Sentences with phrase «research in rodents»

Although research in rodents supports this hypothesis, human research has been hampered by inconsistency in the types of adverse early environments studied and an inability to identify causal effects.

Moreover, preclinical research in rodents suggested that probiotics produce antidepressant and anxiolytic effects by beneficially affecting neural systems (noradrenaline) and normalizing corticosterone release and concentrations of inflammatory biomarkers (44, 45).

Preliminary research in rodents and human beings suggests that the behavioral consequences of an inflammatory microbiome can be offset by the administration of beneficial microbes.

Research in rodents suggested Epicatechin demonstrated an ability to suppress a protein in the body, myostatin, which prevents the increase of muscle size and differentiation.

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This webinar will discuss the differences between these two types of lab animal diets and how they can affect different aspects of oncology research in rodents.

Previous research in rodents and humans has shown that electrical activity surges in the brain right after the heart stops, then goes flat after a few seconds.

Research in rodents, along with imaging studies in new mothers, are finding areas of the brain that could be involved in postpartum depression.

The Manchester research in rodents, funded by the British Heart Foundation, shows molecular changes in the heart's pacemaker occur in response to exercise training.

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

Previous research in rodent disease models has shown that transplanted oligodendrocyte precursor cells derived from embryonic stem cells and from human fetal brain tissue can successfully create myelin sheaths around nerve cells, sometimes leading to dramatic improvements in symptoms.

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When the committee realized that Buffalo had no real plan for dealing with rodents, it researched what was being done in cities such as Rochester and New York.

In 1990, the International Rice Research Institute held an international workshop simply called «Rats in Rice,» which assembled rodent experts from around the globIn 1990, the International Rice Research Institute held an international workshop simply called «Rats in Rice,» which assembled rodent experts from around the globin Rice,» which assembled rodent experts from around the globe.

Using gene editing to create rodents that are ideal research models could narrow the genetic divide between humans and their animal stand - ins.

«Our research shows that focusing surveillance on viruses in bats, rodents and non-human primates (a «SMART surveillance approach), and understanding what's disrupting these species» ecology is the best strategy to predict and prevent local outbreaks and pandemic disease,» Daszak continued.

An inflammatory protein that triggers a pregnant mouse's immune response to an infection or other disease appears to cause brain injury in her fetus, but not the premature birth that was long believed to be linked with such neurologic damage in both rodents and humans, new Johns Hopkins - led research suggests.

Advocates are pushing to enrich the lives of rodents and fish in the lab, but critics worry about the impact on research

But for reasons unknown, it works: in 50 years of research on the rodents, none has ever spontaneously developed cancer.

The Johns Hopkins Medicine neuroscientists who conducted the research say that the compound — previously shown to block cocaine craving in the brains of rodents — delivers antidepressant effects to mice within hours instead of weeks or months, like currently available antidepressants.

But regulations don't preclude animal shipments, and damage from escaped rodents «has never been reported in the history of aviation,» says a spokesperson for the European Animal Research Association (EARA) in London.

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.

After testing StimDust on the benchtop, the research team implanted it in a live rodent to test it in a realistic environment.

Dr Kristensen recommends that an inter-disciplinary approach be taken to address this, «by combining epidemiological data from human studies with more experimental research on models, such as rodents, it may be possible to firmly establish this link and determine how it happens, so that pregnant women in pain can be successfully treated, without risk to their unborn children.»

Using rodent models of opiate addiction, Dr. Laviolette's research has shown that opiates affect pathways of associative memory formation in multiple ways, both at the level of anatomy (connections between neurons) and at the molecular levels (how molecules inside the brain affect these connections).

The lab of co-author Dr. Robert Bast Jr., an expert in ovarian cancer and vice president for translational research at MD Anderson, inserted gel - bound carbon nanotubes into the ovaries of rodents to mimic the accumulations that are expected for nanotubes linked to special antibodies that recognize tumor cells.

To date, the only animal research on the neurological effects of space radiation has been done in rodents.

But recent research led by Simone Immler of the University of Sheffield in England has turned up unexpected cooperation among some rodents» sperm, which latch together via hook - shaped heads in hordes of up to 100 and barrel egg - ward together, like a knot of football players rumbling toward the end zone.

