Sentences with phrase «test dogs studied»

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This study highlights the shared genetic etiology of many canine and human genetic disorders, and provides new tools to investigate PRA mechanisms while the beloved dogs benefit from genetic testing.

Darlene Kertes and colleagues tested the commonly held belief that pet dogs provide social support for kids using a randomized controlled study — the gold standard in research.

The study didn't test humans and dogs head to head — I think the dogs might win depending on the odor — but what it shows is the limits of human smell tracking haven't really been investigated.

There, she tested pairs of dogs or wolves in an exercise that has also been used to study cooperative behavior in chimps and bonobos.

One study in dogs is testing rapamycin, the first drug shown to lengthen mouse life spans.

Using a series of touchscreen tests, Lisa Wallis and Friederike Range of the Messerli Research Institute at Vetmeduni Vienna have now studied these domains in pet dogs of varying ages.

The tests were carried out with the financial support of the Swiss Albert Heim Foundation in the Dog Studies group of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

For the study, Range and her colleagues from the Department of Comparative Cognitive Research tested 13 crossbreed dogs raised at the Wolf Science Center in Ernstbrunn.

In total, study director Dr. Juliane Bräuer and her staff tested 48 dogs, 25 of whom had training with the police or a search and rescue team and 23 of whom were family dogs without special training.

If researchers can develop a reliable IQ test for dogs, they can use dogs to study these links while controlling factors like diet and exercise, according to the researchers.

Dogs are immunocompetent, and so were an ideal study subject for testing immunomodulatory cancer therapies.

Ambient levels of PM 2 days before submaximal exercise testing were significantly associated with increased ST - segment depression during the test.17 This finding suggests that air pollution exposure conveys a greater susceptibility to myocardial ischemia, as demonstrated in an experimental study of dogs exposed to CAP.175 These results also offer insight regarding the relationship between exposure to PM and the timing of AMI.11 Significant associations were identified between symptom onset and both acute (levels within 2 hours before symptoms) and subacute (previous - day average concentration) exposures to PM2.5.

In this study (46), the authors were attempting to cause anemia in dogs for experimental purposes rather than test the effect or safety of colloidal silver.

A study by Carroll University, Wisconsin, found that cat owners scored more highly on an intelligence test and were more emotionally sensitive than dog owners.

However, a recent study that tested garlic on dogs showed that it could lead to negative effects when ingested.

Benefits: There is no direct benefit of this study for you or your dog at this time; however, if a genetic association can be identified, a test could be developed that would predict which dogs carry the trait and may pass it on to their offspring and which dogs may develop the disease in their lifetime.

NRDC conducted tests on nine dogs and five cats, as many or more than studies used by the EPA to determine exposure to pesticides from flea collars.

In fact, one study demonstrated that approximately 40 % or more of dogs in these areas may be seropositive (have a positive test result).

A guide dog dropout learned to detect bladder, kidney, and prostate cancer, accurately spotting cancer 95 percent of the time — better than some lab tests used for cancer screenings, according to a study in the European Respiratory Journal that also highlighted four trained dogs that could detect lung cancer with an accuracy of 71 percent while properly ruling out cancer 93 percent of the time.

In the new study, 235 adults, ages 15 to 64, indicated their preference for different dog breeds and also filled out personality tests, among other questionnaires.

These reference standards and limited feeding trials are, like the basic pharmacology and preclinical testing of pharmaceuticals, not perfect, and it is certainly likely that advances in our understanding of dogs» nutritional needs as well as epidemiologic studies of dogs fed commercial diets will uncover changes that need to be made in the formulations of commercial diets.

With the funding, the organization hopes to implement: clinical trials to test new innovative therapies to help save dogs and alleviate dog suffering now, prevention studies related to genetics and canine genome, incorporating lifetime risk, funding of a tumor tissue bank, and establishment of an endowment to guarantee continued research efforts.

Purpose of Study: The primary purpose of this study was to test two investigational medications to determine if either one, or both, work to potentially decrease signs of pain of osteoarthritis in Study: The primary purpose of this study was to test two investigational medications to determine if either one, or both, work to potentially decrease signs of pain of osteoarthritis in study was to test two investigational medications to determine if either one, or both, work to potentially decrease signs of pain of osteoarthritis in dogs.

In fact, recent studies show that doing temperament tests upon intake to a shelter environment are not accurate predictors of the dog's behavior in a home.

