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Electrosmog from Communication Equipment
Published in William J. Rea, EMF Effects from Power Sources and Electrosmog, 2018
The data using the cordless DECT base as a source of EMF may appear surprising due to the low SAR level, as deduced by measuring the field within the animal cage, approximately 20 mW/Kg, but one explanation could be the intensity windows effect.122,139 Interestingly, Salford's work with rats, applying a similar low SAR value (0.6 and 60 mW/Kg) but using mobile phone radiation for just 2 h per week for 55 weeks, demonstrated significantly altered performance during an episodic-like memory test.77
Animal Minds
Published in L. Syd M Johnson, Karen S. Rommelfanger, The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics, 2017
We have examined whether a robust notion of dissent can be applied to some nonhuman animals. The evidence for pain and such cognitive capacities as episodic-like memory in some other animals, provided by a combination of neuroscientific and behavioral evidence, suggests that it can. We have also provided some reasons for thinking that the failure of anthropocentricism and human exceptionalism requires a reweighting of animal dissent in bioethical analyses of their use in research. As such, we reject the Weatherall Report’s dismissal of the moral significance of noncooperative animal research subjects. Reweighted, the dissent capacity of some research animals requires changes in how they are treated in research and how we envision their future use. In particular, their sustained dissent in research settings can preclude them from use. What’s more, research settings that are known to adversely affect a nonhuman animal’s psychological development (e.g., learned helplessness research), and so adversely affect their dissent capacity, are morally impermissible.
High-fat and combined high-fat–high-fructose diets impair episodic-like memory and decrease glutamate and glutamine in the hippocampus of adult mice
Published in Nutritional Neuroscience, 2022
Humberto Martínez-Orozco, Luis A. Reyes-Castro, Consuelo Lomas-Soria, Cuauhtémoc Sandoval-Salazar, Joel Ramírez-Emiliano, Sofía Díaz-Cintra, Silvia Solís-Ortiz
The findings of the present study have implications for clinical practice in the development of strategies for the prevention of early cognitive decline associated with diet-induced obesity in humans. Our results will also serve to apply treatments with balanced diets for the rescue of episodic memory in senile individuals. Strengths of the present study include the use of a combined diet with high-fat-high-fructose, in addition to a high-fat diet, the use of a well-validated recognition memory tests for a more detailed characterization of episodic-like memory in mice, measurements of glutamate, glutamine and GABA and analysis of gene expression in hippocampal tissue. However, this study has limitations: First, we did not include electrophysiological measures that could help support the effects of diets on episodic-like memory. Second, we did not evaluate another type of memory such as spatial memory in mice. Third, we do not include a group of mice fed a high-fructose diet, which should be included in further studies.