Sentences with phrase «untreated animals»

Eventually coma and then death occur in untreated animals.

But in dogs and the wild animals that heartworms live in, that pool of untreated animals is very large.

Under these circumstances, environmental transfer can protect them against fleas developing from untreated animals.

The old mice also performed significantly better than untreated animals on tests of learning and memory.

Indoor cats can even be at risk of tick bites, especially if they come in contact with other untreated animals.

The hypoxia - treated rodents lived more than 6 months, compared with about 2 months for untreated animals, Mootha and his colleagues report online today in Science.

Untreated animals continued unfazed, hoping cocaine would eventually come out.

After four weeks of treatment with AICAR, the mice that took it could run on treadmills nearly 1.5 times as long as untreated animals — and without any training.

A combination of fostamatinib and paclitaxel reduced tumor size in six mice by up to 87 percent, compared with no shrinkage in six untreated animals after three weeks.

In summary, no significant differences were identified between treated and untreated animals when the following were tested (by Chi squared analysis and Fisher's exact test): (1) Number of animals positive for B. burgdorferi by PCR; (2) number of animals positive for B. burgdorferi by xenodiagnosis; and (3) number of animals positive for B. burgdorferi by RT - PCR, either directly or by analysis of in vivo culture tissue.

Not only does your dog's breath smell from the accumulation of bacteria and infection, but untreated animals often suffer from cardiac disease and kidney problems caused by the oral bacteria travelling through the bloodstream and infecting various body organs and systems.

But the scientists noticed something odd when they ran control experiments in which they injected the hydrogel without added cells: Some of the animals» hearts still showed improvement compared with untreated animals.

Muscle fibers (magenta) from mice that got the therapy (right) were bigger than fibers from untreated animals (left).

Meanwhile, untreated animals continued to gain weight.

It is important to treat all animals in the household, as untreated animals will serve as a source of reinfestation for treated animals.

Throughout the course of the experiment, the rats getting capsaicin gained 8 percent less weight than untreated animals, and just a little more weight than rats eating a normal diet.

The mice died a few months earlier than untreated animals.

In mice given chemotherapy drugs, MIS - treated animals were left with more primordial follicles than untreated animals, the researchers found.

Compared to the untreated animals, the treatment group showed no breathing difficulties and only minimal X-ray evidence of pneumonia.

Both treated and untreated animals, when back in the cage, would press the lever over and over again.

«You're talking about a handicapping hearing loss in the untreated animals,» Le Prell told Science News Online, versus «a hearing loss that would require minimal or no intervention in the treated animals.»

Every untreated animal died of chytridiomycosis, but those bathed in the bacterium showed no symptoms.

Wang said that restored function starts almost immediately, and healing is noticeable as early as five days after treatment; within a week, his team could see the heart beating more strongly than the hearts of the untreated animals.

The team found that just four injections over 6 weeks significantly delayed the disease's onset: At 36 weeks of age, more than 80 % of the untreated animals had kidney damage, compared to only 10 % of the mice given the most potent of the four peptides, a fragment of histone H4.

According to the new study, if U.S. farmers injected their dairy cows with bovine growth hormone, it would take just 843,000 cows to produce the same amount of milk as one million untreated animals, potentially saving 2.3 million metric tons of feed — and therefore 540,000 acres (219,000 hectares) of cropland — as well as reducing the global warming impact by the equivalent of 400,000 cars.

Damage to the joints from arthritis was decreased by 60 % after spinal injection, compared to untreated animals, the researchers report online 4 September in PLoS Medicine.

Shown here is: axillary lymph node hyperplasia and histiocytosis - 200X (A) and Bb antigen (D) in untreated animal IN16; cervical spinal cord, focal inflammatory lesion - 200X (B) and Bb antigen (E) from treated animal IH11; and a focal area of mononuclear inflammation in the myocardial interstitium - 1000X (C) and Bb antigen (F) from untreated animal IN05.

We further hypothesized that the fitness of persistent B. burgdorferi obtained from treated and untreated animals would be evident as differences in infectivity when injected into mice.

However, after the second round of xenodiagnosis (~ 12 months p.i.), the spirochetes found in XT fed upon treated animals were more frequent and were identified within in vivo heart tissue culture and in necropsy sections at a burden indistinguishable from untreated animals.

In approximately 100 sections, 7 spirochetes were identified and this included tissues from both treated and untreated animals.

Importantly, we show an absence of anti-OspA responses and that antibody levels to distinct antigens can drop significantly in untreated animals (as for IP67 and IL75) and remain elevated in treated animals (as for IK66 and IH22).

These results were clearly found in ticks from 4 of 5 untreated animals and 3 of 5 treated animals.

Haller said she also worries about whether the clinic's scaleback will lead to more sick or untreated animals.

This just makes it easier for fleas to get more blood from their victim, so it really is a vicious circle for an untreated animal.

It is a very common disease leading to a mortality rate of approximately 90 % in untreated animals.1, 2 Even with aggressive treatment involving hospitalization, intravenous fluid replacement, antibiotics, antiemetics, gastroprotectants, and antiviral agents, the observed mortality rate is as high as 10 % 1 to 36 %.2

Once one pet is infested, all untreated animals in a home will likely acquire fleas.

The condition of an untreated animal will become progressively worse and the quality of animal's life will deteriorate as congestive heart failure develops and if the condition goes untreated eventual death.