Sentences with phrase «testing animals at»

However, these studies have been limited by only testing animals at younger ages; older animals have rarely been examined.

The researchers, who evaluated the BSCB in test animals at seven and 30 days after stroke modeling, found that ischemic stroke damaged the gray and white matter in the cervical spinal cord on both sides of the spinal column, based on analysis of electron microscope images.

Not exact matches

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

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It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal laboratory or, at the very least, on a computer model.

Well, I'm looking at ingredients and testing on animals and you'd be shocked.

so often they just look at potential markers — but those don't always equate to diseases)- what was the health of the those being studied - I'm assuming the test subjects were people, but other studies done on animal subjects might not be as reliable as those done on humans.

Public feelings about animal testing have led many manufacturers and retailers to advertise their «cruelty - free» credentials - Anita Roddick's «Body Shop» chain was at the forefront of this movement.

But Sustainable, which is working on a system that turns animal or plant waste into fuel to power equipment, is doing all its construction and testing at space its leasing from a power tool company in Saugerties.

Researchers at the European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing developed five different tests that use human blood cells to detect contaminants in drugs that cause a potentially dangerous fever response.

Mike Stanyard at Cornell University in Ithaca is using the FAA's site in rural New York to test an autonomous plane (pictured) designed to help farmers track their crops and animals.

With the harvested follicles, investigators such as James V. («Vince») Gruber, global director of research and development at Lonza Consumer Care, can test the effectiveness of new hair and skin products without relying on laboratory animals.

It infected four people at an animal facility in Reston, Virginia, in November 1989, but no one fell ill; the infections were detectable only through blood tests.

The researchers tested what the webs could catch in the most direct way possible: by lobbing different prey animals at them from half a metre away.

Rapamycin, an antibiotic and immunosuppressant approved for use about 15 years ago, has drawn extensive interest for its apparent ability — at least in laboratory animal tests — to emulate the ability of dietary restriction in helping animals to live both longer and healthier.

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.

I began to find it increasingly difficult to reconcile using animals to test drugs at work while showering lavish attention on my pet dog at home.

At the patient safety charity, Safer Medicines, we believe this goal is most likely to be achieved through a greatly increased focus on human, rather than animal, biology in preclinical drugs tests.

A new test detects virtually any virus that infects people and animals, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where the technology was developed.

McDonald is working with medicinal chemists at Vanderbilt to develop more selective and potent PGD inhibitors for testing in animal models, with the ultimate goal of moving these inhibitors into clinical trials for pancreatic cancer patients.

The device, which Frias is testing in animals during a postdoc at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management in Porto, has yielded six peer - reviewed papers, a patent, and increasing attention from the medical community.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

Because of constraints at the hyena facilities, one to four animals were tested at a time.

Only one test — in which Wilson simulated a predator by squirting water at the animals — revealed a personality shift; a tadpole that responded by freezing in place for a long time was just as likely to become a frog that resumed normal activities right away.

Now Colin Butter and colleagues at the Institute for Animal Health in Compton, UK, have tested that vaccine, and a similar one made of a different live virus, in chickens (Vaccine, doi.org/jz6).

This past spring, Peersen received a new National Institutes of Health grant to continue testing the genetic modification in live animals, in partnership with researchers at the University of Wisconsin.

After college he had attended veterinary school at Purdue and practiced animal medicine until he realized that most pet owners could not afford the tests necessary to diagnose the conditions that interested him.

The response we've seen in flies to low doses of lithium is very encouraging and our next step is to look at targeting GSK - 3 in more complex animals with the aim of eventually developing a drug regime to test in humans.

Ding joined the faculty at UCR in December of 2000 to test the other half of his hypothesis: does the B2 protein of Flock house virus suppress RNAi in its animal host?

Biologists now think they understand why: In laboratory tests, torn bay leaves turned out to be very toxic to fleas, researchers reported last week at a meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in Carbondale, Illinois.

Researchers at Scripps and other institutions began testing blood samples from these individuals in animals and found that they were producing broadly neutralizing antibodies capable of eliminating most of the HIV varieties, says Crotty.

• Altweb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web Site at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

As Markovic is presenting at the CNS meeting, the team is starting animal testing of a new system and will test in humans sometime this year.

The paper is «a big step forward» because running such tests in the wild «is exceptionally challenging,» says Alex Thornton, an animal cognition researcher at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

The method must now be tested on larger animals before it can be tried in humans, but the hope is that tissue - engineered repairs for congenital diaphragm malformations will be at least as effective as current surgical options with the added benefit of growing with children throughout their lives.

At night, while their free - living counterparts were flying, the captive animals were fully awake and performed normally on learning tests, which suggests that the birds don't sleepwalk during their migrations.

The chip's designers at Harvard University hope that it will supplement animal testing in drug trials.

To test whether the animals experienced regret, Redish and Steiner watched the rats keenly on the occasions when they left one restaurant hungry only to wait even longer at the next one.

«Now that we know the mice can be vulnerable to Zika infection, we can use the animals to test vaccines and therapeutics — and some of those studies are already underway — as well as to understand the pathogenesis of the virus,» said senior author Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at Washington University.

The other, a live but weakened form of the virus that was developed at UTMB, is being tested in animals.

«Because we have this 24 - hour turnaround time with the new test, there are veterinary hospitals and clinics that can test and get results rapidly and make sure they are not exposing other animals to Salmonella,» said Belinda Thompson, assistant clinical professor at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center and a senior author of the paper.

«But in the wolf tests, both high - and low - ranking animals had access» and were able to chow down at the same time.

«This paper provides novel evidence for memory impairment in large animals that have brains similar to humans,» says Paul Buckmaster, a neurobiologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, whom Cook consulted about how to do memory tests.

The probe was tested on concentrated water samples from an area on Florida's East Coast where manatees congregate, in the Florida Panhandle, where they are less numerous, and at locations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Lake Ossa, Cameroon, where observers sometimes see the animals in the water.

Because we produce our own antiserum at our animal facilities, and purify and test each antibody in our laboratories, we can guarantee the quality of every product.

Chief Scientific Officer at Avacta Animal Health, Kevin Slater, said: «The collaboration we have with the University of Leicester's Department of Mathematics is having a dramatic impact on the types of new tests that we can offer to vets and their owners.

«Testing the idea that nonhuman [animals] can have minds has been the Rubicon that skeptics have again and again said no nonhuman has ever, or will ever, cross,» says Brian Hare, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the study.

In 2010 the late biologist Roland C. Anderson and his colleagues at the Seattle Aquarium tested recognition in giant Pacific octopuses in an experiment that involved a «nice» keeper who regularly fed eight animals and a «mean» keeper who touched them with a bristly stick.

On Tuesday, an ethics committee at WHO declared it was ethical under the special circumstance to use unapproved Ebola treatments such as ZMapp, a mix of antibodies that has been tested in animals and was given to two U.S. health care workers who fell sick in Liberia.

A landmark new study, led by scientists at Bowdoin and the California Academy of Sciences, explores the fascinating, little - known natural history of the face mite species Demodex folliculorum, using genetic testing to link the microscopic animal's evolution to our own ever - evolving human story.