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Showing posts with label animal research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal research. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Who funds dog research?

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As I move through my training and think ahead to my future career, I wonder: who will pay for all this research I want to do on dogs? I have...
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Monday, October 27, 2014

Can prenatal stress be reversed?

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I was scanning the titles of new journal articles a while back, and came across one that made me think, hey, that may be about rats, but it ...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Shades of grey in the ethics of animal research

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This afternoon I read Animal Research: Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights, by Walter Jessen of Highlight Health. The article addressed some m...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

Why cortisol sucks as a measurement of stress

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Standing in the ward of a veterinary hospital, you see a dog jumping up and down in his run, barking. Is he distressed at being here? Or is ...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Nest making, oxytocin, and social bonding

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I encountered Nest making and oxytocin comparably promote wound healing in isolation reared rats [1] while reading about how stress affect...
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Monday, December 7, 2009

Links post

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How to talk back to a statistic : “how to look a phoney statistic in the eye and face it down” Impediments to dialogue about animal research...
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Jessica Perry Hekman, DVM, PhD is fascinated by dog brains. She is a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she studies the genetics of dog behavior. Her interests include the stress response in mammals, canine behavior, canine domestication, shelter medicine, animal welfare, and open access publishing. You may learn more about Jessica at www.dogzombie.com, or email her at jph at dogzombie dot com. All opinions expressed here are her own.
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