Sentences with phrase «raised by a rat»

Maybe he'll grow up and be awesome — or maybe he'll get sucked into the sewers and be raised by rats.»

For those who are not aware, the TMNT were four turtles rescued and raised by a Rat named Splinter, a martial arts master who trained the four turtles over the years.

Not exact matches

Tough was heavily influenced by the famous rat experiments of McGill University neuroscientist Michael Meaney, demonstrating that high - grooming rat mothers, who rush to lick and groom pups after they are handled by researchers, tend to raise offspring that are bolder, more alert, more curious and longer - living.

Rats raised by less affectionate moms have deficits in all these areas — but they do perform better in extremely stressful situations.

Like the rat test before the water is raised, participants are first trained to drive to a specific location, marked by a lavender box, in a virtual countryside, which includes landmarks such as mountains, lakes, and the sun.

The chemical, described here today at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, raised the metabolic rate of rats by 30 % — equivalent to a weight loss of nearly 3 kilograms per month in people.

Nestler: That's right, and that's been demonstrated experimentally in these rats, that if you take a rat, for example, that's been raised by a low - licking mother, and do something to it — it could be a medication, it could be behavioral change — then you can cause a behavioral switch in that animal so that it now behaves as if it had a high - licking mother.

For example, KBs were recently reported to act as neuroprotective agents by raising ATP levels and reducing the production of reactive oxygen species in neurological tissues, 80 together with increased mitochondrial biogenesis, which may help to enhance the regulation of synaptic function.80 Moreover, the increased synthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids stimulated by a KD may have a role in the regulation of neuronal membrane excitability: it has been demonstrated, for example, that polyunsaturated fatty acids modulate the excitability of neurons by blocking voltage-gated sodium channels.81 Another possibility is that by reducing glucose metabolism, ketogenic diets may activate anticonvulsant mechanisms, as has been reported in a rat model.82 In addition, caloric restriction per se has been suggested to exert neuroprotective effects, including improved mitochondrial function, decreased oxidative stress and apoptosis, and inhibition of proinflammatory mediators, such as the cytokines tumour necrosis factor - α and interleukins.83 Although promising data have been collected (see below), at the present time the real clinical benefits of ketogenic diets in most neurological diseases remain largely speculative and uncertain, with the significant exception of its use in the treatment of convulsion diseases.

In the case of the rats raised by good mothers, their brain genes expressed to a high degree for traits like self - confidence, sociability, and resistance to stress.

When your friendly CC scientist informs you that your are scheduled to freeze to death in your home for the crime of the greed perpetrated by your ancestors, take solace in the likelihood that the moderately paid overworked burgeoning middle class worker in the developing economies couldn't care a rat's because he's too busy raising a family and renovating his 2nd investment residence from wood heating into coal stove retro.

When researchers have cross-fostered rat pups — assigned them to be raised by adoptive mothers — they have found strong evidence for the power of affectionate care.

Rats raised by highly responsive mothers show less stress reactivity as adults (Francis et al 1999; Meaney 2001).