News tagged with female rats

Exercise before and during early pregnancy increases two beneficial proteins for mothers-to-be

Although exercise is generally considered to be a good thing for people with high blood pressure, it has traditionally been considered too risky for women who are also pregnant. Some studies suggest that exercise has benefits ...

Medicine & Health / Research

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Fetal programming of disease risk to next generation depends on parental gender

Overexposure to stress hormones in the womb can program the potential for adverse health effects in those children and the next generation, but effects vary depending on whether the mother or father transmits them, a new ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Study finds reproductive health effects from low doses of bisphenol-A

New research from North Carolina State University and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) shows significant reproductive health effects in rats that have been exposed to bisphenol-A (BPA) at levels ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the Palace of the Naked Mole-Rat

Naked Mole-Rats are ugly, but also very interesting mammals. Now scientists want to find out, if the males influence the distribution of male and female progeny.

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created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Exercise can reverse negative effects of maternal obesity

(Medical Xpress) -- Exercise is the key to overcoming the adverse metabolic effects passed on to offspring by their overweight mothers, with research showing for the first time these effects can be almost completely reversed ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer drugs shown to cause mutations in mice offspring

(Medical Xpress) -- For many years, most of the studies done to see what effects cancer treatment has on the offspring of survivors, has involved radiation. This is because radiation is known to cause mutations in cells. ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Ultrasound male contraceptive, overlooked for decades, confirmed to work

Imagine a contraceptive that could, with one or two painless 15-minute non-surgical treatments, provide months of protection from pregnancy. And imagine that the equipment needed were already in physical therapists' ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Largest bird alters its foraging due to climate change

Paris/ Leipzig. Wandering albatrosses have altered their foraging due to changes in wind fields in the southern hemisphere during the last decades. Since winds have increased in intensity and moved to the ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Inflammation may link obesity and adverse pregnancy outcomes

A number of different immunological mechanisms ensure the successful establishment and maintenance of pregnancy. Imbalance in these mechanisms is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. In a review published in Advances in ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Second rare white kiwi hatches in New Zealand

A second rare white kiwi has hatched at New Zealand's national wildlife centre, conservation officials announced Friday, months after the world's first hatched in captivity.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

What do animals 'know'? More than you may think

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rats use their knowledge to make decisions when faced with ambiguous situations, UCLA psychologists report.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

Helping your fellow rat: Rodents show empathy-driven behavior

The first evidence of empathy-driven helping behavior in rodents has been observed in laboratory rats that repeatedly free companions from a restraint, according to a new study by University of Chicago neuroscientists.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Bottom of the swimming league: Naked mole rat sperm

Naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber) live in a 'hive' society with one reproducing queen and between one and three reproducing males. The rest of the mole rats in the colony are workers either defending the bu ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Acquired traits can be inherited via small RNAs

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have found the first direct evidence that an acquired trait can be inherited without any DNA involvement. The findings suggest that Lamarck, whose theory of evolution ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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