Sentences with phrase «only test animal»

«I'm not saying it is inappropriate for all testing, but to use it as the only test animal in this program means that we could really underestimate the effects of certain kinds of chemicals.

However, these studies have been limited by only testing animals at younger ages; older animals have rarely been examined.

Not exact matches

We systematically torture hundreds of millions of animals in tests, and for instructional purposes, for only trivial gain to humanity.

I have the uneasy feeling,» I wrote, «that the first few hundred test - tube babies should have been simians» («Test - Tube Conception: Troubling Issues,» August 16 - 23, 1978) I was not only overready to foresee bad news for humankind if this new technique were adopted; I was also, as current animal - rights spokespersons might point out, a humankind chauvintest - tube babies should have been simians» («Test - Tube Conception: Troubling Issues,» August 16 - 23, 1978) I was not only overready to foresee bad news for humankind if this new technique were adopted; I was also, as current animal - rights spokespersons might point out, a humankind chauvinTest - Tube Conception: Troubling Issues,» August 16 - 23, 1978) I was not only overready to foresee bad news for humankind if this new technique were adopted; I was also, as current animal - rights spokespersons might point out, a humankind chauvinist.

Only tested on real curls, never on animals Boucléme work with a panel of everyday curlies with different hair issues to make sure every curl type is covered.

The only way to test an animal for rabies is on their brain tissue, which can not be done in a live animal.

These findings allowed researchers to create a chimera virus: a mouse virus with a human viral gene that can be used to test molecules that inhibit human LANA protein in an animal model of disease, treating not only human herpes virus infection but also its associated cancers.

It infected four people at an animal facility in Reston, Virginia, in November 1989, but no one fell ill; the infections were detectable only through blood tests.

These effects endured not only throughout the animals» lives but were carried on to the next generation and along the same gender lines: The offspring of dual - parented pups turned in superior performances on tests of cognitive ability and social skills than mice raised by single parents.

But for both people and animals, voluntary lab testing to diagnose flu captures only the small fraction of cases that ever involve a doctor visit.

NAVS maintains that not only is animal testing of any kind inhumane, but it's also more expensive and less reliable than other methods which do not rely on inflicting pain and suffering on rabbits and other furry friends.

It had never been tested in people, only in two animal studies from the 1940s.

The unexpected idea has been tested only in cells and animals so far, but some scientists are already considering whether lowering oxygen levels might treat certain rare but deadly conditions.

Holzschuh went looking for research on this topic and found only 22 studies that tested how rock climbing might affect plants or animals.

Only one test — in which Wilson simulated a predator by squirting water at the animals — revealed a personality shift; a tadpole that responded by freezing in place for a long time was just as likely to become a frog that resumed normal activities right away.

Five animals tested positive for Cryptosporidium; the species that were found can only infect cats.

When Badylak decided to investigate the technique on his own, it was only natural that he would gravitate back toward animal patients, this time as test subjects.

But vaccines that only contained HIV's surface protein looked lackluster in animal and test tube studies, and then proved worthless in large - scale clinical trials.

Only one of the 20 Spalax tested (an animal that was more than 10 years old) developed malignant tumors after exposure to one of the carcinogens.

Only then was Deisseroth ready to test optogenetics in a living animal.

Though Li's adhesive has been tested only in human cell cultures and in lab animals, another bio-inspired glue has made its way into human trials.

To test whether the animals experienced regret, Redish and Steiner watched the rats keenly on the occasions when they left one restaurant hungry only to wait even longer at the next one.

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.

Venoms have been shown to fight cancer, kill bacteria, and even serve as potent painkillers — though many have only gone as far as animal tests.

Many animals test their legs and totter forth only hours after they are born, but humans need a year before they take their first, hesitant steps.

And the EERC fuel is not the only bio-based jet fuel available: UOP, LLC, a division of Honeywell Specialty Materials, has a similar fuel made from vegetable and animal oils, whereas algae - grower Solazyme, Inc., has derived a jet fuel from pond scum that meets ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials International) standards.

With only animal studies to go on, researchers also had to pursue a crash course in vaccine and drug testing to get products into the field

It is poisonous but only at relatively large doses; in rats it killed half of the animals tested at concentrations above 825 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.

Yet much of the evidence cited by smart drug enthusiasts comes from animal experiments which can, by virtue of their design, test only a drug's effect on learning, not recall.

But tests have shown the only animal capable of transmitting the virus to horses is the domestic cat.

«Drugs that specifically target PGE2 pathways have already been developed and tested in animals, so our results have excellent potential for clinical translation, not only for the treatment of influenza, but other viral respiratory infections that interact with similar host immune pathways,» says senior study author Divangahi, who is also a member of the Infectious and Immunity Axis at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC).

In comparison to a control group which only received a placebo, the treated animals achieved significantly better results on memory tests.

The protein, called glial cell - line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), was first isolated in 1993 and has so far only been tested in animals.

«The time from selection of the target through discovery of the antibody and completion of initial animal tests totaled only about five months,» said Hongkai Zhang, a research associate in the Lerner laboratory who was first author of the study.

Of the many thousands of compounds tested in cells and in animal models each year, only a few will enter clinical trials.

If the marriage of stem cells and CRISPR follows a similar path, it might not be long before pigs have enough Homo sapiens in them not only to grow human hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys for transplant but also to model human diseases more closely than current lab animals do and to test experimental drugs.

In an operant test R6 / 2 transgenic mice (240 - CAG repeats, B6 congenic background) were less able to acquire lever pressing than control animals at an age where motor function is only mildly affected (from 9 weeks), with this deficit being both more pronounced and detected earlier (from 5 weeks) where reinforcement was not solely contingent on responding.

«Birds are ideally suited for such a test, as they are one of the only groups of animals for which the relationship between large brains and enhanced behavioural response to ecological challenges is best understood.

None of the animals given any of the alum - adjuvanted DI vaccine (DIV) dosages and only an occasional animal in the lower dosages of nonadjuvanted vaccine yielded virus (Kruskall - Wallis and Mann Whitney U tests, p > 0.05 for all comparisons).

These chips could also be used to evaluate antibody drugs and other immunotherapies, which are difficult to test thoroughly in animals because the treatments are only designed to interact with the human immune system.

Only one animal (IK14) was not positive by either test.

Few of the tested effects of rapamycin in our dataset were seen only in aged mice, not in young animals (RER, fat mass, γδ T cells, and CD44hi T cells); however, previous reports have shown aging - independent effects of mTOR inhibition on CD44 expression in T lymphocytes and fat mass (30, 31, 34).

However, the testing was only done on animals so far.

Only six randomized, controlled trials specifically testing the substitution of polyunsaturated vegetable oils for animal fats have been published.64 - 69 These trials are discussed in more detail in the sidebar below.

Medihoney Category: Comvita and / or partners may only test finished products on animals for reasons of human safety, medical advancement or where required by regulation (s).

Our natural skincare products are ethically manufactured in Australia and are only exported to countries that also comply with NO ANIMAL TESTING.

While the majority of studies done on green tea have only been done in vitro (isolated from the living organism — think «test tube») and and in animals, the scientific literature looks promising.

They use only the hides and the animals are put through rigorous testing and inspections to ensure they are safe for human consumption.

The person responsible for the discovery of PCO bioflavonoids was a French scientist named Dr. Jacques Masquelier, who first tested bioflavonoid - containing peanuts on lab animals and discovered that their blood vessel walls would double in strength only hours after ingesting them.

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