This splendid Maine Coon is specialized
in animal therapy and animation.
Several years of volunteer work in a cat shelter and training
in animal therapy allowed her to learn much about cat and dog behavior.
She is certified
in animal therapy and aviculture, with years of animal training experience.
«I was always interested
in animal therapy,» Meyer adds.
As animal lovers, it is important we continue to follow the latest studies
in animal therapies so we can inform people who might benefit from the information, but as Soulpaws shows us, it is equally important to make sure that the animals who help their humans on a daily basis are also being looked out for as well.
Not exact matches
By working with
therapy handlers, dog trainers and zookeepers, they see how keeping
animals active and engaged
in small spaces is a challenge and work on ways to fix it.
The foundations of behavior
therapies were constructed by the Russian physiologist Pavlov's experiments
in conditioning
animals early
in this century.
Some of our debates might have resulted
in families spending thousands on
therapy animals and psychiatric treatment.
Your baby won't be
in therapy down the road because you didn't buy the Elmo cake topper or the make the zoo
animal cake pops.
He is currently working towards a PhD
in Psychology at Washington State University where his research interests focus on play
therapy,
animal assisted interventions, and the human -
animal relationship.
She has voted
in favor of child protection legislation, including making illegal sexual orientation conversion
therapy on minors, public safety initiatives, and various
animal protection bills.
The researchers caution that the booster
therapy used
in their new study will not be available on the market or even for use
in human trials anytime soon; it must await years of
animal testing for safety and effectiveness first.
«These data I think [are] the validation, at least
in animal models, that this messenger RNA
therapy could work.»
The finding is far from definitive evidence of safety, but it's some of the first published
animal research supporting the use of this type of RNA as long - term
therapy in diseases like methylmalonic acidemia (MMA).
p11 is increased
in rodent brains by antidepressants or electroconvulsive
therapy, but decreased
in an
animal model of depression and
in brain tissue from depressed patients.
The laboratories also collaborated to successfully prove that reversing a protein deficiency through gene
therapy is effective
in improving and stabilizing SMA
in a large
animal model.
In the GD2 CAR - T treated
animals, the residual cancer cells did not express GD2, suggesting that these remaining cells were not vulnerable to the immune
therapy and might be able to cause the cancer to recur.
The new method may make some types of gene
therapy easier and could be a boon for researchers hoping to control gene activity
in animals, scientists say.
A new study has found that stem cell
therapy can reduce lung inflammation
in an
animal model of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis.
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers say their
animal study, published online
in Endocrinology, provides the strongest evidence to date on the mechanism of this ancient Chinese
therapy in chronic stress.
Inhibitory cell - based neuro -
therapy is a new approach and has shown promise to date
in early
animal studies, warranting further development,» says Cory Nicholas, a co-first author.
Using a new technique to deliver gene -
therapy - like intervention directly where it's needed, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University successfully increased or decreased the muscle tone of the anal sphincter
in appropriate
animal models.
The journal provides cutting - edge research including results from
animal models that are likely to apply to patients, studies
in human tissue that provide new information about
therapies or disease, and innovative reports of drug discovery and development.
Because the researchers found that CTLA4Ig was effective
in suppressing hepatitis
in this study, they suggest that CTLA4Ig should be among the therapeutic options investigated further as a potential
therapy for patients with severe acute hepatitis B. To this end, this
animal model is useful for virological and immunological analysis of HBV infection.
Estrogens have been reported to exert protective vascular effects
in animal and observational but randomized clinical trials did not report such effects
in older women, even suggesting the possibility of an increased CVD risk
in this setting, especially with combined estrogen plus progestin
therapy.
The team also compared the
animals» responses to the
therapy's effects
in laboratory cell samples and found that
in vitro studies did not predict how well the viral
therapy and immune response would fight tumor cells
in vivo.
The brochures contain information about toxicology, pharmacology, and
animal safety studies used to determine the potential risk a particular
therapy may pose to humans, but they also include efficacy studies done
in animal models to demonstrate a
therapy's potential benefit.
The ability to treat large areas of the spinal cord for extended periods of time
in animals «will be important for scaling up to the larger human spinal cord for future translation of this
therapy to the clinic,» she added.
Vassaux's team next plans to test gene
therapy carried by nanoparticles on a variety of tumors
in animals.
«This landmark study draws the conclusion
in pre-clinical
animal studies that stem cell
therapy for disc degenerative disease might be a potentially effective treatment for the very common condition that affects people's quality of life and productivity,» said the senior author, Wenchun Qu, MD, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic
in Rochester, Minn..
