Sentences with phrase «used in animal studies»

These exposures not only differ widely from each other, they also vary in their resemblance to the exposure used in animal studies: maternal deprivation.

On page 45 of The China Study, Campbell mocks the high doses of carcinogens used in animal studies to show that carcinogen exposure, rather than nutritional factors such as protein intake, produce cancer:

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

In addition, extracts from parsley have been used in animal studies to help increase the antioxidant capacity of the blood.

«In addition to being used in animal studies to help us understand how the brain works, this new endoscope might one day be useful for certain applications in people,» said Shay Ohayon, who developed the device as a postdoctoral researcher in James DiCarlo's lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Not exact matches

(Hanna Tuomisto, who in 2011 conducted a study at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, found that growing meats in - vitro would use 35 % to 60 % less energy, emit 80 % to 95 % less greenhouse gas and use around 98 % less land than conventionally produced animal meat.)

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

Then there's the artificial sweetener they use, sucralose, which was shown to cause cancer in animal studies...

Carrageenan is such an efficient inflammatory agent and carcinogen, it is widely used with laboratory animals to study the molecular signals involved in cancer and anti-inflammatory drugs.

So they used five times heated palm oil (5HPO) to induce high blood pressure in rats bred for animal study research, Sprague - Dawley rats.

The Food and Drug Administration has long permitted its use, but in recent years concerns about the chemical have grown as studies have indicated low doses of the substance can disrupt hormone systems in laboratory animals and possibly increase the risk of cancer or other serious illness.

And while the science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Europe.

Before trying this remedy for your baby's thrush, you should be aware of a recent study raising concerns about the safety of using gentian violet for treating thrush as it may cause cancer in animals if used in large amounts.

I am unsure why you disagree with using data / results from studying other animals that are known to be similar to humans — I see studies all the time that correlate results in other species (eg, to demonstrate the carcinogenic properties of something, they give it to rats and watch for tumors).

Studies show that these models can accurately predict the ways that new drugs will react in the human body and replace the use of animals in exploratory research and many standard drug tests.

After early animal studies demonstrated that the synthetic cannabis extract dronabinol improved respiratory stability, recent studies in humans have explored the potential use of dronabinol as an alternative treatment for sleep apnea.

The researchers caution that the booster therapy used in their new study will not be available on the market or even for use in human trials anytime soon; it must await years of animal testing for safety and effectiveness first.

But neuroscientists, using animal studies, have been making substantial progress in understanding how individual memories are encoded in the brain.

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The amicus brief cited examples from an array of groups increasingly using public records laws to gain access to emails beyond those of climate scientists, including animal rights groups that have long waged legal battles against researchers who use animals in their studies and opponents of genetically modified organisms seeking to expose the emails of scientists in efforts to demonstrate links to industry.

Ellen Heber - Katz, a scientist at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, used to study autoimmunity — that was until she noticed something strange in the mice she was using to model lupus: The small holes that she had poked in their ears to distinguish the animals from one another kept closing.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

Dr Loch says the study showed how using techniques and methods commonly employed in dentistry can answer questions with broader implications in the biology and evolution of animal species.

Using his new technique to study wild animals, Amos has found that inbreeding could be more important in determining an individual's chances of survival than random factors such as environmental change.

It has been challenging to study liver cirrhosis, also called end - stage liver disease, because most animals used in experiments do not develop the disease.

Even more important, this seminal work opens the road for comparative neuroimaging studies in which humans and other animals perform similar tasks using similar methodologies, and the results can be analyzed using similar strategies.

The study wasn't about designing a new way of testing animal behavior, either; the same test has been used in rodents.

Swansea University (Wales, UK) Laboratory for Animal Movement has been developing new technologies to study animal behaviours and use accelerometers to quantify how much an animal moves in the three dimenAnimal Movement has been developing new technologies to study animal behaviours and use accelerometers to quantify how much an animal moves in the three dimenanimal behaviours and use accelerometers to quantify how much an animal moves in the three dimenanimal moves in the three dimensions.

«Before this study, it was not known if it is possible to produce sufficient numbers of these cells and successfully use them to remuscularize damaged hearts in a large animal whose heart size and physiology is similar to that of the human heart,» said Dr. Charles Murry, UW professor of pathology and bioengineering, who led the research team that conducted the experiment.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

Our study goes a long way towards validating the usefulness of this animal model and provides enormous support for its use in human illnesses.

