Sentences with phrase «animal models»

Early treatments in animal models in vivo with hotter lasers didn't work as well.

This medication is currently being studied for celiac disease and has shown positive results in animal models of other autoimmune conditions.

In this review, the authors summarize the importance of animal models for research on schizophrenia.

Clinical observations in humans and experiments using animal models of seizures support this notion.

As this work was done with animal models, we can't yet say whether the stem cells would thrive in the same way in a human brain.

The emphasis is on developing intellectual abilities and research skills through investigations of infectious diseases of food - producing, companion, and aquatic animals, as well as animal models for human disease.

For the first time, this new concept has now been tested on animal models.

These tools have made it possible to make better animal models of disease and more easily study the role of individual genes.

The researchers are performing tests in large animal models as the next step toward human studies.

The first genetic clues for slowing aging emerged from animal models in which the effect of individual genes on average life spans could be tested.

We do not cover developments of interest only to specialists, such as new animal models of a disease or the opening of new science research centres.

Our goals are to develop animal models and to characterize them.

In the case of soy, there is mixed evidence in animal models showing potentially harmful side affects, but we are not mice.

Findings made in animal models do not always translate to patients, but it appears that this important eye vessel functions very similarly in mice and humans.

The faster speed means it will be possible for the first time to watch disease progression in living animal models at the molecular level.

However, scientists do not completely understand how brown fat carries out its functions both in health and disease, in part because of the lack of an appropriate animal model.

Historically, the preferred small animal model for hypertension research has been the rat.

The first animal models, then, came about from efforts to control experiments.

The Australian team hopes to scale the treatment to higher animal models such as sheep and then conduct human clinical trials.

A new study in animal models suggests that blocking a protein that helps the virus thrive could restore immune function, allowing the body to fight infection.

Examples of applications include studies on human gene function, and creating animal models of human disease.

Animal models also help, but cancers in research animals such as mice are different from those in humans.

In addition, they plan to replicate the results of this study and test new drug combinations against the disease in various animal models in which other genes are changed.

The disease progressed very gradually, just as it does in humans, suggesting that the hamsters could provide a useful animal model system.

One of the major next steps would be placing the engineered tissue in the vocal cords of living animal models and having it survive and work.

I use a variety of cell and animal models including goats, and mice.

While most research studies begin in test tubes, cells grown in the laboratory and animal models before moving to humans, the opposite is true here.

An important step in developing effective treatments for human disease is finding an effective animal model of the disease to test potential therapies.

Thus, we turned to the laboratory animal model, the mouse, for an in - depth gene expression and functional analysis.

They may be used to understand normal or abnormal structure and function or determine the efficacy of treatments where no other suitable animal models exist.

These projects are particularly suitable for postdoctoral scientists looking to launch an independent research career with novel animal models of eye disease in hand.

Researchers say the insight could help improve animal models of bad decisions, such as drug or alcohol use that leads to addiction.

The guinea pig has recently been described as an alternative animal model for studying influenza virus transmission.

These are valuable, life - saving advances that would be impossible without animal model research.

In animal models treated with the compound, fat formation in the bone marrow was successfully blocked independent of their metabolic state (healthy or diabetic).

«We will eventually negotiate a path to getting permits for highly innovative projects where there is no other animal model available,» he says.

Additional cancer and infectious diseases studies in diverse animal models are in progress.

The findings of this work will help scientists identify possible shortcomings of current animal models and construct a more accurate picture of how genes work in humans.

That's because they may have finally developed a tissue model for the human heart that can bridge the gap between animal models and human patients.

Such animals would be better than existing animal models for testing potential new treatments, he suggests.

Please contact one of our scientists for references pertaining to your specific animal model.

Its aim is to promote the utilization of aquatic animal models.

There are a few animal models used to induce fatty liver.

The current project is to determine if resistant starch can improve glucose status in a genetic animal model of diabetes.

He even secured the mouse as the official animal model for government - funded cancer research.