Sentences with phrase «primate models of the disease»

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«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.

Thomas W Geisber, an expert on Ebola and siRNAs at The University of Texas Medical Branch, said the research was «highly significant because it shows protection against Ebola in a robust model of human disease: non-human primates.»

The mouse lemur — the world's smallest primate — has the potential to transform the field of genetics and serve as an ideal model for a wide range of primate biology, behavior and medicine, including cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers say.

Another potential, says Chan, is «the promise a nonhuman primate model holds for developing treatments that could alter the course of Huntington's disease.

Further, future studies will take advantage of the induced non-human primate animal model of endometriosis allowing for the measurement of microbial changes throughout disease progression.

This animal model closely resembles lesion kinetics as seen in human disease [34] and use of non-human primates allows for repetitive surgical sampling for multiple time point analysis.

At BPRC non-human primate (NHP) models of infectious diseases are available in high quality, using purpose - bred and MHC - typed animals.

With all stages of clinical Lyme disease having previously been described in nonhuman primates, this animal model was selected in order to most closely mimic human infection and response to treatment.

The use of nonhuman primates to model this disease provides the most accurate representation of human Lyme disease as demonstrated in this work.

My lab is is a research unit of the Department of Surgery located on the veterinary hospital campus, primarily focused on translational research using complex nonhuman primate (NHP) disease models and screening rodent models.