Sentences with phrase «current model of disease»

«The current model of disease is that when Mtb bacteria are inhaled, they reach the end of the lung — the alveolus — and then are ingested by a macrophage, a type of white blood cell that swallows and kills invading bacteria,» Dr. Shiloh said.

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The model showed that regular and frequent testing of cattle could eventually lead to the eradication of the disease, whether or not badgers were culled and despite the current test being at most 80 % accurate.

the National Institutes of Health being the biggest funder but in the case of the flu, the Centers for Disease Control also fund their own research and a little bit about that research, and other countries also have their own ways of funding things, typically government, and the researchers in their current model of working, they are not required to release their scientific data until they publish it.

In the current study, published in Nature Communications, the scientists created a new animal model of disease to determine if BBB leakage can cause autoimmunity.

New research published today in Disease Models & Mechanisms indicates that early intervention should be a key target in the development of new therapeutics for Friedreich's ataxia, as current treatments may be administered too late to target the disease effecDisease Models & Mechanisms indicates that early intervention should be a key target in the development of new therapeutics for Friedreich's ataxia, as current treatments may be administered too late to target the disease effecdisease effectively.

The current U.S. model for delivery of chronic disease care rests with the primary care physician.

If the marriage of stem cells and CRISPR follows a similar path, it might not be long before pigs have enough Homo sapiens in them not only to grow human hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys for transplant but also to model human diseases more closely than current lab animals do and to test experimental drugs.

They are more predictive of disease phenotypes than current models.

The current study evaluates how CAG repeat number affects both the age of onset and the progression of disease in the R6 / 2 mouse model of Huntington's disease (Mangiarini et al., 1996) by concurrently evaluating R6 / 2 mice with either 110 or 240 CAG repeats in an F1 hybrid background (C57Bl / 6 x CBA / CaJ).

In the current study, the scientists discovered that, in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, the accumulation of tau in neurons disrupts the cells» ability to strengthen their connections with other neurons, preventing them from stabilizing new memories.

We are organizing joint meeting with our colleagues from Masaryk University in Brno dedicated to current progress in transgenic technologies in research application, animal models of diseases and Wnt signalling.

My current pursuit is the combination of MR Imaging, theoretical modeling and transgenic technology to elucidate the neurophysiological basis of functional conenctivity and its derangements in neurological and psychiatric disease.

The current project utilized an array of immunochemical and molecular tools to perform a characterization of retinal pathology in the early stages of disease progression using a well - validated mouse model of AD (APPSWE / PS1ΔE 9).

Scientific meeting «Gene targeting, genome editing & transgenesis: research application» We are organizing joint meeting with our colleagues from Masaryk University in Brno dedicated to current progress in transgenic technologies in research application, animal models of diseases and Wnt signalling.

These experiments are innovative because they seek to improve a mouse model based on current knowledge from human disease, while also testing novel therapies that could be of benefit for affected individuals.

Current Author Addresses: Drs. Ndeffo - Mbah and Galvani and Ms. Parpia: Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, 135 College Street, Suite 200, New Haven, CT 06510.

In contrast to the current drugs that target one protein or one mechanism, microRNA - based AMD therapy provides a unique «one - molecule, multiple - targets» model for disease treatment, which fits particularly well with the complex nature of AMD.

The study used current data from Mexico, where dengue fever is present, and information about EU countries to model the likelihood of the disease spreading in Europe.

We need a new medical model because our current limited model of diagnosis no longer reflects the science or our understanding of how the body works — and, most importantly, it is ineffective in treating our patients» with chronic disease.

As many great minds work toward evolving the current system of patient care, the certified Comprehensive Yoga Therapist will be in a unique position to pick up where modern medicine leaves off, empowering clients to augment their current care model with exploration and resolution of the deeper lifestyle issues that lie at the root of many modern disease conditions.

Our current, modern medical system is based on the pharmaceutical mantra «A pill for every ill», which is an outdated disease - care model that does nothing to identify and fix the underlying cause (s) of a patient's symptoms.

The current lifestyle disease crisis reveals that Western science has stretched the limits of its conceptual models.

The integrated medicine approach to patient care is considered the future model for healthcare destined to transform the traditional disease centric model to one where scientific principles and extensive patient evaluation are combined to create a strategy capable of improving current health and laying a foundation for health and vitality lasting throughout the patient's life span.

These have been applied to existing and new models for a range of climate - sensitive diseases in order to estimate the effect of global climate change on current disease burdens and likely proportional changes in the future.

Current collaborative research projects include modeling the effects of vertical mixing and ultraviolet radiation on primary productivity in the Southern Ocean and understanding the role of climate forcing and hydrodynamics on harmful algal blooms and outbreaks of disease in aquatic organisms in lakes.

Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,136].