Sentences with phrase «few animal models»

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Recent collaborative work between UCR and Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles demonstrated that in animal models of human breast cancer, mice treated with 123B9 that was conjugated with paclitaxel had significantly fewer circulating cancer cells in the blood compared to mice that were not treated or even treated with paclitaxel alone.

A few drugs have shown promise in cell culture or animal models, but clinical trials in humans are time consuming because of the slow onset and progression of the disorder's clinical symptoms.

One 2014 study based on modeling animal movement found that increasing vehicle density on existing roads, rather than adding more roads with lower density, resulted in fewer wildlife fatalities.

«Despite the prevalence of abnormal sleep patterns in PD, very few studies to date have outlined sleep disturbances in animal models of PD,» says Sarah M. Rothman, PhD, a researcher with the National Institute on Aging, in Baltimore, MD..

Model behavior So far, there are only a few autism studies in which the sex of animals seems to make a difference, but that may be because scientists have only just begun to look.

Though they found a few elements of the fossilized skull, the researchers chose to model the skull after a few well - preserved skulls of smaller animals related to titanosaurs, and «scaled it up to the size that this animal would be,» Norell said.

Of the many thousands of compounds tested in cells and in animal models each year, only a few will enter clinical trials.

Over the last few years, scientists have been able to recreate accurate models of human organs by embedding living tissue onto chips, allowing them to study the effects of drugs and diseases without testing on animals or humans.

«Using an animal model that's relevant to human disease, Fouchier and Kawaoka have shown that relatively few mutations may be required for an influenza virus to evolve into astrain that can pass effectively between individuals and cause serious illness.

Compared with those of control animals, the hippocampi of the model mice had fewer gamma waves during sharp - wave ripples, but gamma waves during theta waves were unaffected.

«Treatment for these people is greatly needed, and there really are very few highly valid animal models of the disorder,» said Shanahan, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago.

After discussing similar effects in other animal models of cancer and a few studies showing the ability of antioxidants to prevent cancer growth, Campbell concluded that «a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant - based foods decreased tumor development.»

Each features a range of intriguing artefacts, including carved animals, parrot masks, a model of the Michelin man, an inflatable dinosaur, to name but a few.