Sentences with phrase «line models of diseases»

Most of those findings came from studies in cell line models of diseases, however.

Not exact matches

The study involved laboratory cell lines of human leukemia and mouse models of the disease.

«The ongoing line of work with this drug is an excellent example of the bench getting even closer to the bedside — our lab work with the drug in patient - derived xenograft models of disease makes possible the clinical trials taking place at the University of Colorado Hospital next door,» Jimeno says.

The scientists then tested three new mTOR inhibitors currently under development (pp242, AZD8055 and INK128) in combination with the chemotherapies AraC, Etoposide and Cisplatin to see how they affected laboratory lines of leukemia cells and mouse models of the disease.

He hopes the model will be useful for future predictions along these lines, such as looking at pathways of disease progression.

«We compared the ability of RSV and parainfluenza virus (PIV3)-- another common virus in children that causes much less severe airway disease — to infect and cause inflammatory responses in a cell culture model of human epithelial cells, which compose the lining of the lung airway.

The researchers hope their new cell lines will be a useful resource for studying the cellular and molecular intricacies of Huntington's further, and suggest they may provide a model for examining other diseases of the brain that are specific to humans.

They show that this new formulation reduces the minimal curative dose in a disease model, based on infections in mice, by 100-fold and, most importantly, circumvents drug resistance in a cell line that is resistant as a result of mutations in the transporter that mediates drug uptake.

Some ethicists suggest that tissue donors deserve a share of the tremendous commercial potential of iPS cell lines as disease models, drug - testing platforms or treatments.

We postulate that HD mutant hPSC (embryonic or induced) lines can constitute such models and would be key to the exploration of the molecular mechanisms of the disease and ultimately allow the screening of therapeutic compounds endowed with a therapeutic potential.

Investigating mouse models for biological for research The congress aims to promote the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) mouse lines, importance of mouse phenotyping & clinical and drug discovery collaboration, to present progresses performed by IMPC with regards CRISPR editing genome, rare diseases, microbiota and ageing pipeline, as well as illustration of examples of scientific projects about «Animal models for human diseases» and recent developments in mouse models phenotyping imaging.

Historically, researchers have generated their own lines of knockout mice to serve as models for human disease, such as heart disease or cancer.

Human primary hepatocytes and immortalized cell lines (e.g., HepaRG) are used to study these disorders, but due to these cells» high variability, low availability, short assay window, or lack of physiological relevance, researchers studying metabolic diseases are searching for more robust and reliable models.

«Our decision to procure these knockout mouse lines and data and make them available to the research community will yield tremendous benefits, both in the short and long terms,» said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. «This trans - NIH initiative will place important mouse models into the hands of researchers, speeding advances in the understanding of human disease and the development of new therapies.

Due to the high efficiency of establishing organoid models from different tissues and diseases, such as cancer, organoid technology allows the generation of large living biobanks of tumor organoids that are amenable for middle - throughput drug screens and may allow personalized therapy design, as a complement to cell line and xenograft - based drug studies (7,19).

To create cell models for the discovery of disease etiology, progression, and treatment, isogenic cell lines can be created from healthy or sick individuals, then compared (Figure 1).

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NYSCF partners with a broad range of institutions, foundations, centers and companies in a variety of ways ranging from the creation of fundamental research resources such as iPSC lines for a disease area to developing human disease models in vitro to enable drug discovery and toxicity testing.

To better understand this complex tissues and its functions — and the diseases that affect it — a multicenter team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital has released a census of the cells that make up the lining of the small intestine, using gene expression profiles of more than 53,000 individual cells from the mouse gut or gut organoid models.

Akassoglou's laboratory uses mouse models of blood - driven neural inflammation and autoimmunity to explore further the role of fibrinogen in MS, and she is now pursuing similar lines of investigation on other neurological diseases.

The congress aims to promote the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) mouse lines, importance of mouse phenotyping & clinical and drug discovery collaboration, to present progresses performed by IMPC with regards CRISPR editing genome, rare diseases, microbiota and ageing pipeline, as well as illustration of examples of scientific projects about «Animal models for human diseases» and recent developments in mouse models phenotyping imaging.

The article describes the generation and characterization of the TNFΔARE line, a unique model that develops both arthritis and Crohn's disease.

Complementary phenotypic characterization of a genetically modified animal model of Parkinson's Disease: Line 61 S. RAMBOZ, K. CIRILLO, R. SPRINGER, M. MAZZELLA, M. WINDISCH and K. WALKER... Abstract / Posters

The research lines of the Bakkers group include unraveling the genetics of normal cardiac development and body axis formation during development, investigating the molecular mechanisms of heart regeneration in the zebrafish and how this can be compared to heart injury in the mammals, and modeling of human (cardiac) disease in the zebrafish to unravel biological mechanisms behind the disease and to identify new drug targets.

Speakers will discuss applications of patient - specific and disease - specific stem cell lines, including gene repair (via tools such as the Cas9 nuclease), disease modeling, drug screening, and regenerative medicine.

By developing a simple chemically defined culture system permitting efficient differentiation of numerous human iPS cell lines toward cells of a mature hepatic state, we now demonstrate the possibility of modeling groups of diseases of non-neuronal origin whose phenotypes are a consequence of complex protein dysregulation within adult cells.