Sentences with phrase «animal model presented»

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What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare?By presenting models for understanding animals» moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection wi...

Now, a trio of studies in the July issue of Nature Medicine opens new avenues for plaque research by presenting a new animal model for plaque formation, a diagnostic tool for spotting them, and a possible way to break them down.

«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.

They found that their observations from animal models held true in that the average length of all the DNA pieces present in the blood from melanoma patients was 20 - 50 base pairs shorter compared to the DNA pieces in blood from healthy volunteers.

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

However, it was unclear at this stage in their research if this was a species - specific finding limited to animal tumor models or if this was a biologic phenomenon that may also be present in cancer patients.

The study, to be presented at the annual Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Toronto, found that the drug pazopanib decreases levels of phosphorylated Tau (p - Tau) in animal models genetically engineered to produce human mutant tau throughout their brains.

Similar findings were present in the cerebral cortex and other regions of the brain in these animals and also found in several other mouse models of diabetes.

Investigating mouse models for biological for research The congress aims to promote the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) mouse lines, importance of mouse phenotyping & clinical and drug discovery collaboration, to present progresses performed by IMPC with regards CRISPR editing genome, rare diseases, microbiota and ageing pipeline, as well as illustration of examples of scientific projects about «Animal models for human diseases» and recent developments in mouse models phenotyping imaging.

The researcher will present evidence showing that tiny blood vessels that supply the brainstem become inflamed in animal models with high blood pressure, potentially because sticky molecules trap inflammatory white blood cells.

Enhanced expression of one of these molecules, CD1d, is coupled to selective induction of invariant natural - killer T cells (iNKT), a subset of T lymphocytes that are present at low levels in lymphocyte populations and whose absence enhances autoimmunity in animal models.

Present use cases for the utility of animal models for identifying targets for precision therapies

Professional Experience 1983 — 1986 Research / Teaching Assistant, Exercise Physiology, University of Texas, Austin TX 1986 — 1990 Assistant Instructor / Research Assistant, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, and Vertebrate Physiology, University of Texas, Austin TX 1993 — 1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, Oregon State University 1994 — 1996 Technical Services Advisor, Genetic Resources, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 1996 — 1998 Manager, Technical Services, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 1997 — 1998 Assistant Professor, Adjunct, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas NM 1998 — 2000 Senior Technical Information Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 2000 — 2002 Senior New Models Development Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 2002 — 2004 Associate Director of Genetic Resources, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 2004 — 2005 Associate Research Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 2004 — 2009 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas NM 2009 — 2014 Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas NM 2014 — present Professor, Dept. of Biology, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas NM

The current series of studies present findings from two animal models of PTSD, namely the mouse chronic social defeat (CSDS) model (Berton et al., 2006; Golden et al., 2011) recently developed in collaboration with Dr. Eric Nestler and also the fear - conditioned, Wistar - Kyoto (WKY) rat model (DaSilva et al., 2011; 2013).

A summary of the SARS - CoV vaccine evaluations in animal models (including the current report) that indicated an evaluation for immunopathology after challenge is presented in Table 2.

Nicola Viebig presented on behalf of Patrick Duffy and the team the placental malaria animal model (PlacID) project.

The comprehensive information presented for each cell therapy includes: an overview of the therapy, a list of therapeutic cells utilized in the specific treatment, mode and regimen of cell delivery, mechanism of action, formulation, in vitro data, animal models, preclinical data and related clinical trials.

Having previously published data on a variety of experimental mAbs against AS species in animal models -LRB-[16,20]; possibly [21]-RRB-, Prothena's Dale Schenk presented new data on additional experimental antibodies at SENS Research Foundation's Rejuvenation Biotechnology 2014 conference, roughly contemporaneous to its publication, [22] along with information specific to the humanized candidate PRX002, which is now being advanced into clinical trials.

Each cell - based treatment approach is presented as a potential therapy for a specific disease or a disease category (e.g.: cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, etc.), studied in animal models or in humans.

The congress aims to promote the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) mouse lines, importance of mouse phenotyping & clinical and drug discovery collaboration, to present progresses performed by IMPC with regards CRISPR editing genome, rare diseases, microbiota and ageing pipeline, as well as illustration of examples of scientific projects about «Animal models for human diseases» and recent developments in mouse models phenotyping imaging.

The Czech Centre for Phenogenomics and the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the ASCR, v.v.i., would like to invite you to a seminar «Gait Analysis in Animal Models of Human Disorders» presented by Dr. Thomas G. Hampton (Mouse Specifics, Inc., Boston, USA).

The Jackson Laboratory Research scientist / Animal models of human disease, Mouse Mutant Resource, Genetic Resource Science 2006 - present

In the present study, we sought to study the effects of the IF diet for three months in an animal model.

Nevertheless, direct experimentation and clinical trials in humans are still lacking at the present time, and to avoid the possibility of generating false hopes the preliminary data from animal models obviously have to be considered very cautiously.

His book Redemption presents the No - Kill Equation (the formula for ending the killing of animals in shelters), promotes the need to legislate no - kill through shelter reform legislation, and includes a proposed model law.

Kahneman presented their new model of the mind to the general reader in Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), where he characterized the human mind as the interrelated operation of two systems of thought: System One, which is fast and automatic, including instincts, emotions, innate skills shared with animals, as well as learned associations and skills; and System Two, which is slow and deliberative and allows us to correct for the errors made by System One.