The scientists then exposed
humanized laboratory mice to either brain or skin extracts from two of the CJD patients.
Not exact matches
«We found — counterintuitively — that blocking this immune response against the virus had beneficial effects in lowering the amounts of virus and increasing the ability of the immune response to clear out the virus,» said Kitchen, who is also director of the UCLA
Humanized Mouse Core
Laboratory.
The
laboratory's Oncology Preclinical Services team, which offers preclinical efficacy studies using PDX and other models, including
humanized (hu)- NSG
mice, is also under his direction.