But in animal tests in 1995 rats developed tumors, and Martin had to cut the program.
Humans, unlike the test rats, typically ingest minute quantities of phthalates over many years.
The researchers then gave the rats a drug that kept those brain areas from communicating.
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Last year, Belfast City Council received almost 6, 000 pest complaints with 1, 500 related to rats.
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But even if they act, the rats will just scurry to another garbage can.
The rats also turned pink, but it was the cancer that concerned the scientists.
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Big government facilitates corruption in the same way that a dumpster attracts rats and cockroaches.
The Rats would sell a ton of T-shirts, but you can't call them the Rats.
Surprisingly, the rats returned to that portion of the cage again and again, despite the sensation.
He compared them to rats, and threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment.
He said officers also found 80 rats, which were being kept as food for the snakes.
But she's a bubblegum starlet as well, delivering confections to the nation's mall rats.
In early-stage testing quinolones had caused liver and joint damage in young rats and dogs.
Alarm bells rang and additional tests were ordered with 800 rats and 800 mice.
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Rats that eat the berries develop up to 80% fewer colon tumors than those who don't.
Scantlebury says there are some downsides to the life of lazy mole rats, however.
As a result of damage to the rats' nerves, they became hypersensitive to heat and pressure.
They used a surgical technique to damage the spinal cord of rats and induce neuropathic pain.
City officials say no research has demonstrated an increased health risk from flushed rats from underground.
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At Timber Creek High School, for example, students purportedly released rats and a canary.
Officer Kabeya searched backyards and clambered over a construction site looking for other rats.
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The rats that received the high voltage fast-frying shock were much slower at performing the task.
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Rodent control has taken place since 1979 but there is a persistent residual population of rats.
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The NYU scientists first trained rats to associate a tone with a mild electric shock.
In rats with inherited eye defects "it works perfectly, " says Roger Ashby, the firm's chief executive.
In 1990 he and colleagues gave this antibody to rats with severed spinal cords.
Many rats first liberated the other, after which both rodents happily shared the treat.
His book series 'The Rats' has kept me on high alert whenever I'm on the tube!!
The research at the Spinal Repair Unit at UCL involved rats, not humans.
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi addressed his supporters in Tripoli, describing the rebels as "rats".
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