Sentences with phrase «test rats»

But this is no laboratory test rat run or competitive race.

Their team blocked neurogenesis in the hippocampus — a seat of memory — with targeted irradiation, and then tested the rats for their ability to become addicted to cocaine.

I am glad that the healthcare system is not run this way, because it would be largely populated with unqualified wannabes with a pulse due to fail before they have learned much about their profession as they experiment on their patients like newbie lab workers let loose in an anything - goes lab testing rats for disease control... and quitting because most of the rats die before their careers die.

That result diverges from prior research suggesting that slashing the caloric intake of test rats, mice, and monkeys substantially increases their longevity.

Collier then began testing rats with the tricyclic antidepressant nortriptyline and found that it indeed was able to decrease the amount of abnormal protein that can build up in the brain.

«When we blocked these unusual AMPA receptors with a drug before testing the rats, we reduced their craving almost to normal levels,» Wolf says.

The first studies of BPA toxicity in the 1980s tested rats at high levels of exposure (50 milligrams of BPA per kilogram of body weight per day).

Anthony Trewavas of the University of Edinburgh, UK, adds that in any case, there should be at least as many controls as test rats — there were only 20 of the former and 80 of the latter — to show how variably tumours appear.

When they then tested the rats» pain thresholds, they were similar to those typical of sunburn.

If the article is to compare and test rats to human babies then I wouldn't see a problem bringing in the fact how animals treat their young and compare!

To test the rats» propensity for risk, the researchers adopted a gambling task used by psychologists to study risk - taking in people.

Test rats that ingested large amounts of sucrose and lard to combat stress developed potbellies within four days.

Using implanted electrodes, the scientists eavesdropped on the hippocampi of their test rats.

He created additional images to present to his test rats by airbrushing the photos so that the rat's face, body, or both were blurred.

Another approach was to give a test rat or mouse one drug to make it crazy — anxious, depressed, hyperactive — and then test the candidate drug quickly before the first one wore off.

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