The children of cities like Mumbai should have the opportunity to experience wildlife other than crows, pigeons and rats.
Humans have been the most successful species on the planet (roaches and rats have done well, too).
In one case, the suspects made fake mutton from foxes, mink and rats after adding chemicals, state media said.
It's common for mice and rats to be the subject of testing during research ultimately intended to benefit humans.
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Besides, the two researchers say, mice and rats are especially susceptible to cancer.
There are flies and rats, and in the hot weather of recent weeks, the filthy smell has just got worse.
Professor Sebastian Brandner, head of the division of neuropathology at the Institute of Neurology, University College London, said it has been known for decades that such cells were present in mice and rats.
Melatonin, a hormone used to prevent insomnia, became a craze a few years ago, when, on the basis of studies with mice and rats, some researchers hailed it as a miracle cure for aging.
The large differences observed in unconjugated BPA levels between injection and oral exposures were qualitatively and quantitatively similar to what we previously reported in male and non-pregnant female monkeys, adult male and female rats, and adult male and female mice.
In early-stage testing quinolones had caused liver and joint damage in young rats and dogs.
He took a strange cocktail of 17 vitamins and supplements, including shark cartilage pills, and imagined the metastases were rats and he was chasing them with a club.
Now the tunnels have been discovered, and left to the curiosity of rats and mafia historians like me.
He raised a gothic menagerie: hundreds of snakes, a crow, and white rats that he sometimes snuggled with in bed.
Domesticated cats alone kill around 300m animals each year in Britain, including around 80m mice, 15m rabbits and 3m rats.
We've seen Cyborg beetles, cockroaches and even rats before, but this latest creation is possibly one of the creepiest.
The paired and unpaired rats in the two boxes were subsequently exposed to five tones used in the fear-conditioning phase of the experiment.
After 24 hours, the so-called paired and unpaired rats were placed in two boxes, one of which had been previously occupied for three hours by another rat of the same species that imparted its scent.
The partial injury (there are no ventilators for rats, so the researchers could not completely sever the cord without killing them) allowed only one side of the diaphragm to work and the rats had trouble breathing.
The court heard the four younger men were told to say that they had not liked the schools - where students were beaten, the food was bad and buildings invested by rats - and came home for that reason.
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Alarm bells rang and additional tests were ordered with 800 rats and 800 mice.
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The hangover is an astonishingly complex physiological phenomenon, with dozens of symptoms and relatively little human trial data - rats and a few undergraduates are the preferred model for much of the relevant research.
Robots and virtual reality have been used to let rats and humans interact.
They are frequent victims of diseases such as dengue fever, spread by mosquitoes that breed in the landfill's stagnant water, as well as respiratory ailments and infections attributable to rats, birds and other vermin.
The lab, which counts Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Merck among its clients, uses mice, rats and guinea pigs to test compounds before beginning human trials.
The drains were all polluted, hawkers used basins to wash their soiled crockery, and you could see rats, cockroaches, and other animals running around.
Turn on your television and you will find it littered with programs about hoarders and pack-rats, those who simply cannot let go of anything and whose lives are crushed as a result.
The scientists mixed it with the VEGF and injected the combination into the hearts of two groups of test animals, rats and pigs, in which they had induced heart attacks. (Pig hearts bear significant similarities to human ones.) In both cases, instead of being washed away, the VEGF stayed on the lattice and slowly got released over several weeks.
Fabrizio Sanna and colleagues at the University of Cagliari in Italy injected oxytocin into particular parts of the brains of rats and induced yawning, or blocked the effect by injecting an oxytocin-blocking chemical first.
Food and Agriculture Organization based in Rome, over 50 billion vertebrates are consumed by humans every year, a number that does not account for fish or marine and fresh-water invertebrates, or for biomedical victims of experimentation, from dogs to hamsters to rats and mice.
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