careful with it.
North Star Rescue North Star Rescue (NSR) is the only rescue organization in the San Francisco Bay Area specifically dedicated to all species of pet rodents and rabbits.
Not only was the Siberian Forest cat talked and written about, it was also highly revered for its natural hunting abilities in keeping the rodent population under control on the local farms.
Only cats hunt more rodents in human habitat than street dogs; no other species more effectively rousts monkeys, including macaques, who carry more than 100 infections transmissible by bite or through fecal matter that can kill humans.
We are the only rescue organization in the San Francisco Bay Area specifically dedicated to all species of pet rodents and rabbits.
Slowly but surely, however, there is a movement towards not only accepting the feral cat colonies that call our neighborhoods home, but towards caring for these outdoor cats, cats who provide a service by driving down the rodent population for the homes and businesses in communities all across the country.
Reporting on their study of free - roaming cats in Brooklyn, Calhoon and Haspel write: «Although birds and small rodents are plentiful in the study area, only once in more than 180 [hours] of observations did we observe predation.»
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