According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, just like people...

Estrogens would be expected to have a similar protective role in sexually intact female dogs; unfortunately, too few sexually intact female dogs were available for inclusion in the study to test this hypothesis.

A study done in 2007 tested a single remedy, Belladonna 200C, in ten dogs with idiopathic (no known cause) epilepsy.

Impact of the study: The ability to test for presence of this PICALM insertion may impact dog - breeding decisions and facilitate reduction of SAS disease prevalence in Newfoundland dogs.

Again, while these studies have been performed in test subjects other than dogs, the implications are nevertheless promising.

If dogs received intradermal testing, the test was conducted a minimum of 8 weeks prior to study start

If the dog had received intradermal allergy testing, the test must have been conducted a minimum of 8 weeks prior to study start

One such study will test the effectiveness of a novel intra-ocular drug device to improve the vision and outcome of dogs undergoing cataract surgery.

In the Australian study, while one of the variables tested was whether or not the dogs had received vaccinations, they only measured for vaccines done in the previous 6 weeks.

Important: When choosing a collar it is important not only to give preference to a particular brand, which is time - tested and the experience of other breeders, but also to study the characteristics of the product carefully and take into account age - related features of your dog and its health.

Even from that one study, we really do not know how many dogs were truly free of heartworms - since male worm, immature female worms or female worms sterilized by the doxycycline or the monthly heartworm preventatives that were given would all test negative as well.

As such, in choosing a kit for your dog's DNA, it is often wise to look for substantiating studies that point to the accuracy of the tests being conducted by the provider.

Through canine genetic testing, studies have found that even people in animal - related professions can't accurately identify the breeds in a mixed - breed dog's genealogy.

The Foundation has helped support cancer studies that have led to better treatment for all dogs who have been diagnosed with cancer, have helped with the development of a test that catches lymphoma far earlier than before and also has helped identify genetic causes for lymphoma.

To further back up our assumptions based on our own findings, there was one study of pathogen - related diarrhea 1 that showed 68 % of tested shelter dogs with diarrhea were positive for giardia and 15 % for coccidia.

These DNA — based tests were originally developed to study the basis of human diseases and became available for dogs in 2007.

If you live local to the University of Minnesota, your dog may also be eligible for a single study visit which includes free laboratory tests and $ 50 compensation.

A study on raw diets showed that, despite the fact that 80 % of meat samples were positive for Salmonella, 70 % of the dogs eating that meat tested negative.

In the first phase of their study, they had a male test subject walk alone and with a highly trained therapy dog who would not solicit attention through a park and measured the number of social interactions.

A quarter of the dogs may be removed from the study for «non-nutritional reasons» and data from the dogs removed from the trial does not need to be provided in the results (although dogs who die during the test do require a necropsy and the findings are to be recorded).

Dogs and cats were contaminated with 48 of 70 chemicals tested, including 43 chemicals at higher levels than those typically found in people, according to our study of plastics and food packaging chemicals, heavy metals, fire retardants, and stain - proofing chemicals in pooled samples of blood and urine from 20 dogs and 37 cats collected at a Virginia veterinary cliDogs and cats were contaminated with 48 of 70 chemicals tested, including 43 chemicals at higher levels than those typically found in people, according to our study of plastics and food packaging chemicals, heavy metals, fire retardants, and stain - proofing chemicals in pooled samples of blood and urine from 20 dogs and 37 cats collected at a Virginia veterinary clidogs and 37 cats collected at a Virginia veterinary clinic.

I personally own a dog that has the physical attributes of an American pit bull terrier, but I was wrong with many of the test photos in the study.

It states that any institution that receives tax - payer money and tests on animals, must release them to an animal rescue group at the end of their study, if the dogs are healthy.

Using the quality of «agreeableness» as their metric for assessing the personality types of the study participants, the researchers asked the participants (ranging widely in age) to take personality tests and then identify their favorite types of dogs from a given list.

Breeders have made their dogs available for research in hip and elbow dysplasia; sebaceous adenitis (a skin disease); copper toxicosis; progressive retinal atrophy (an eye disease); epilepsy; cancer; and more — not only by providing study subjects but by submitting radiographs and other diagnostic tests to various health registries.

In this study, researchers looked at false test results in dogs entering shelters in the United States, covering areas in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, New York, Colorado, and California.