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Dietary phytosterols and phytostanols decrease cholesterol levels but increase blood pressure in WKY
Nutrition & Metabolism, 2010 Background There are safety concerns regarding widespread consumption of phytosterol and phytostanol supplemented food products. The aim of this study was to determine, in the absence of excess dietary salt, the individual effects of excess accumulation ...
Ratnayake Walisundera MN +6 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Individual differences or vulnerabilities must exist which bias some individuals toward psychopathology while others remain resilient in the face of trauma.
Daniel Paul Miller +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The WMI and WLI inbred rats were generated from the stress-prone, and not yet fully inbred, Wistar Kyoto (WKY) strain. These were selected using bi-directional selection for immobility in the forced swim test and were then sib-mated for over 38 ...
Tristan V. de Jong +6 more
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Bone healing of mandibular critical-size defects in spontaneously hypertensive rats
Brazilian Oral Research, 2013 Few articles have shown changes in bone metabolism caused by hypertension. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between hypertension and bone healing.
Veronica Kei Len Chin +2 more
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Avoidance Expression in Rats as a Function of Signal-Shock Interval: Strain and Sex Differences
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015 Inbred Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats express inhibited temperament, increased sensitivity to stress, and exaggerated expressions of avoidance. A long-standing observation for lever press escape/avoidance learning in rats is the duration of the warning signal (
Richard J Servatius +14 more
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Avoidance as expectancy in rats: Sex and strain differences in acquisition
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014 Avoidance is a core feature of anxiety disorders and factors which increase avoidance expression or its resistance represent a source of vulnerability for anxiety disorders. Outbred female Sprague Dawley (SD) rats and inbred male and female Wistar-Kyoto (
Pelin eAvcu +19 more
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Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2018 Aside from its clinical symptoms of inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity, patients with Attention/Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) display reward and motivational impairments. These impairments may reflect a deficit in action control, that is,
Joman Y. Natsheh +4 more
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Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2016 Obesity has reached pandemic levels worldwide. The current models of diet-induced obesity in rodents use predominantly high-fat based diets that do not take into account the consumption of variety of highly palatable, energy-dense foods that are ...
Neus Martínez-Micaelo +7 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014 Avoidance behaviors, in which a learned response causes omission of an upcoming punisher, are a core feature of many psychiatric disorders. While reinforcement learning (RL) models have been widely used to study the development of appetitive behaviors ...
Catherine E Myers +6 more
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Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira, 2011 PURPOSE: We compared the sural nerve morphology among Wistar (WR), Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and Spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rats, including the nerve fascicles and myelinated fibers morphometry.
Luciana Sayuri Sanada +4 more
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