Casting the Net Widely for Change in Animal Welfare: The Plight of Birds in Zoos, Ex Situ Conservation, and Conservation Fieldwork

This paper discusses paradoxes in our relationship to and treatment of birds in captive and conservation contexts.The paper identifies modern diablo 2 amn and new challenges that arise from declining bird numbers worldwide.Such challenges have partly changed zoos into providers of insurance populations specifically for species at risk of extinction

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Orchestrated regulation of Nogo receptors, LOTUS, AMPA receptors and BDNF in an ECT model suggests opening and closure of a window of synaptic plasticity.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an efficient and relatively fast acting treatment for depression.However, one severe side effect of the treatment is retrograde amnesia, which in certain cases can be long-term.The mechanisms behind the antidepressant effect and the amnesia are not well understood.We hypothesized that ECT causes transient downregu

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