Scientists
need other animal models as well, and major breakthroughs have been made and are in the process of being made thanks to studies conducted with these animals:
Not exact matches
More work is
needed to determine whether the findings on rapamycin hold true in
animal models of Leigh syndrome and
other neurodegenerative diseases, and to ascertain how exactly rapamycin is altering the metabolism of the cells.
«Usually, when researchers want a mouse or
other animal model to express fluorescent proteins in certain cells, they
need to develop genetically modified
animals that can take months to years to make and characterize,» says former graduate student and first author Ken Chan (PhD» 17).
Effects of whole body vibration on the skeleton and
other organ systems in man and
animal models: What we know and what we
need to know.