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    Dunn, M. (2015). Commentary on lundholm et al. (2015): What came first, the steroids or the violence? Addiction, 110(1), 109-110. doi:10.1111/add.12752 The purpose of this article is to educate readers about the myth of ‘roid rage’. Roid rage is when a person who uses anabolic androgens and commits violent acts or behavior impulsively. To address the myth, the researchers conducted a study in Copland amongst steroid users and found that 44 % of them reported increase aggression. From the research

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    Ms. Davies, On your #MSWL, you called for middle grade novels with emotional resonance and diverse cultures. In SAM POWERS #RATGUTS, 11 year-old Sam desperately wants to be like his father, a military pilot. Sam learns to empathize with a teammate, see the good in a particularly bossy classmate, and when to ask for help. He brings the culture of the military to his new school friends, who in turn introduce Sam to the world of the contemporary South. Sam can't hear a bullfrog if it were sittin’

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    Water In The Fishbowl

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    exercise, but if there is not a spinning wheel I would ask if there was an exercise ball the hamsters could roll around in. I would also ask the owners about the diet the hamsters received. Hamsters have a very limited diet and need to be fed properly to ensure good health. The last animal to examine is the goldfish. I would look at the quality of water in the fishbowl. This is going to be the first and most obvious indicator of the well being of the fish. I would ask the owners how often they

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    high-throughput enantioselective LC-MS/MS assay to quantify torcetrapib (TTB) enantiomers [(+)-TTB and (−)-TTB] using structurally close internal standard (IS) from small volume (100 µL) of hamster plasma. The sample preparation involved simple liquid-liquid extraction of TTB enantiomers and IS (DRL-16126) from hamster plasma with acetonitrile. Absolute recovery was found to be between 64 and 68% for TTB enantiomers and >100% for IS. TTB enantiomers were efficiently separated using n-hexane: propanol

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    In God of Carnage, although it seems as if the protagonist is not just one character and each of the characters propels the story, I believe that Veronica is the protagonist. She is the person to, not only open the show, but introduce the situation that will later have to be solved at the end of the play. She immediately introduces the problem and through the entirety of the play pushes forward and attempts to bring this whole circumstance to a conclusion. It is even stated that it was Veronica’s

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    You walk into your room and you look into Nutty’s, your pet hamster, cage and see that the hamster wheel is spinning. This causes you to assume that your hamster is alive and on the wheel, but later you see Nutty’s dead body. What happened?!?! Since you only saw the wheel moving and not your hamster with your own two eyes you only concluded that Nutty is alive, while in reality that is not the truth. The wheel was spinning because Nutty had fallen off the wheel causing the wheel to continue to spin

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    he could hear a wolf howling into the skies. He looked closely at the slippery dead tree covered with moss, he saw a crow sitting and looking towards the house. James decided to sleep in the living room. Later that night, he thought about his dead hamster and he couldn’t fall asleep. Two minutes later, he heard the screeching of the doorknob turning, he saw the door turn, the door of the basement, he closed his eyes, his heart was pounding, he was sure he had seen the doorknob turn, he was so scared

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    For example, female golden hamsters with aspiration lesions to the parahippocampal area (including damage to the entorhinal, perirhinal, and temporal cortices) failed to discriminate individual male animals, although they were able to discriminate between male and female scents and habituated to repeated presentations of the same male odor (A. Petrulis et al. 2000). Similarly, male hamsters with ibotenic acid lesions to the perirhinal-entorhinal cortex could

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    Monastrol Case Study

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    donovani, were treated orally with monastrol at a dose of 2.5 mg/kg, 5 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, or 20 mg/kg on two alternate days for 1 week. Monastrol inhibited 50% of L. donovani parasite growth and proved to be non-toxic in hamsters up to 20 mg/kg, giving therapeutic backing to the use of monastrol as a potent antileishmanial in human visceral leishmaniasis cases. Monastrol was well tolerated with a small reduction in body weight observed only at the highest dose

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    at 5 different sources. These sources are all reports of scientific studies and experiments performed to determine if genetically modified organisms cause infertility. The tests are primarily done on animals with a short life span such as mice and hamsters to obtain results that should be close to what would occur on humans. Review of Literature 1 Summary The article explains a recent study

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