Sentences with phrase «then tested the animals»

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In 2013, India banned all animal testing, then banned even the import of beauty products that engage in animal testing.

This sweeping anthropocentric position then leads him to the conclusion that it is permissible, if not desirable, to breed and keep animals for our food, work, and pleasure, and he approves, in particular, of their use in medical research and even in the testing of cosmetics that are to be marketed.

United have often been described as a» wounded animal» in similarly testing times, but back then they knew how to bite back.

I'm going to test Arm & Hammer Baking Soda as a stuffed animal cleaner by sprinkling the animals with baking soda, waiting 15 minutes and then brushing off the residue.

They then tested the contributions of samples from breast milk as well as individual molecules in both animal and cellular models of infection, measuring the length of time until resolution.

The animal's corpse was then sent it to the Westchester County Department of Health for rabies and other testing.

The first activist then jokes that he or she is «gonna run some medical experiments on them» before the second adds: «We could use them as substitutes for animals when testing.»

As for the skin version of the test, animals» fur is shaved and then several layers of skin are removed with sticky tape before technicians apply test substances and cover over the abraded area with plastic sheeting.

Still used today by some companies, the test involves applying a small amount of the substance under study to an animal's eye or skin for several hours, and then observing whether or not irritation occurs over the following week or two.

Even as researchers test these findings in animals, Nabel's team is exploring an intriguing possibility: adding the Ebola virus membrane protein to a harmless virus that could then carry therapeutic genes specifically to endothelial cells.

Researchers performed a meta - analysis of literature examining patients with NASH, and then tested their hypothesis using an animal model, which enabled them to eliminate possible confounders of the clinical data, such as antibiotic exposure and medical comorbidities.

The next step is to add nerve cells to make the muscles contract, then test these in animals.

But vaccines that only contained HIV's surface protein looked lackluster in animal and test tube studies, and then proved worthless in large - scale clinical trials.

Finally, the researchers tested this circuitry in live animals, artificially turning on the motor neurons in anesthetized mice and then looking to see how the auditory cortex responded.

Only then was Deisseroth ready to test optogenetics in a living animal.

The rats were then divided into eight treatment groups of 15 animals each to test slightly differing combinations of chemicals that would allow the precursor cells to take on their desired roles.

Yong, a neuroscientist, initially had the idea to test the acne medicine in an animal model since minocycline has many anti-inflammatory properties that he thought could be useful in treating MS. Soon after obtaining successful research results, in studies also supported by the MS Society of Canada and MSSRF, Yong teamed up with Metz who led the transition into a pilot clinical trial, then a Phase 2, and finally the definitive Phase 3 trial.

Participants then went through five standard cognitive tests involving immediate recall of a list of presented words, delayed recall of those words later, forward and backward recall of long lists of numbers, and a verbal fluency test in which they listed as many animals as possible without repetition, the use of proper nouns or descriptors.

Next steps would be to test dosing and stability in animal models and then in humans, a process that could take two to five years, Gale said.

Then he let in the sea lion being tested and timed how long it took for each animal to find the fish from one day to the next.

The agency then lowers that dosage by a factor of 10 to account for possible variations in response between the most sensitive test animal and humans.

«If the in vitro tests had been good predictors, then particles that did well in the dish would also have done well in the animals, and particles that did poorly in the dish would also have done poorly in the animals.

The most promising active ingredients were then tested on model animals: ursolic acid, a waxy natural chemical found in apple peels and rosemary; curcumin, the bright yellow plant compound in turmeric; and resveratrol, a natural compound common to red grapes or berries.

The new study demonstrated the advantages of an in vivo DNA barcoding technique, which attaches small snippets of DNA to different lipid - based nanoparticles that are then injected into living animals; more than a hundred nanoparticles can be tested in a single animal.

Traditionally, researchers then disable or «knock out» the gene in lab - grown cells or animals to test their hypothesis, a time - consuming and laborious process.

For the test, the animals feasted on either delicious grain or sweet sucrose, and were then given access to a lever.

This has led to a demand for people who can understand data collection techniques and analyze vast amounts of data, categorize the data sets, develop models to test hypotheses that can then be used to develop drugs, and test potential candidates in animals.

Then they administered a shot of the bubbly mix into test animals.

Then, in 1885, Pasteur was testing a rabies vaccine in animals when a peasant boy arrived on his doorstep and said that he had been bitten by a rabid dog.

Looking further ahead the research will expand to include animal testing and then a series of clinical trials in humans.

The researchers then tested the capacity of the modified cells to kill human multiple myeloma cells in laboratory studies and an animal model.

DiChristina: Well you can set them to work then back on the ground and then see what the worms do, so in this way you can directly test what the animals are doing, you know, whether they interact with each other.

I had my window closed.I lost some of my hearing and ended up with Tinnitus that I have had for 3 years now.I have had all the tests and scans nothing has helped.My life has changed, I would not wish this on anybody.This man better go back to school or better yet try some ringing in your head for a year or so and then tell me about being a Lab animal.

The research team then tested RMC - 1 in cultured human airway epithelial cells and mouse models of asthma (via injection into the animals» peritoneal cavities).

The rejection of the tumor then worked in 80 percent of the test animals.

But the idea of «three - parent babies» was so controversial that the FDA told researchers at the time to stop such tests, and since then experiments have been limited to animals.

At this stage the fastest way to find out what any specific change does is to try it, first in animal studies, and then confirming in human tests.

They will then test in vivo (in animals) their combination of drugs on the best mouse model available to study lipofuscin - mediated retinal degeneration.

Since these findings uncovered a link between p75NTR and metabolism, the research team tested — first in a petri dish and then in animal models — whether there was also a link between p75NTR and the circadian clock.

These 36 students who did not participate in the earlier test then had pick letters and numbers out of an array within a designated amount of time, finding that the subjects who viewed the baby animals were able to concentrate more and perform better, increasing accuracy by 16 percent and speed by 13 percent, while performance.

Once a drug has gone through animal testing and continues to look promising for humans, it has to go through extensive testing to make sure it's not toxic — first to animals and then to humans.

Once a scientist identifies a drug that can be repurposed using the database, the drug's potential effect must be then tested on a new disease, both in animal models and human clinical trials.

Their hope is that drug candidates that get as far as animal testing and clinical trials will then be more likely to be safe and effective.

Different memory tests can then be used to look at thinking changes in these experimentally treated animals, which helps us understand the ways that thinking changes in schizophrenia and ways to treat it.

The researchers will then test their compounds in animal models to confirm that, upon chronic dosing, they are well tolerated and effectively lower tau levels in the brain.

They plan to continue studies to find a candidate that inhibits FATP4 and then later conduct experiments in animals to test the viability of the candidate.

In the test, the animals feasted on one of the types of food (either the sugar or the grain) and then exposed to a lever.

Using a proprietary extraction technique, they isolated it and then tested its effects, first in animals and then in humans.

It may be, then, that a certain level of vitamin E deficiency is needed to «activate» some of the harmful effects of smoking, and that poor - quality animal fats and a few helpings of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils are the best way to achieve this, but that fats that weren't tested in this study such as high - quality butter or relatively saturated but vitamin E-rich virgin palm oil may provide the most superior protection.

The study followed 1,061 children, who were tested at the age of 3 for self - control (the length of time they were able to refrain from playing with a fun toy after being asked not to) and then again at the age of 5 for delayed gratification (the classic Marshmallow Test, which I've written about before, except using M&M s, animal crackers or pretzels: they could have a small amount anytime, or a larger amount if they waited 3.5 minutes).