Sentences with phrase «such animal studies»

Still, a question remains: Are such animal studies relevant to humans?

Not exact matches

One widely cited study from 1995 estimated that ruminant animals (such as cows, sheep, and deer) can produce between 250 to 500 liters of methane a day because of how their digestive system works.

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?

In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.

Neither Goldsmith's weird workshop nor Rex's rhetoric qualify as humane study because neither project believes in such a thing: «Wasting Time on the Internet» is a theoretical paean to artlessness, and Animal Rhetorics calls unequivocally for the end of human distinctiveness.

Carrageenan is such an efficient inflammatory agent and carcinogen, it is widely used with laboratory animals to study the molecular signals involved in cancer and anti-inflammatory drugs.

«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.

Scores of animal and human studies show that early life stress, such as severe early social deprivation, leads to long - term changes in the brain, cognitive and social problems, and heightened susceptibility to anxiety, depression, and drug abuse in adulthood.

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.

He also stresses that, «Animal studies have linked the combination of stress and lack of sleep to behavioural problems in teenage years... and changes to the brain brought on by stress hormones may make it more difficult to form relationships later on, leading to problems such as promiscuity.»

The two villages already have formed their own committee to study environmental issues, such as how the projects affect animal and plant life.

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.

In some cases outliers can be excluded for good reasons, such as animal or human volunteer had a certain underlying condition that interfered with your study.

Previous studies of animal speed have focused only on certain groups of animals, such as mammals.

Such reactions affect the rodents» behaviour and potentially confound the results of animal studies, the study suggests.

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.

Studies involving such massive data sets are «a whole different animal,» he says.

Using his new technique to study wild animals, Amos has found that inbreeding could be more important in determining an individual's chances of survival than random factors such as environmental change.

But he adds that future studies should take into account additional variables such as whether the animals are active at day or night and what the species's habitat is like.

Most studies have concluded that sea animals with calcified shells or skeletons, such as starfish, will suffer as carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels dissolves in the sea, making the water more acidic and destroying the calcium carbonate on which the creatures depend.

In a study published last month, he and his colleagues suggest that oxygen levels were already high enough to support simple animals, such as sponges, hundreds of millions of years before they actually appeared.

Studies of animals such as rats, guinea pigs, sheep, cats, ferrets and primates have shown that this so - called lordotic posture, in which the lower spine is curved towards the belly, can signal the readiness of females to mate.

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.

Nath is studying sleep in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, but whenever he presented his work at research conferences, other scientists scoffed at the idea that such a simple animal could sleep.

«Animal studies have found that males have more of the receptors that cannabis works on in parts of the brain important in short term memory, such as the prefrontal cortex.

«Consumer insight, such as provided by this study, is important for a successful positioning and marketing of insects or insect protein in Western societies, either as a food for human consumption or as a protein source in animal feed.

The ability to study such complex neurological responses in a simple animal like the worm helps scientists understand the more complex systems that exist in humans.

Whales and dolphins could provide a useful model for research into such impacts, largely because their sounds are relatively easy to study: They are among the loudest noises any animal has ever made, reaching as much as 188 decibels in the blue whale.

It also makes it simpler to study more exotic creatures (beyond the standard flies and mice), such as animals like Parhyale or butterflies.

Perhaps hominids used these stones to break bones, but the new study doesn't rule out other possibilities, such as trampling by animals at locations where the bones may have originated, he says.

But Asnis notes that there have been reassuring precedents in studying depressive behavior in animals, such as work with serotonin and tryptophan.

«Such biases, conscious or unconscious, can make candidate medical treatments look better than they actually are, the authors of the analysis warn, and lead to eye - catching results that can't be replicated in larger or more rigorous animal studies — or in human trials.»

Peter Franek says that the scientists clearly were able to make out the calls of the fin whales to such detail that it might be useful even to the biologists who wish to study movement and sound communication patterns of these majestic animals.

Ecologist John Orrock, who studies how animals balance the need to protect themselves from predation with other needs, such as eating and mating, hatched the idea for this research when he was studying snails in a California grassland.

Ojima says, «Once we have drug candidates that are ready to go into animal models, preclinical studies, toxicology, and such things, it really takes companies to do that.»

The researchers read all of those studies, looking for things such as appropriate control groups and whether a sufficient number of animals had been used.

Fossilisation does not preserve a dinosaur's muscles, but educated guesses about how they worked can be made by studying animals alive today, such as ostriches.

But our study shows that we also have to include the active biological processes, such as animal migrations, to predict and calculate the ocean's ability to absorb anthropogenic emissions of CO2,» says Professor Katherine Richardson of the University of Copenhagen, who is also one of the authors behind the study.

Marshall suggests that it also emphasizes the importance of considering broader environmental contexts, such as predation risk, as well as the perceptual abilities of natural observers like predators in studies of animal behavior.

Taking into account other recent studies, such as the finding that newly hatched domestic chicks show a preference for consonant intervals, this report lends support to the idea that some features of human musical systems may be based, at least in part, on biological principles that are shared with other animals such as songbirds.

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.

The acacia ants she studies, Crematogaster mimosae, use their fearsome bite to defend their host trees against large animals such as elephants and giraffes that eat the trees» leaves.

Assistant Professor Lin Qingsong, who is from the Department of Biological Sciences under the NUS Faculty of Science and is one of the scientists who led the study, explained, «Many people may not realise that more human lives are lost to the tiny mosquito, more specifically malaria parasites, each year as compared to ferocious animals such as lions and sharks.

Radovitzky says this reasoning stems from studies of «blast lung» — blast - induced injuries such as tearing, hemorrhaging, and swelling of the lungs, where it was found that mass matters: The larger an animal is, the more resilient it may be to lung damage.

The study suggests there may be «many more such instances of misidentification of animal species» — especially considering that the sunfish is relatively large and hard to miss — says Byrappa Venkatesh, a geneticist at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, who was not involved in the new research.

The researchers now want to study whether the signal molecules in higher animals, such as mice, have the same effect.

Study participants were then asked to rate how much they agree with a series of statements about killing animals, such as, «It is often necessary to control for animal overpopulation through different means, such as hunting or euthanasia,» or, «An experiment should never cause the killing of animals.»

Zooarchaeological studies of the most popular domestic animals such as cattle, sheep, goats and pigs have demonstrated repeated introductions as well as failures of new species in different regions of the world.