Sentences with phrase «other animal studies»

Other animal studies have shown that supplementing with melatonin causes a decrease in the amount of brain tissue affected by stroke, thereby leading to improved outcomes — and more rapid recovery.
«Given the long and established history of curcumin as a spice and herbal medicine, its demonstrated chemopreventive and therapeutic potential, and its pharmacological safety in model system, curcumin, the bioactive extract of curcumin, promises a great future in human clinical studies designed to prevent and / or delay age - related diseases,» explained the authors of a review on these and other animal studies involving curcumin.
[34] In other animal studies, cyanidins protected cell membrane lipids from oxidation by a variety of harmful substances.
And other animal studies have shown that sugar produces three symptoms consistent with addiction: cravings, tolerance (so you want more and more), and withdrawal.
Other animal studies have linked aspartame to brain damage and brain tumors, 10 even in low doses.
It rejected many other animal studies, primarily done by academics, as too small, inconsistent, or unreliable.
In other animal studies, he observed that pancreatic juices break down fats and starches and that certain nerves control blood flow by triggering veins to constrict or dilate.
Start with the studies done by Jane Goodall, and then continue with a HUGE variety of other animal studies that PROVE animals have morals, they use tools, build societies and cultures, have their own languages (such as the prarie dogs... simple little rodents right?

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(One is working as a teaching assistant while studying for a master's degree in math; the other volunteers at an animal shelter.)
The lengthy research cited on HVMN's website and others are primarily animal studies, rather than human studies, and primarily test one of two compounds in combination, rather than the half - dozen contained in a product like SPRINT.
There are even studies with pre-verbal children (haven't been socialized to religion yet) and other but non-human social animals that show that morality, if you accept that a sense of fairness and preferring «nice» over the opposite are proto - morals, then indeed it is evolution that makes it so.
Dalahäst There are whole medical and scientific fields which study emotions in both humans and other animals.
To continue Robert, as I have studied the conceptof intelligence, especially how it pertains to other animals, most of those concepts are not even confined to humans.
To support his claim that property is natural, Pipes appeals to biological studies of possessiveness and territoriality among human beings and other animals.
On the other hand, it would be overly simple to claim the Hebrew Scriptures in support of our modern study of animal life or the work of environmental conservation, since it is clear that neither priest not prophet thought the order of nature as we now see it to reflect God's intentions, either original or ultimate, for it.
The fish is considered a local delicacy, and if the legend is true, the study of the Cascadura and other animals and agricultural products will ensure Trinidad has enough resources to feed all of the visitors who eventually will return.
It's easy to conclude from those two animal studies alone that virgin coconut oil is a superior dietary oil for health and is safer to use as a cooking oil than other popular unsaturated fat cooking oils.
A team of researchers published a study first of its kind in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry in 2008 analyzing the phytoestrogen content of eggs among other animal food products and vegetarian substitutes (10).
so often they just look at potential markers — but those don't always equate to diseases)- what was the health of the those being studied - I'm assuming the test subjects were people, but other studies done on animal subjects might not be as reliable as those done on humans.
(Los Angeles, CA October 3, 2014)-- A 2014 third - party, double - blind, crossover study at the University of Tampa, has shown that Oryzatein ® brown rice protein absorbs slower into the bloodstream over time than whey, providing bodybuilders and other athletes with a plant - based alternative to animal - based whey protein to enhance their endurance.
Numerous studies have linked diets higher in plant protein than animal protein to reduced risk of heart disease, cancer, and other health ailments.
«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.
So the animal studies give us only a hint at how early experience can affect development — the way human babies are treated by caregivers has even more effects on them than for any other animal because they are born so immature.
This year, Toys «R» Us and Wal - Mart said they were phasing out baby bottles and other infant - feeding products that contain bisphenol A, a chemical in many plastics that caused breast cancer, low sperm counts and other serious ailments in some animal studies.
The Food and Drug Administration has long permitted its use, but in recent years concerns about the chemical have grown as studies have indicated low doses of the substance can disrupt hormone systems in laboratory animals and possibly increase the risk of cancer or other serious illness.
And while the science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Europe.
In humans, other mammals, and many other animals that have been studied — such as fish, birds, ants, and fruit - flies — regular sleep is necessary for survival.
I am unsure why you disagree with using data / results from studying other animals that are known to be similar to humans — I see studies all the time that correlate results in other species (eg, to demonstrate the carcinogenic properties of something, they give it to rats and watch for tumors).
Over the past decade, a growing body of scientific studies has linked the chemical to breast cancer, testicular cancer, diabetes, hyperactivity, obesity, low sperm count, miscarriage and other reproductive problems in laboratory animals.
Using a variety of plants, animals, and microbes, the researchers will study the possibility that organisms can influence their own evolution and that inheritance can take place through routes other than the genetic material.
The studies suggested that most infections resulting from animal bites are «polymicrobial,» caused by several different bacteria or other germs.
But although animal studies have suggested that tea can protect against diseases such as skin and stomach cancer, the antioxidants in tea had not been directly compared to those found in other foods.
Animal studies done in the UK and South Africa found no pharmacological effects of rhino horn — or any other animal Animal studies done in the UK and South Africa found no pharmacological effects of rhino horn — or any other animal animal horns.
Other groups have attempted to induce PANDAS in animals, says James Leckman, a pediatric psychiatry researcher at Yale University, who was not involved in the study, but the results from those studies were inconsistent.
The new study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.
In animal studies, the technique more effectively targeted melanoma than other immunotherapy treatments.
Numerous animal studies document their adverse impacts on developmental, metabolic, reproductive and other bodily systems.
Roughly 800 million years ago, in the late Proterozoic Eon, phosphorus, a chemical element essential to all life, began to accumulate in shallow ocean zones near coastlines widely considered to be the birthplace of animals and other complex organisms, according to a new study by geoscientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University.
Even more important, this seminal work opens the road for comparative neuroimaging studies in which humans and other animals perform similar tasks using similar methodologies, and the results can be analyzed using similar strategies.
It's an approach they hope to see adopted in studies of other social animals.
In addition, he believes that modern imaging provides a bridge between human cognitive neuroscience and animal studies, allowing more inferences from one to the other.
«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.
«They are almost without doubt actual footprints of a bipedally - walking animal,» says Robin Crompton at the University of Liverpool, UK, who was not involved in the study but who has analysed other hominin footprints.
A 1999 critique of primate mirror self - recognition studies in the journal Animal behavior said that differences between species could be due to the conditions in which they were reared, and that it was premature to speculate as to how the skill relates to other cognitive abilities, such as inferring the mental states of others.
Many of these animals are fierce predators that sit atop the food web, but Laidre's team found that they are also important subsistence resources: Arctic people hunt nearly 80 % of the studied populations for food and other uses.
Morrissey adds that the unique coding property of the mPFC identified in the study may support its role in the formation, maintenance, and updating of associative knowledge structures that help support flexible and adaptive behaviour in rats and other animals.
Though handedness has been described in other whales before, this study «demonstrates that you really need to consider the context of how animals are feeding in their environment,» says study coauthor Ari Friedlaender, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
In animal studies this sharply reduces cravings and halts addicted animals» tendency to self - administer cocaine and other habit - forming drugs.
According to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASDs improve their social skills and interactions with other people.
«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.
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