Sentences with phrase «say their animal study»

Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers say their animal study, published online in Endocrinology, provides the strongest evidence to date on the mechanism of this ancient Chinese therapy in chronic stress.
Savitz said animal studies have shown that the healing effects of stem cells can occur as early as a week but cautioned it is too early to attribute Henrich's improvement to the stem cell treatment.

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But again, the FDA says the levels of the chemical in foods like fries or crackers are much lower than acrylamide levels linked to cancer in animal studies.
The study, conducted by Eli Lilly's (lly) Elanco Animal Health division at the request of the National Chicken Council, said that if one - third of U.S. broilers switched to slower growing breeds, that would mean 33.5 billion pounds more feed, 7.6 million acres / year more land, 28.5 billion pounds of manure, and 5.1 billion additional gallons of water.
A Technomic study on college foodservice shows some of the unique challenges today's operators face: 49 percent of college and university students avoid some type of meat or animal products; more students are price - sensitive off - campus (58 percent) than on - campus (46 percent) and 54 percent of students say it's important to eat healthy and pay attention to nutrition.
«Nutritionists, political economists and epidemiologists at Oxford will study how animal foods affect health and the environment and they will then work with Sainsbury's to present those findings in ways people can understand,» said Sarah Molton, head of Our Planet, Our Health.
«In the past, studies have shown that the combination of resistance exercise with consumption of animal - derived protein (such as whey, casein, eggs, meat) has had a different effect on muscle growth than when resistance exercise was paired with plant - based protein such as soy,» said Dr. Jaeger, one of the studies authors.
«In the past, studies have shown that the combination of resistance exercise with consumption of animal - derived protein (such as whey, casein, eggs, meat) has had a different effect on muscle growth than when resistance exercise was paired with plant - based protein such as soy,» said Ralf Jaeger, FISSN, CISSN, MBA.
«In the past, studies have shown that the combination of resistance exercise with consumption of animal - derived protein (such as whey, casein, eggs, meat) has had a different effect on muscle growth than when resistance exercise was paired with plant - based protein such soy,» said Dr. Jaeger.
«In animal studies, exercise has been shown to specifically affect the hippocampus, significantly increasing the growth of new neurons and cell survival, enhancing memory and learning, and increasing molecules that are involved in the plasticity of the brain,» Chaddock said.
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.
«We know the animal studies raise concerns, but there aren't human studies showing effects yet... so, when we don't have the evidence, what we recommend is that parents try to err on the side of caution,» she says.
They say a new study found that, when exposed to heat, baby bottles release a chemical that, researchers say, has been linked to obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab animals.
«What this study really does is bring those two streams of research together,» showing that animal personalities are flexible yet also persistent, he says.
We hope that our article will encourage people to undertake these studies so that we can provide solid advice for pregnant women who don't eat much in the way of animal - derived foods,» said Rogne.
That's better for the animals» welfare as well as for study, these scientists say.
«It's the kind of result a lot of people wish wouldn't happen,» says Douglas Wahlsten, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada who has studied how animals react to experimenters.
The findings are interesting, says René Hen, a neuroscientist who studies depression at Columbia University in New York, but «animal models of depression are very imperfect.»
«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.
«Our biggest goal is to support the management of this non-curable disease in an animal that is an economically important resource for the state of Illinois,» says Michelle Green, research assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the animal that is an economically important resource for the state of Illinois,» says Michelle Green, research assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the study.
«Much like the spread of human disease in populated areas, urban centers can foster increases in multiple disease types in wild animalssaid McGraw, senior author of the study.
«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.
Hackett said, «Studies of human immunology are usually not the first choice for research in basic immunology, but it is very important now to understand how humans differ from animal models.»
Senior author Byungkook Lim, an assistant professor in the Neurobiology Section, said the results require much more study and evaluation to be applied to humans with depression, but the new research in animal models provides solid grounding.
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.
This need for energy places hard limits on what animals can do and how big they can be,» said McClain, who was a co-author on the study.
«This study illustrates how little we really know about animals in the deep sea,» says lead author Janet Voight, Associate Curator of Invertebrates at The Field Museum in Chicago.
«Previous studies looked for turbulence or eddies on the scale of the animals» size,» he says, instead of large downward jets.
Dr Loch says the study showed how using techniques and methods commonly employed in dentistry can answer questions with broader implications in the biology and evolution of animal species.
Studies involving such massive data sets are «a whole different animal,» he says.
«We approached this problem many years ago and have seen all kinds of studies, and there isn't anything definitive to say that antibiotics in livestock cause harm to people,» says Richard Carnevale, vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs at the Animal Health Institute, which represents the manufacturers of animal drugs, including those for liveAnimal Health Institute, which represents the manufacturers of animal drugs, including those for liveanimal drugs, including those for livestock.
«The elegant studies here provide proof of concept that targeting LMPTP in the liver improves glucose control and liver insulin signalling in animalssays Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who says that targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for researchers tackling diabetes.
Dr. Julie Wolf, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), senior author of the study said: «In many regions of the world, livestock numbers are changing, and breeding has resulted in larger animals with higher intakes of food.
«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
«Under the microscope, eggs from reproductively young and old animals may look identical, but the environment in which they are growing is completely different,» said lead study author Francesca Duncan, executive director of the Center for Reproductive Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
«Other studies have seen a relationship between tameness and stress responses in animalssaid 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.
That piece isn't new,» says Stephen Fleming, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in the Department of Animal Sciences and the neuroscience program at U of I.
«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.
«It's not so much that the jury is out, but that the jury has been dismissed before the trial has begun,» says Mike Meredith, a neuroscientist at Florida State University in Tallahassee, who studies animal pheromones.
«Before this study, it was not known if it is possible to produce sufficient numbers of these cells and successfully use them to remuscularize damaged hearts in a large animal whose heart size and physiology is similar to that of the human heart,» said Dr. Charles Murry, UW professor of pathology and bioengineering, who led the research team that conducted the experiment.
Our animal ancestors used their noses way more than we do in modern society, says Jessica Freiherr, a neuroscientist at RWTH Aachen University, in Germany, and the author of several studies on human olfaction.
Moreover, getting a better picture of what the virus looks like and understanding its properties through animal testing and studying patients» blood might help vaccine developers pinpoint specific issues, says Pei - Yong Shi, a virologist at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
«They are almost without doubt actual footprints of a bipedally - walking animalsays 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.
«By providing support for these research studies, we hope to generate more definitive answers about how human - animal interaction affects health,» he said.
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.
Hanna Granroth - Wilding, who led the study, said: «Our knowledge of disease in wild animals has tended to focus on the individual, but our study shows that we need to pay more attention to the broader consequences of disease to fully appreciate the role that it plays in wild populations, especially those whose numbers may be under threat.»
«Globally, beef production can be taxing on the environment, leading to high greenhouse gas emissions and land degradation,» said Jason Rowntree, MSU associate professor of animal science, who led the study.
Inhibitory cell - based neuro - therapy is a new approach and has shown promise to date in early animal studies, warranting further development,» says Cory Nicholas, a co-first author.
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