The phrase
"human patients" means people who are being treated or cared for in a medical setting.
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Those false lines were used in the early trials of two drugs that were later tested
in human patients with thyroid cancer.
These cells, derived from the skin cells
of human patients, have the same genetic makeup — including any potential disease - causing mutations — as the patient.
Having an accurate, predictive model in mice is a proof - of - principle that such a model could also work
for human patients in a hospital setting.
The scientists are able to use tissue not only from laboratory mouse models, but also
from human patients.
Laser therapy was first used
on human patients and now it is gradually being adapted as a valuable component of veterinary technology.
It just didn't make sense that
human patients receive a very specific rehabilitation program after a similar surgery, but for a dog the rehab was simply swimming.
Not too
many human patients will lie down on the equipment at the physical therapy office and refuse to do their exercises, even for bacon.
In most instances, expectations of outcomes for dogs appear to be higher than
what human patients expect for themselves if they undergo the same procedure.
Physical therapists have used therapeutic ultrasound on
human patients since the 1940s, and veterinarians have used it on animals since the 1970's.
Finally he ran an experiment on the
only human patient he could ethically recruit: himself.
While the focus of this study was the impact of maternal vitamin B12 deficiency on offspring in mouse models, there are promising parallels between these findings and data
from human patients.
But the stem cells also appeared to model the generation - to - generation repeat expansion seen
in human patients.
Even pups with disabilities themselves are welcome — and they may actually offer even more inspiration to
human patients with similar challenges.
In recent years, the branches of veterinary dentistry have expanded to include many techniques previously only performed
on human patients.
«We are now involved in studies which hope to determine whether some of the immunologic phenomenon we observed in our mouse models are representative of intestinal disease in
human patients who harbor genetic mutations which predispose them to develop colon cancer,» says Chung.
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 at the Hopkins School of Medicine's Center for Sensory Biology now have a greater understanding of the workings of the fruit fly's eye, an understanding that may one day
help human patients suffering from degenerative diseases of the retina.
An essential aspect of the research team's work with these medications is that both are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for their originally intended uses, which means they are considered safe for use
by human patients.
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.
Next Lagasse plans to replicate his experiments in pigs and hopes to implant
human patients within the next few years.
Favorite hangouts: Earlier this year, researchers found an Egyptian tomb bat in Saudi Arabia with a strain of the virus identical to that of the
first human patient; another team discovered that 50 camels from the area all tested positive for MERS - CoV antibodies, suggesting camels may be intermediary hosts.
«The dog is an invaluable model for exploring hereditary copper - storage diseases, and observations made in this study will benefit both canine and
human patient populations.»
While the animals» brains experience dramatically reduced blood flow during hibernation, just
like human patients after a certain type of stroke, the squirrels emerge from their extended naps suffering no ill effects.
Working with animal patients is not the same as working with
human patients because of the vastly different biomechanics of the quadruped.
They analyzed a large cohort of
human patient samples from the human kidney biobank managed by Susztak and found that the interconversion might also occur in patients with kidney disease and likely contributes to a condition when the kidneys can not remove enough acid from the body.
Although the strategy has yet to be fully tested in people, the new method could one day give doctors a quick way to develop a custom treatment for aggressive cancers like glioblastoma, which kills
most human patients in 12 — 15 months.
«Our canine companions are not only «Man's Best Friend,» but our study shows that dogs also can help
human patients pursue battles against various types of cancer,» said Dr. Jeffrey Trent, TGen President and Research Director and the study's senior author.
That finding indicates that very low numbers of the cells in the body could be enough to
protect human patients from maladies ranging from infections to cancer.
Central neuropathic pain is a prominent feature in 50 to 90 % of
adult human patients with syringomyelia.
In this study the team tested the patch on both pig skin, where they showed it could accurately track glucose levels across the range seen in
diabetic human patients, and on healthy human volunteers, where again the patch was able to track blood sugar variations throughout the day.
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When human patients with increased blood pressure were given medication and randomly assigned pets, those patients with pets performed better on stressful tasks, indicating a lower response to stress in this group; however, blood pressure scores did not differ in those with pets and those without.
These mitochondrial gene aging profiles will then be compared to profiles that we obtain from the muscle biopsies and autopsy tissues of
human patients harboring known pathogenic mtDNA mutations.
The objective of this project is to leverage
ongoing human patient exome and whole genome sequencing efforts to generate precision models...
They vastly outnumber
human patients so there is a greater possibility to learn from successful experiences and apply these to humans.
Unlike human patients, veterinary patients are often asymptomatic, and the UTI may be an incidental finding.
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