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As part of our celebration of National Veterinary Technician Week, we present the third in our series of daily profiles of the hard - working vet techs indispensable to the compassionate care of the animal patients at the NC State Veterinary Hospital.

The birthplace of veterinary specialties, the School serves a distinctly diverse array of animal patients at our two campuses, from pets to horses to farm animals.

Not exact matches

It might be prudent for you to remodel to create more patient rooms as you will be able to see more animals at the same time if your vet tech can perform many of the initial tasks.

In 2000, Klapper took a break from his patients at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to visit the nearby tar pits, where myriad mammals and other animals (SN: 5/17/14, p. 18) have been getting stuck for the last 40,000 years.

Oliver sent his postdoctoral student Tom Kollars to trap animals, including wild rabbits, at a farm where two of Masters» patients had developed EM rashes along with arthritis, muscle aches and other Lyme - like symptoms after lone star tick bites.

Previous research has looked at animals or patients with more prolonged cardiac arrest.

Moreover, getting a better picture of what the virus looks like and understanding its properties through animal testing and studying patients» blood might help vaccine developers pinpoint specific issues, says Pei - Yong Shi, a virologist at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

At the patient safety charity, Safer Medicines, we believe this goal is most likely to be achieved through a greatly increased focus on human, rather than animal, biology in preclinical drugs tests.

McDonald is working with medicinal chemists at Vanderbilt to develop more selective and potent PGD inhibitors for testing in animal models, with the ultimate goal of moving these inhibitors into clinical trials for pancreatic cancer patients.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

«After our animal studies showed that GM - CSF was important in the development of an MS - like disease, we were excited to see these results confirmed using samples from MS patients in the current study,» says Abdolmohamad Rostami, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Neurology at Thomas Jefferson University and director of its neuroimmunology laboratory.

They stand at the fence, head - on, impassive, like the Charolais they are — patient, buff - colored animals.

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.

A small number of federal researchers deemed essential by their agencies would still report to work, such as those involved in caring for patients at NIH's clinical research center, sustaining animal colonies in research laboratories, or handling weather data seen vital to public safety.

It is just one of hundreds of compounds that have shown great promise in animal experiments — such as helping rats learn their way around mazes — yet seem to produce at best only marginal effects in patients.

«We estimate that data from millions of patients and animals may be tucked away in predatory journals,» said Dr. Manoj Lalu, associate scientist and anesthesiologist at The Ottawa Hospital, assistant professor at the University of Ottawa and co-author of the study.

The study looked at a way to substitute animal - based saturated fats for plant - based unsaturated fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

At the asylum and the army barracks, he and his team also infected patients with infectious syphilis bacteria taken from humans and animals, mixed with beef heart broth, distilled water, or spinal fluid.

In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory mice.

The investigator, Bengt Gerdin, professor emeritus of surgery at Uppsala University, examined six papers about the patients and one on animal tests of the procedure and found multiple problems that he deemed serious enough to constitute misconduct, including inaccurate descriptions of the condition of patients at the time of publication and stating that ethical permission had been obtained for the work although there is none on record.

More animal studies would be needed to move this drug toward human clinical trials, but «what we hope is that we could use this drug to intervene in patients who have had an episode of prolonged seizures and give it to them briefly following that episode to protect them from becoming epileptic,» said James McNamara, M.D., a professor in the departments of neurobiology and neurology at Duke University.

There were no animal studies that had tested the specific combination of materials Macchiarini used on the patients at the time of the transplants, the report says.

Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn, animal physiologists at Stanford University, invented the tool to warm patients waking from anesthesia but found it also had a useful application as a cooling system.

With a possible government shutdown only a few days away, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to be ready to send in a skeleton staff to care for patients and maintain animals and experiments at the agency's Bethesda, Maryland, campus.

If we can prevent the formation of metastases in the liver, at least in an animal model, that is a major step towards developing new treatments for cancer patients.»

What has been more surprising to the researchers is not that the improvements have held for the year — that much had already been documented in animal studies — but that, at least in one of the patients, the therapy helped train the eye to see better.

To investigate whether induction of IAPP aggregation leads to some of the clinical alterations typically observed in patients with T2D, we measured fasting blood glucose at different times after inoculation in the same animals used for IAPP histological analysis shown above.

