Two
experimental mouse models of secondary lymphedema were created surgically without radiation by modifications of the previously described methods: the tail model and the hind limb model.
The new study, using
an experimental mouse model of diabetes, is published online in the journal PLOS One.
In the current study, the researchers led by Drs Shigeo Koyasu from RIKEN and Koichiro Asano from Keio University, employed
an experimental mouse model for airway inflammation to study the pathway leading to IL -33-mediated NH activation.
Several studies are ongoing using the colitis transfer model, as well as
an experimental mouse model in which colitis is induced by the pathogenic enterobacteria Citrobacter rodentium.
The department of Immunology has a long tradition in studies of innate, mucosal, and placental, as well as classical acquired immune responses, in both human and
experimental mouse models.
Certain probiotic lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have been shown to be effective in the prevention and treatment of a variety of diarrheal disorders in humans and in
experimental mouse models.