Sentences with phrase «of animal disease models»

Since 2006 when Biomedcode was established, we have evaluated hundreds of therapeutics including novel biologics, biosimilars, biobetters and small molecules using a unique array of animal disease models closely mimicking the complexity of human inflammatory conditions.

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The Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research claims that «in some instances, reliance on inaccurate animal «models» of human disease have undoubtedly delayed medical progress.»

We do not cover developments of interest only to specialists, such as new animal models of a disease or the opening of new science research centres.

These findings allowed researchers to create a chimera virus: a mouse virus with a human viral gene that can be used to test molecules that inhibit human LANA protein in an animal model of disease, treating not only human herpes virus infection but also its associated cancers.

Further studies in animal models and patients (with altered TRPM7 channel function) have been initiated, in order to evaluate the efficacy and safety of magnesium as a therapeutic for this disease.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

The study of these highly unusual but devastating prion diseases has to date been thwarted by a lack of animal models that faithfully mimic the disease processes in humans.

Known as a triple transgenic model, the animals develop three key characteristics of the disease: memory impairment, amyloid plagues, and neurofibrillary tangles.

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.

Next, Ubogu and his team looked at an animal model of AIDP where they were able to block CD11b early in the disease process.

The identification of these genetic defects has fed back to create ever more realistic animal models of the diseases, as mentioned earlier for Huntington's disease.

These tools, coupled with animal models of disease and with the latest methodologies in genomics and proteomics, are leading to vast amounts of information about the nervous system under normal and pathologic conditions.

Nath's team is currently developing an animal model of Nodding syndrome to further study the disease and test potential therapies.

«We know that urate has neuroprotective properties in animal models, and an unusual convergence of human studies suggested its possible use as a disease - modifying strategy in Parkinson's; so the positive results of this trial are very encouraging.»

From accelerating the identification and validation of novel therapeutic targets, to creating better animal models of human diseases in a shorter time frame, to reducing the number of failed products, Crispr looks set to shave millions off R&D costs and boost drug discovery, she says.

A promising new avenue for treating hepatitis B has been reported by researchers at Hiroshima University who have developed a new animal model of the disease.

Neurologist Malcolm MacLeod of the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and his colleagues combed through papers reporting the efficacy of drugs in eight animal disease models and checked whether the authors reported four measures that are widely acknowledged to reduce the risk of bias.

Using animal models of precancerous polyps in the bowel, Chung and his team determined that certain types of immune cells within a chronically inflamed intestine can become rewired, causing them — paradoxically — to contribute to disease development rather than protect against it.

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.

«The study of this type of tumours has been problematic up to now due to the lack of cell models and the appropriate animal models,» says CNIC researcher Juan Carlos Ramírez, who adds that the difficulty of generating these chromosomal translocations had limited the availability of cells with this mark of the disease.

We have mouse models for many of these diseases, says Zeng, so we can treat the brains of affected animals with the same dye - and - dice approach.

Schmidt says, «These people can test compounds or antibodies in well - defined animal models that are representative of a human disease.»

Next, the research team will examine specifically whether these liver cells obtained from human embryonic stem cells in a dish help repair injured livers in preclinical animal models of liver disease.

Still, he says, other groups have arrived at opposing results regarding the role of T cells in the disease, in part, perhaps, because their animal models aren't the same.

This anxious behavior mirrored that of CdLS patients, while autopsied brain tissue from individuals with CdLS showed symptoms of disease that matched those of the experimental mice suggesting that they were a good animal model.

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.

Most animal studies of the disease are conducted with laboratory mice that have been genetically engineered and bred to model ALS, but for this research, investigators used rats with ALS because they more accurately portray the disease's variable course in humans.

Cultural stigma against diseases that some falsely believe to be weaknesses of character prevent people from coming forward for trials — a problem when there are no good animal models for diseases like depression and schizophrenia.

«Drug candidate stops extra bone growth in animal model of rare, genetic disease.»

While the mouse study does not prove a direct connection between Zika infection and microcephaly, Rossi said, it does underscore the urgent need for effective animal models to further study the course of disease and its transmission.

«There's a growing demand, as animal models aren't mirroring the diseases too well,» says David Dexter, director of the bank.

In a further step, the researchers used mathematical models to predict how an infectious disease would spread considering the changes in behaviour of the sick animals.

To tackle this problem, Patricia Lopes and her colleagues used a novel combination of experimental manipulations of free - living mice, radio frequency tracking of animals, social network analysis and disease modelling.

His laboratory already has shown that by inhibiting calcium channels in T - cells, they were able to prevent T - cell activation in animal models of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and colitis.

CDNF has shown strong neuroprotective and even restorative properties in animal models of Parkinson's disease as well as spinal and peripheral nerve injuries.

«Traditional methods of infectious disease research using animal models have provided limited information about disease progression until the study's endpoint, when investigators could analyze tissues from those animals,» he said.

«The next stage would be to repeat the study in primates, a more suitable animal model where HIV infection induces disease, in order to further demonstrate elimination of HIV - 1 DNA in latently infected T cells and other sanctuary sites for HIV - 1, including brain cells,» Dr. Khalili said.

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«Novel radiotracer measures olfactory neurons in animal models: Tracking deterioration in sense of smell could provide early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease.»

«If human organs on chips can be shown to be robust and consistently recapitulate complex human organ physiology and disease phenotypes in unrelated laboratories around the world, as suggested by early proof - of - concept studies, then we will see them progressively replace one animal model at a time.

The most important advancement in medicine in the last 25 years was the development of genetic modeling in animals, enabling us to figure out how fundamental mechanisms of physiology and disease work, such as in bone loss.

«Our work and that of our colleagues on stress and CRF have been mechanistically implicated in Alzheimer's disease, but agents that impact CRF signaling have not been carefully tested for therapeutic efficacy or long - term safety in animal models,» said the study's principal investigator and corresponding author Robert Rissman, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Neurosciences and Biomarker Core Director for the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study disease, but agents that impact CRF signaling have not been carefully tested for therapeutic efficacy or long - term safety in animal models,» said the study's principal investigator and corresponding author Robert Rissman, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Neurosciences and Biomarker Core Director for the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS).

In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.

«It has the potential to inform clinical practice and also guides us about the relevance of animal models of human disease and how we can reduce and refine their use.»

«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.

«There's a lot of literature that points to chondrodystrophy in dogs as an exciting animal model for degenerative disc disease in people,» said Bannasch, who also holds the Maxine Adler Endowed Chair in Genetics.

They choose a model, the K / BxN serum transfer model, in which disease severity can be precisely controlled, which allowed them to test the hydrogel in animals with different degrees of arthritis severity.

In the current study, published in Nature Communications, the scientists created a new animal model of disease to determine if BBB leakage can cause autoimmunity.

Scientists have developed the first true animal model of Huntington's disease, a progressive and often fatal deterioration of the central nervous system.

The worms could then be crushed and injected into animal models of different autoimmune diseases, and so could the «soup.»