Sentences with phrase «animal patients in»

Performance Profile Experienced Veterinary Technician with an outstanding record of providing assistance in treating animal patients in clinical settings.

We provide state - of - the - art care and treatment services for animal patients in Laguna Beach, CA and other nearby communities, including Newport Coast and Newport Beach.

Participation of animal patients in a clinical trial does not increase the owner's cost for the care of their animal.

Through the years Community Practice services were added for both small animal patients and large animal patients in West Lafayette and the surrounding areas.

Bastien Award is presented to a fourth year DVM student exhibiting empathy and practicing exceptional canine care to a small animal patient in the veterinary clinics: Kristina Naef (2017), Erin Kelsey (2016), Cory Dehnart (2015), Maggie Placer (2014), Katie Barrowclough (2013), Andrea Bolden (2012), Anita Lovely (2011), Lindsey Roth (2010), Jessica Montgomery (2009)

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I've never heard of anyone treating patients in animal stalls.

A number of hospitals now use a variety of animals to improve the emotional well - being of their patients, despite the difficulties of having pets in such institutions.

This is done routinely in experiments with animals and occasionally with human patients undergoing neurological treatment.

Although more and more human studies are being conducted to validate claims found in animals, many studies are with patients with a certain illness or condition (ex.

Corie would love to someday have animals in her home and the guidance of a patient parent to help her learn to care for them on her own.

Decreasing the lactose content of animal milk by the traditional method of yoghurt making may be beneficial in some patients.

BURNET, Texas (June 12)-- It is popular and expedient in politics to champion taxpayer rights, state's rights, patient rights, gay rights, people - with - disabilities rights, even animal rights.

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 yearIn 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 yearin 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.

To better understand their findings, the team examined the animal model for APS1 (i.e. mice with the same genetic defect as human patients with the syndrome) and found that male mice spontaneously developed an inflammatory disease in their prostate glands — a so - called prostatitis — and reacted to transglutaminase 4.

Scientists doing more open - ended searches often use mass spectrometry, generating lists of the extracellular vesicle — associated proteins in samples from diseased and healthy patients or animals.

With that approach, informed by prior research in animals, the research team ultimately identified four proteins (copeptin, galectin 3, matrix metalloproteinase 9 and occludin) that changed dramatically in the bloodstream of patients shortly after they had a concussion.

Further studies in animal models and patients (with altered TRPM7 channel function) have been initiated, in order to evaluate the efficacy and safety of magnesium as a therapeutic for this disease.

In their always engrossing, often grotesque account, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy trace the illness's history, detailing the many futile methods of combating the disease (including the original «hair of the dog:» binding into a patient's wound a hair from the animal that infected him) before Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine became the first effective treatment in 188In their always engrossing, often grotesque account, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy trace the illness's history, detailing the many futile methods of combating the disease (including the original «hair of the dog:» binding into a patient's wound a hair from the animal that infected him) before Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine became the first effective treatment in 188in 1885.

Because Nanotax is a repurposed form of an already in - use drug, it shortened the time between animal and patient trials.

A raft of studies in laboratory animals, molecular models and cancer patients suggest that pain drugs given during and after cancer surgery stimulate the growth and spread of certain tumors.

p11 is increased in rodent brains by antidepressants or electroconvulsive therapy, but decreased in an animal model of depression and in brain tissue from depressed patients.

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.

Besides its potential application in human patients, the newly developed skin tissue also could be used as an alternative to testing cosmetics on animals, the researchers said.

Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no experiments were conducted either with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

And a recent study in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (vol 64, p 345) shows that animal tests missed 81 per cent of the serious side effects of 43 drugs that went on to harm patients.

Consequently, the prospect that Myc inhibitors could be a viable treatment in patients has been problematic because past research in animals has shown that the compounds degrade too quickly to have any effect against cancer.

«This is not by any means the device that you're going to implant into a patient,» said Karumbaiah, an assistant professor of animal and dairy science in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

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.

The journal provides cutting - edge research including results from animal models that are likely to apply to patients, studies in human tissue that provide new information about therapies or disease, and innovative reports of drug discovery and development.

Because the researchers found that CTLA4Ig was effective in suppressing hepatitis in this study, they suggest that CTLA4Ig should be among the therapeutic options investigated further as a potential therapy for patients with severe acute hepatitis B. To this end, this animal model is useful for virological and immunological analysis of HBV infection.

To create mouse avatars, researchers implant some of a patient's cancer cells into rodents lacking a normal immune system and measure whether various drugs destroy the tumors that sprout in the animals.

In patients, Ridker found that statin drugs, widely known to prevent heart attacks by lowering cholesterol, lower CRP levels, too, suggesting they blunt inflammation — something Libby had seen in animalIn patients, Ridker found that statin drugs, widely known to prevent heart attacks by lowering cholesterol, lower CRP levels, too, suggesting they blunt inflammation — something Libby had seen in animalin animals.

The finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Medicine, raises new questions about whether people could contract exotic diseases if animal organs become routinely transplanted into human 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.

A total of 145 patients has been diagnosed in recent weeks with a strain of the H3N2 animal influenza virus, but it likely has not yet evolved the ability to transmit efficiently between humans

They found that, within the first three days of injury, fish in the concussion group were slower to find a school of fish with which they previously swam, a measure of spatial memory which is impaired in other animal models of concussion and human patients.

«The rules, whether to protect human patients and research animals or prevent financial conflicts of interest, are often well - intentioned, academic officials say,» wrote Malakoff Monday in another After Election 2014 post.

«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.

The researchers hope these findings will aid in developing new treatments by using animal models that more closely represent the types of mutations apparent in the vast majority of patients with enchrondromas.

In his book, The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease, Swedish physician Uffe Ravnskov asserts that as of 1998, 27 studies on diet and heart disease had been published regarding 34 groups of patients; in 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did noIn his book, The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease, Swedish physician Uffe Ravnskov asserts that as of 1998, 27 studies on diet and heart disease had been published regarding 34 groups of patients; in 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did noin 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did noin animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did not.

Dr. Frankel is currently directing or co-directing projects related to the ethical and policy implications of human germ - line interventions, the responsible use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research, improving patient safety and reducing errors in health care, the ethical dimensions of the Human Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for electronic publishing in science.

New results in animals highlight a major safety concern regarding a class of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents used in millions of patients each year, according to a paper published online by the journal Investigative Radiology.

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.

Studies of IBD are typically performed using cell culture experiments or animal models, which don't mimic the precise conditions that occur in the gut of human patients.

Animal studies have suggested that overactivation of TLR7 plays a role in lupus, and a gene variant that increases expression of the receptor has been associated with increased lupus risk in human patients.

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.

«I would like to emphasize that none of the current animal models fully recapitulate the symptoms seen in Alzheimer's patients.

Prototypes could detect carcinoembryonic antigen, a protein present in high levels in patients with colon or rectal cancer; ractopamine, which is an animal - feed additive banned in many countries; and thrombin, a cardiovascular disease marker.

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.

The exact mechanisms must be probed in further animal studies, Reid says, but eventually he hopes researchers will be able to use a patient's bacterial makeup as a biomarker for cancer screening or to develop probiotics for improving prognosis and treatment outcomes.