Our animal ancestors used their noses way more than we do in modern society, says Jessica Freiherr, a neuroscientist at RWTH Aachen University, in Germany, and the author of several studies on human olfaction.

These animals are used in studies of cardiovascular disease, and isolated rabbits sometimes have irregular circadian rhythms, which can influence heart rate, blood pressure, and hormone levels.

In 2008, a study in Theriogenology (vol 69, p 2) concluded: «On average, the extrapolated results from studies using tens of millions of animals fail to accurately predict human responses.&raquIn 2008, a study in Theriogenology (vol 69, p 2) concluded: «On average, the extrapolated results from studies using tens of millions of animals fail to accurately predict human responses.&raquin Theriogenology (vol 69, p 2) concluded: «On average, the extrapolated results from studies using tens of millions of animals fail to accurately predict human responses.»

This study is among several funded under a public - private partnership established in 2008 between NICHD and the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars Inc., to establish a human - animal interaction research program to support studies relevant to child development, health, and the therapeutic use of animals.

Diana Reiss, a comparative psychologist at Hunter College in New York City who was involved in the dolphin and elephant mirror self - recognition studies, draws a distinction between animals using a mirror spontaneously and monkeys that do so after extensive training.

Researchers who conduct animal studies often don't use simple safeguards against biases that have become standard in human clinical trials — or at least they don't report doing so in their scientific papers, making it impossible for readers to ascertain the quality of the work, an analysis of more than 2500 journal articles shows.

«The rising level of integrons after 1990 in manured soil could indicate that through our efforts to reduce antibiotic resistance, we have unintentionally increased resistance gene exchange and more study is needed on the use of animal manure,» says Prof Graham from Newcastle University.

«We know that urate has neuroprotective properties in animal models, and an unusual convergence of human studies suggested its possible use as a disease - modifying strategy in Parkinson's; so the positive results of this trial are very encouraging.»

In this study, the Hiroshima University researchers developed an animal model using severely immunodeficient mice whose livers were partially populated with human cells, in order to reconstruct elements of the human immune systeIn this study, the Hiroshima University researchers developed an animal model using severely immunodeficient mice whose livers were partially populated with human cells, in order to reconstruct elements of the human immune systein order to reconstruct elements of the human immune system.

The biomedical device company CryoLife, Inc. is now using the researchers» design to build ring implants for further studies in lab animals, Karp says.

While mouse models have traditionally been used in studying the genetic disorder, Deng said the animal model is inadequate because the human brain is more complicated, and much of that complexity arises from astroglia cells, the star - shaped cells that play an important role in the physical structure of the brain as well as in the transmission of nerve impulses.

But in the months before graduation, he developed terrible allergies to the animals he had been using in his studies, which forced an abrupt shift in his career path.

A critical barrier to using companion animals in preclinical research is organizing those studies.

And although many of the initial animal studies used mRNAs with pseudouridine, Moderna's new chemistry was already starting to outperform that first generation in rodent studies.

Using data sourced from existing studies and information collected together in the Liverpool ENHanCEd Infectious Diseases (EID2) database, the researchers cross-referenced all known cases of parasites and pathogens in domestic animals with the length of time they have been domesticated by man.

Games used for the study included Prisoner's Dilemma, Stag Hunt and Battle of Sexes, which are often used in game theory - the science of logical decision making in humans, animals, and computers.

The brochures contain information about toxicology, pharmacology, and animal safety studies used to determine the potential risk a particular therapy may pose to humans, but they also include efficacy studies done in animal models to demonstrate a therapy's potential benefit.

In the new study, Professor Pisani and colleagues used cutting edge statistical techniques (Posterior Predictive Analyses) to test whether the evolutionary models routinely used in phylogenetics can adequately describe the genomic datasets used to study early animal evolutioIn the new study, Professor Pisani and colleagues used cutting edge statistical techniques (Posterior Predictive Analyses) to test whether the evolutionary models routinely used in phylogenetics can adequately describe the genomic datasets used to study early animal evolutioin phylogenetics can adequately describe the genomic datasets used to study early animal evolution.

Dr. Michael M. Yartsev, Research Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain.