Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine, working with Chinese and American colleagues, have discovered a novel way to enhance and restore cancer suppressor activity in B - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, resulting in better outcomes in
a pre-clinical model of the disease.
Not exact matches
Durante said the next step will be a
pre-clinical trial to test glutamine's effect on a mouse
model of coronary artery
disease.
The researchers chose to test their delivery method with GDNF because the therapy has been shown to delay and even reverse
disease progression
of Parkinson's
disease in
pre-clinical models.
The objective
of Kogenix is to achieve the initial capital needed to advance in the
pre-clinical trials already being conducted with animal
models of Alzheimer's
disease.
Many
diseases can be detected at the surface
of tissues, including cancer, while many
pre-clinical studies are performed with animal
models and engineered three - dimensional tissues that can benefit from being monitored non-destructively.
the generation
of novel mouse
models of Cystic Fibrosis by exploring genetically - diverse murine populations that will provide unique tools for
disease modeling and
pre-clinical studies.
Likewise, reproducible, reliable and cost - effective determinations
of disease biomarkers detectable in body fluids are a requirement in
pre-clinical research carried out in mouse
models.
This call for projects «Mouse
models and rare
diseases» aims to give a significant boost to the development
of mouse
models, in order to: ◊ gain a better understanding
of the pathophysiological mechanisms involved in rare
diseases whose defective genes have been identified ◊ test and validate therapeutic proofs
of concept, at the
pre-clinical in vivo level Indeed, producing these
models meets a key objective in the development
of a therapeutic strategy.
Her group has developed
pre-clinical models of metastatic
disease that are used to identify genes, both in the tumour cells and in the tumour micro-environment that regulate the process
of metastasis to specific organs such as bone, liver, lung and brain.
Examples
of studies conducted with assistance
of the Center are
pre-clinical studies
of orthopedic devices intended for animal and human use, clinical studies
of treatment and prevention
of respiratory
diseases in horses and animal clinical trials evaluating the treatment
of bladder cancer in Scottish Terriers, an animal
model of human bladder cancer.