Sentences with phrase «rely on animal studies»

We relied on some animal studies that had been done at the National Institutes of Health.

The entirety of Dr. Mercolas argument relies on animal studies, false pretenses and skewed data.

Not exact matches

Nick Phin, head of respiratory diseases at Public Health England, thinks the study relies too much on animal data.

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.

Ecologists who study plant defenses have long predicted that while mature leaves can rely on physical toughness to thwart hungry insects and other animals, tender young leaves need something extra to protect themselves.

In the past, nutritional scientists have largely relied on studies of animals, small groups of people, and / or petri - dish biochemistry that may not reflect the vagaries of human metabolism, although Willett uses such studies when he deems it appropriate.

It was one of the first research hubs in the world to build transmitters to track and analyze sharks in their natural habitat; previously, researchers relied on scuba diving or catching the animals as a means to study them up close.

Humans don't rely on the sense of smell as much as other animals do, so maybe it isn't surprising that people don't make new odor - sensing cells, says study author Jonas Frisén, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

In order to answer the question if animals are capable of mental time travel, the researchers relied on published experimental studies and matched the results with their model.

Animal studies throughout the last quarter of the 20th century, in which investigators used a cast to restrict exercise after an injury, have revealed that muscular health and functioning rely on regular use.

But while those studies have suggested that animals are able to understand what others see — giving them an advantage in competing for food, for example — they rely on the test subjects» ability to see another's head or eyes, providing so - called «gaze cues.»

That's because most studies on single human brain cells use dead rather than living tissue, and many others rely on cells from common laboratory animals, especially mice.

Relying on the better - functioning side of the body after a stroke can cause brain changes that hinder rehabilitation of the impaired side, according to an animal study published June 3 in The Journal of Neuroscience.

Previous studies of this type relied on microscopic examination of tissue samples from sacrificed animals, but this new approach allows researchers to watch the life or death of cells in real time.

Unlike other animals that might use visual cues, such as size, or perceptional clues, such as spatial location, to determine rank, the monk parakeet appears to rely on other clues - ones that are based on newly acquired social knowledge, the study found.

The most common animal model used to study OSA today is intermittent hypoxia (IH) which relies solely on exposing animals to a decrease in blood oxygen levels.

So, while I usually rely on studies in humans, I am forced to look at the animal data in this circumstance.

That's because people don't study animal behavior, and they rely on simplistic advice on how to manage their dog's behaviors.

A study by The Animal Farm Foundation found that adoptable dogs in shelters and rescues are misidentified at least 75 % of the time when shelter staff and volunteers rely on appearance alone to determine a dog's breed.

Other manufacturers rely on testing facilities that keep animals for this purpose to do the studies for them.