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The western and eastern Cytb clades within the marsh rice rat may represent expansions from different glacial refugia which the species was restricted to during a glacial period.

Beta-cell mass and beta-cell replication is decreased in the GK pancreas and as such the GK rat may represent a model of beta-cell degradation for human NIDDM [31], [32], [33].

Overall, our findings show that DBP effects on fetal germ cells in the human are less pronounced than in the rat at the same dose, but the similarity of the types of effect observed with those in the rat suggest that the rat may represent a suitable model for evaluating mechanisms of DBP-induced germ cell effects relevant to the human.

The WKY rat may be an appropriate animal model for CAP effects on inflammation, whereas SH rats may represent a better model to study systemic effects of CAP.

Thus, HAB rats may represent a clinically relevant model to study the mechanisms and potential targets to accelerate delayed extinction processes in subjects with enhanced trait anxiety.

Although our study in rats may represent a valid approach to evaluate EPI® treatment, studies designed to determine how EPI® treatment may affect recovery of injury in humans are needed.

Although our study in rats may represent a valid approach to evaluate EPI® treatment, studies designed to determine how the EPI® treatment may affect recovery of injury in humans are needed.

Other genes in the third group with increased levels of mRNA after fracture in the older rats may represent attempts to stimulate nerve regrowth or other processes that are not responding.

The major interest of the present study was to test whether HAB rats may represent a psychopathologically relevant animal model of impaired fear memory extinction, thus mimicking a core problem of various anxiety disorders (see Introduction).

Advantages of a rat versus a mouse model include its size and evidence that the rat model may represent the human disease processes better than the mouse equivalent (Oyasu, 1995).

Given the fact that AD is sporadic with unclear pathogenesis in the majority of affected people, the abnormalities described in the LCR rat brain may represent early targets for further understanding the pathophysiology and potential interventions in this debilitating disease.