Karim Nader, a behavioral neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, called the new research «promising» for treating addiction, adding that he doesn't know of a one - time treatment that causes rodents to stop taking drugs for long periods of time.

Although the precise role of neurogenesis in memory is still controversial, more than a decade of research has demonstrated that boosting neurogenesis with exercise and antidepressants such as Prozac can increase rodents» ability to learn new information about places and events.

The paper, by S.S. Karuppagounder at Burke Medical Research Institute in White Plains, N.Y., and colleagues was titled, «Therapeutic targeting of oxygen - sensing prolyl hydroxylases abrogates ATF4 - dependent neuronal death and improves outcomes after brain hemorrhage in several rodent models.»

Towards this, researchers from the Leibniz Institute on Aging — Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena, Germany — together with colleagues from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin, and the Institute of General Zoology at University Duisburg - Essen — have compared genetic data from 17 rodent species.

During panel discussions Sept. 18 at 6, 7 and 8 a.m. PDT (9, 10 and 11 a.m. EDT), scientists and researchers will discuss the various science and research studies, including RapidScat, 3 - D printing in Zero - G, technology to measure bone density, and model organism research using rodents, fruit flies and plants.

Knowing that rats» faces can tell another rat how they're feeling will of course lead to more questions about using the rodents — or other animals — in biomedical research.

Several researchers say the center is benefiting from hard lessons learned from Tropical Storm Allison, which in 2001 breached aging dykes at Texas Medical Center and flooded hospital basements, killing thousands of research rodents and thawing frozen tissue samples.

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the University of Manitoba and St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre in Canada, have identified a molecular signaling pathway that, when blocked, promotes sensory neuron growth and prevents or reverses peripheral neuropathy in cell and rodent models of type 1 and 2 diabetes, chemotherapy - induced neuropathy and HIV.

New research finds that microbes living in the rodent gut control an enzyme that regulates fat uptake and storage.

NASA Space Life and Physical Sciences and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) developed the Rodent Research - 1 spaceflight experiments.

Also, research in other animal models, such as rodents, has shown anesthesia exposure early in life can lead to cell death in the brain and cognitive impairments.

NASA will host a prelaunch panel discussion at 8 a.m. PDT Sept. 18, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, featuring scientists and researchers who will discuss various science and research studies, including the four Ames - supported payloads to study model organism research using yeast, rodents, fruit flies and plants.

Specifically, the repeat elements discovered during the earlier research belonged to the SINEB2 class, which is present only in rodent genomes.

In one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.

The research from the University of Sydney's School of Life and Environmental Sciences found there could be decreases in the cover of the dominant plant, spinifex, and a resulting decrease in seeding — and that introduced cats and foxes pose one of the major threats to seed - eating rodents.

Research has shown that giving TMAO to rodents promotes atherosclerosis and that humans with higher concentrations of TMAO in the bloodstream are at increased risk of developing heart disease.

A rodent in a maze is a staple — even a stereotype — of experimental psychology research.

Through these endeavors and my current research program, I am actively engaged in fostering collaborations with academic, non-profit and industry partners to conduct large - scale rodent behavioral evaluations and preclinical studies.

A team led by parasitologist Stefan Kappe at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle in Washington gave a rodent version of this «genetically attenuated parasite,» or GAP, to mice and showed that they were completely protected when later infected with an unmodified — or wild - type — version of the same Plasmodium strain.

Emory's Donald (Tig) Rainnie and his research team use freely moving rodent models to examine the effects of DBS on neural circuits thought to be disrupted in depression.

Rodent models in arterial hypertension research.

Male or female (5 - 6 wks old) wild type and genetically modified mice (as required for individual investigator's protocols) will be fed a high fat high sucrose diet (from Research Diets ranging in fat from 45 - 58 % of calories as fat, 26 - 39 % carbohydrate (sucrose) and 16 % protein or control diets (10 % fat, 73 % carbohydrate, 16.4 % protein or rodent chow) for up to 16 weeks.

PNP Therapeutics, Inc. — a company based on a gene - therapy technology developed by scientists at Southern Research Institute and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)-- has found an approach that has abolished otherwise unmanageable human cancers in preclinical rodent studies.