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Design of a rodent dynamometer
In the past, computer controlled dynamometers have been used to perform isometric and isovelocity testing to study the effects of velocity, acceleration, and position on muscle injury. However, the effect of constant force on muscle injury in animals has not yet been studied.;A computer-controlled …
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The Physics of Rodent Ultrasonic Vocalizations
… make these kind of vocalizations: cetaceans and rodents. Of these two the mechanism behind the rodent calls are better understood. Thus, this thesis investigates the physics of rodent USVs with the hope that findings will help elucidate the mechanisms behind cetacean USVs. Chapter 1 discusses the …
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Rodent pollination in Androcymbium latifolium (Colchicaceae)
The repeated discovery of rodent pollination (therophily) has led to the concept of a rodent pollination syndrome. The adaptive plant traits that characterize this syndrome include flowers packed tightly into geoflorous and cryptic inflorescences, nocturnal anthesis and production of copious …
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Rodent inflammasome activation by Toxoplasma gondii
… Toxoplasma gondii as a novel activator of the rodent inflammasomes and demonstrated host cell death as a mechanism to control parasite replication. We have also identified three novel parasite proteins required for this activation, providing insight into interactions between parasite and host, …
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Rodent testing device surrogate for shockwave blast testing
… are conduct shockwave blast injury tests on rodents to simulate blast traumatic brain injury (TBI). Each of these laboratories has different techniques for creating the shockwave blasts as well as positioning the rats. There is no device to determine whether or not the rodent animal models …
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Orbitofrontal Cortex and Social Processing in Rodent Models
Social processing is the reception, interpretation, and reciprocation of social information and is critical for mental health. The neural structures, circuits, and substrates regulating these complex mechanisms are not well understood. Social processing in the form of social safety learning, as …
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Electron Microscopic and Serologic Studies of Rodent Malaria
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:13:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7000898.pdf: 10792707 bytes, checksum: 5ae4af0e7d75e0d3c73e3133f35d0200 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Neurochemical characterization of the rodent primary sensory system
Primary sensory neurons and their associated tissues are important targets for neurochemical study. Disorders of the sensory system, including chronic pain and itch, can be extremely devastating and, in many cases, difficult to treat. Part of the difficulty of treating such disorders is the limited …
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A squeaky suspicion : rodent pollination in Protea nana
The pollination syndrome of Protea nana has been described as uncertain throughout the literature. Floral morphology, presence of pendulous inflorescences
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Low Dose Dosimetry and Radiation Response in Rodent Models
Exposure to ionizing radiation from diagnostic imaging procedures has dramatically increased in the last three decades. Computed tomography is a powerful and invaluable diagnostic imaging tool, but it is essential that the radiation risks be appropriately quantified so that clinicians are in the …
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Rodent Mediated Seed Dispersal of Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia)
… Joshua tree seeds are cached by scatter-hoarding rodents and that other dispersal syndromes are unlikely. The majority of Joshua tree fruits monitored were taken directly from Joshua tree canopy by white-tailed antelope ground squirrels, and seeds and fruits on the soil surface were quickly …
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Rate alterable traumatic brain injury device for rodent models
… of increasing rates of pressure rise time on the rodent brain. A series of behavioral studies are conducted including neurological severity tests immediately after the injury followed by rotarod, ladder rung walk, metric and spatial information, and Morris water maze tasks between 1 to 15 days …
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Organotypic Cultures of Rodent Uterus: Hormonal and Implantation Responses
Culturing cells, tissues and organs outside the body has afforded the researcher the opportunity to study cellular behavior in greater detail. One area in which organ culture techniques are particularly valuable is the study of implantation. No biological event in animals is more protected, …
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An investigation of blast wave transmission through rodent simulants
… this research has been done by subjecting live rodents to blast waves and analyzing them post-mortem. There are many drawbacks to live animal testing that make a surrogate test article an attractive prospect. The goals of the current work are to 1.) develop a bio-fidelic instrumented surrogate …
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The ecology of rodent pollination in Liparia parva (Fabaceae)
… to investigate the prediction that L. parva is rodent pollinated. Several lines of evidence indicate that flowers of L. parva are visited by rodents. These include; the presence of Liparia pollen in the faeces of live trapped rodents; observations of captive rodents selectively foraging at …
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Cardiac mitochondrial respiration in two rodent models of obesity
… males. We examined our hypothesis employing two rodent models i.e. a) a rat model of diet-induced obesity and b) a transgenic (leptin receptor deficient) mouse model of obesity-induced type II diabetes. For the diabetic mouse model, we determined cardiac mitochondrial respiratory function in an …
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Rodent effects on shrubs in a Mojave Desert shrub community
… distribution and soil parameters on and off rodent mounds in a Coleogyne ramosissima community in Lucky Strike Canyon near Las Vegas, Nevada and performed several experiments to investigate rodent effects on seedlings and seeds of C. ramosissima. Rodent mounds were found to be long-term …
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Signaling Induced by Inflammatory Mediators in the Rodent Pulmonary Microvasculature
<p>Acute lung inflammation (ALI), stemming from a disproportionate and detrimental immune response, may arise from or complicate other disease states, leading to the often-fatal acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Because of the many culpable factors and differing points of induction, …
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