The results are «important both
for mechanistic study and also for potentially therapeutic developments,» said Yadong Huang of the University of California, San Francisco, and the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, who also was not involved in the work.
Introduced in 1992 by Kim and Chung (1), spinal nerve L5 / L6 ligation (SNL) in rats has become well recognized and accepted as an animal model
for mechanistic studies of peripheral neuropathy and for screening of novel analgesics.
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Not exact matches
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Mechanistic finding may help develop treatment
for Ice Bucket Challenge disease:
Study blames a fault in the cell's machine that cuts and pastes genetic instructions
for a deadly motor neuron disease.»
«It makes it much easier
for researchers working with barley to be focused on attainable objectives, ranging from new variety development through breeding to
mechanistic studies of genes.»
«This
study shows, that there is a
mechanistic explanation
for why fish may move, faced with a choice, and now we have a way of testing it,» Johansen said.
A new
study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania now offers the first
mechanistic explanation
for why this is the case.
These findings also suggest a
mechanistic basis
for potential treatments involving the painless electrical stimulation of the amygdala, which are currently being
studied in ongoing clinical trials.
Since scientists first decoded a draft of the human genome more than 15 years ago, many questions have lingered, two of which have been addressed in a major new
study co-led by a Princeton University computer scientist: Is it possible, despite the complexity of billions of bits of genetic information and their variations between people, to develop a
mechanistic model
for how healthy bodies function?
«In this
study, we identified a novel regulatory factor
for the Golgi - ER retrograde transport and a new
mechanistic connection between the physiological trafficking and the autophagic transportation of cellular material.»
«The new animal model opens the door
for scientists to conduct needed
mechanistic studies and identify preventative therapies to minimize this painful and debilitating condition,» Banga said.
They go on to say that «since no single broadly neutralizing antibody combines the entire range of
mechanistic features anticipated to support in vivo efficacy, our
study adds further evidence that combinations of such antibodies need to be considered
for human application.»
So far, «genome - wide association
studies» have identified variant DNA sequences showing statistical association with these and other complex diseases, but demonstrating a
mechanistic role
for these variants has proven elusive.
There is a clear need
for further
mechanistic studies to explore the role of PREX2 and mutations of PREX2 in cancer.
This
study is good example of a precision medicine themed approach to showing how a
mechanistic understanding of the differential gene expression can yield biomarkers that can be used
for early detection of disease, as well as potential therapeutic targets.
Also, through these
studies we solidified the
mechanistic understanding
for how p53 functions in the cytosol, which complements its pro-apoptotic role in the nucleus.»
Validating this original concept, we previously demonstrated that PGD - derived hES cells and their derivatives, which express the causal mutation implicated in the Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1), offer pertinent disease - cell models, applicable
for a wide systemic
mechanistic analysis ranging from functional
studies at the cellular level to a large - scale drug screening.
Validating this concept, we previously demonstrated that human pluripotent stem cells and derivatives which, express the causal mutation implicated in the Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1), offer pertinent disease - cell models, applicable
for a wide systemic analysis ranging from
mechanistic studies to therapeutic screening.
Our
mechanistic studies, in both mouse and human mammary cancer cells, indicate that leptin and LepR are necessary
for NANOG expression.
Experimental
studies of a purely phenomenological nature, with no theoretical or
mechanistic underpinning, are not appropriate
for publication in BJ.
This 3D proteomics brain data can be integrated with parallel 3D transcriptomic
studies to possibly provide insights to interesting targets
for either therapeutic intervention or further
mechanistic studies.
The discovery of CDHR3 as the probable receptor
for RV - C opens the way
for biological and
mechanistic studies.
From these cell based and clinical
studies, we have developed important
mechanistic ideas such as activation of protein kinase C, the role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and selective insulin resistance as some of the basic mechanisms
for the pathogenesis of diabetic microvascular and cardiovascular diseases which are now widely
studied by multiple laboratories.
The results provide a valuable resource
for future
studies aimed at a
mechanistic understanding of the function of O - GlcNAc on specific proteins during T cell activation.
Knowledge gained from
mechanistic studies may contribute to the design of allogeneic vaccine - based or adoptive immunotherapy
for breast cancer.
We chose to highlight a diverse set of biological processes and experimental systems to make the point that the principles of cross species analysis of basic gene function extend to the
study of all human disorders, and can lead to
mechanistic understanding of disease pathogenesis and rationale
for the development of new therapies.
The
study has earned high marks from researchers not on the soy industry's payroll, including Dan Sheehan, PhD and Daniel Doerge, PhD at the FDA's National Laboratory
for Toxicological research in Jefferson, Arkansas.who stated, «Given the great difficulty in discerning the relationship between exposures and long latency adverse effects in the human population and the potential
mechanistic explanation
for the epidemiological findings, this is an important
study.
«However, further
mechanistic studies are required to investigate whether irisin could act as a protective factor
for the development of cardiovascular disease and age - related disorders.
The current results provide a potential
mechanistic understanding
for the observed differences between Vitamin C in supplements vs food in prior
studies.
For the correlative and
mechanistic approaches,
studies and insights from the present give rise to the assumption that the same relationships will hold in the future.
Although we have not offered
mechanistic explanations
for these relationships, our findings are consistent with previous
studies linking a warming Arctic with extreme winter weather in NH mid-latitudes.