«By using an animal model to expand tumor cells recently removed from patients, we hoped to re-create more closely what actually happens in patients with pancreatic cancer rather than by using existing artificial cell lines,» said Wei Zhang, Ph.D., an endowed Hanes and Willis Family Professor in cancer at Wake Forest School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest Baptist, and principal investigator of the study.

«We discovered that a specific protein, thrombospondin - 2 (TSP2), is elevated in wounds of patients with diabetes as well as in animal models of diabetes,» said Britta Kunkemoeller, a doctoral student at Yale University who conducted the study.

The general approach we adopt is to investigate pulmonary fibrosis at the molecular level, in cells and animal models, and to validate the newly - discovered pathways using patient samples.

The main research activity (located in central Paris and vicinity at Orsay) regroups to date 16 technology platforms and services offering state ‐ of ‐ the - art expertise and equipment from small molecule chemistry to omcs, super-resolution microscopy, sophisticated radiation sources and various animal models, including xenografts directly derived from patients, in order to promote the best environment and support for research activities.

Taming the beast «I describe psoriasis to my patients as a wild animal in a room — and the room is their life,» says dermatologist Andrew Blauvelt, MD, who sees a variety of complex cases as the research director of the Center of Excellence for Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

I encourage all my patients to eliminate — or at least reduce — their intake of animal products in honor of their health, the environment, and animal rights.

In the meantime, the results of experiments in animals and humans suggest that lipid - lowering drug treatment, especially with the fibrates and statins, should be avoided except in patients at high short - term risk of coronary heart disease.

The patient example here used to discredit the virtues of the plant based intervention approach would have likely showed massive endothelial damage from the decades of high animal protein and artery injuring foods, in fact the plant based intervention at the late stage of his chronic illness may have actually improved blood work and perhaps added some time to this patients life although it is not mentioned here.

Question for Dr Greger - I am working with a patient, the above studies that you mention (protein intake and IGF - 1 levels and the one that looked at non animal protein vs animal protein intake and IGF - 1 levels?

easy going, honest, adventureous, nature and animal loving, patient, excellent shape and health, understanding, non abusive, fun loving and young at heart

She was very patient with me, a novice at this type of cover design (all of my previous 20 + book covers were for non-fiction - a different animal entirely) and steered me to the final design, which was much better than my original vision for the cover.

It's that heart - to - heart bond that is the essence of Pet Peace of Mind, HGC's unique program that enables hospice patients to keep their pets at home with them throughout their illnesses, ensuring that the deep human - animal bond does not become a casualty at a time when other losses are occurring.

«Our study shows that neurons in the human amygdala respond preferentially to pictures of animals, meaning that we saw the most amount of activity in cells when the patients looked at cats or snakes versus buildings or people,» Florian Mormann, lead author of a paper and a former postdoctoral scholar at CalTech said in releasing the study.

Conversely, when they could keep their animals without the stress of paying for decent pet food or medications, McNac says patients were more content, more at ease with the process they were going through.

We always put the patient first at Oak Tree Animal Hospital and all decisions are made for the well - being of your pet.

We are seeing more ticks on patients at Oak Hills Animal Hospital earlier in the summer this year than in past summers.

The professional and courteous staff at Blair Animal Hospital seeks to provide the best possible medical, surgical and dental care for our highly - valued patients.

Throughout the years the doctors and staff at 434 Animal Hospital have gained a reputation for providing thorough, honest and truly personalized services for all of our patients and clients.

Dr. Crowe's mission is to be there for the life of your pet... because she cares, which in her words breaks down into providing high quality medical care to your pets and companion animals throughout their lifetimes... For many of her patients she has been there at the beginning, at the end and every step and stage in between.

At Tanner Lakes Animal Clinic, every anesthetized patient will receive an I.V. catheter for fluid and drug administration.

You must provide a doctor's letter that: states that you have a mental or emotional disability recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; shows the need for emotional support or psychiatric service animal for air travel and / or activity at your destination; provides proof of their licensing as a mental health professional or medical doctor (including date, type and state of license) and that you're a patient.

At Good Hope Animal Hospital, we love our four - legged patients, and we value our clients.

Not only has she grown to be Amber's best friend, Dolly has become a mainstay at the family's Chattanooga Dental Studio and serves as a comfort animal for patients who are nervously awaiting their procedures.