They also published findings from an
animal study showing that the effect of stem cell
therapy following heart attack is indirect — the stem cells themselves do not survive long after being placed
in the heart, but they cause enduring effects by stimulating the rapid growth of surviving heart tissue and attracting stem cells already
in the heart, which mature into functional heart cells.
Stem cell
therapy is acknowledged as having great potential for the treatment of a variety of diseases
in both people and
animals.
«
In the group that was not treated with the gene
therapy, the majority of the
animals die from aplastic anemia, and they also die much sooner.»
In their report that has received advance online publication in Nature Nanotechnology, a research team based at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) describes how a nanomedicine that combines photodynamic therapy — the use of light to trigger a chemical reaction — with a molecular therapy drug targeted against common treatment resistance pathways reduced a thousand-fold the dosage of the molecular therapy drug required to suppress tumor progression and metastatic outgrowth in an animal mode
In their report that has received advance online publication
in Nature Nanotechnology, a research team based at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) describes how a nanomedicine that combines photodynamic therapy — the use of light to trigger a chemical reaction — with a molecular therapy drug targeted against common treatment resistance pathways reduced a thousand-fold the dosage of the molecular therapy drug required to suppress tumor progression and metastatic outgrowth in an animal mode
in Nature Nanotechnology, a research team based at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) describes how a nanomedicine that combines photodynamic
therapy — the use of light to trigger a chemical reaction — with a molecular
therapy drug targeted against common treatment resistance pathways reduced a thousand-fold the dosage of the molecular
therapy drug required to suppress tumor progression and metastatic outgrowth
in an animal mode
in an
animal model.
«Nanoparticles combine photodynamic and molecular
therapies against pancreatic cancer: Novel drug - delivery system cuts off common treatment escape pathways
in animal models.»
«We report here a gene
therapy dose - finding study
in a large
animal model of a severe muscle disease where a single treatment resulted
in dramatic rescue,» said Childers.
This was reflected
in how much more efficient PMIL - delivered treatment was
in the
animal models compared to either treatment alone, since PDT simultaneously sensitized the tumor to the second
therapy.
The results of Loke's new case study — the most recent of only five studies that investigate helminthic
therapy in people instead of
animals — suggest that helminths may ease the symptoms of autoimmune diseases by increasing mucus production.
When RNAi
therapies weren't delivered to the right tissues, dangerous side effects showed up
in humans that weren't predicted through
animal models.
Using gene
therapy to insert the gene, they expressed the synthetic gene
in adult mice or
in zebrafish embryos, and witnessed remote activation of neurons the presence of a magnetic field through the altered behavior of the
animals.
«The dog has a retina very similar to ours, much more so than mice, so when you want to bring a visual
therapy to the clinic, you want to first show that it works
in a large
animal model of the disease,» said lead researcher Ehud Isacoff, professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley.
The specificity of this DNA cutting activity has made CRISPR - Cas the darling of gene
therapy researchers, who have modified it to make precise changes
in the genomes of cultured cells, laboratory
animals, and even humans.
For the
animal experiments, Savio Woo of the Center for Gene
Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine
in Houston and his colleagues first isolated liver cells from transgenic mice that produce the human protein a1 - antitrypsin
in their livers, from where it is secreted into the blood.
Mind controls: Putting a light switch
in the brain With optogenetics, researchers can implant optical fibres to control genetically modified
animals — could gene
therapy bring it to humans?
His scientific work focuses on combining organoids, bioengineering, and
animal studies to regenerate damaged bile ducts
in the liver as an alternative
therapy to liver transplantation.
«We had previously shown that antiangiogenesis
therapies were ineffective
in animal models of lymphatic metastasis, but there was no data to explain the mechanism behind those observations,» says Timothy Padera, Ph.D., of the Steele Laboratory of Tumor Biology
in the MGH Department of Radiation Oncology, senior author of the paper.
Stoke
therapies that worked on small
animals such as mice more often than not proved ineffective
in human strokes.
This conference touched on a broad spectrum of topics encompassing scientific integrity, including gene
therapy, guidelines for
animal and human subject use, authorship, public health issues, and the involvement of minorities
in research.
When tested
in laboratory samples of leukemia cells and
in animals with human - like leukemia, the approach caused cancer cells to die much more quickly than with conventional targeted
therapies.
Experiments performed by coauthor Mireia Uribe - Herranz, PhD, a research associate
in Facciabene's lab, demonstrate that when ACT was performed on genetically identical
animals obtained from different vendors (Jackson Laboratory or Harlan Laboratories), which carry different microbiota, impact of the
therapy was not identical.