Sentence examples for allow a rat from inspiring English sources

The cuts he made did not completely sever the cord, so some nerve fibres still ran from the rats' brains to their lower bodies, but the signals transmitted by these fibres were not powerful enough to allow a rat to use its hind legs.

Neural activity sampled from 30 to 40 randomly chosen place cells carries enough information to allow a rat's location to be reconstructed with high confidence.

The duration of each trial was sufficient to allow a rat that allocated all of its time to lever pressing to harvest 20 rewards.

Now researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York have developed a Rat Conscious Animal PET (RatCAP) imager, which allows a rat to wear a scanner even while it moves around.

Weighing in at 250 grams, it is still too heavy to be worn simply, so the team arranged a system of springs and pivots that allowed a rat to move around unhindered while wearing it.

An artificial, laboratory example of observational learning would be to allow an observer rat to watch a demonstrator rat pressing a lever for food.

The effect of hippocampal lesions on passive spatial learning might be seen to be consistent with the claim that the hippocampus participates critically in the development of a cognitive map (O' Keefe and Nadel, 1978; Doeller et al., 2008), where passive training allows a normal rat to construct a map of the environment and the location of the goal within it.

We cloned and characterized these three enzymes from the rat to allow a side-by-side comparison of structural and catalytic properties.

Those that survive then mate with other resistant rats, allowing a generation of rats resistant to existing poisons to build up.

Each male rat was allowed a 30-min exposure to a female rat in behavioral estrous for copulatory behavior, as described previously [ 24, 25].

In a third experimental series, the pharmacokinetics and antinociceptive effect of diclofenac was assayed in the pain-induced functional impairment model in the rat, which allows a simultaneous determination of antinociception and blood drug concentration [ 3].