Sentences with phrase «research animal models»

Hakan Tarakci, a 23 - year - old graduate student at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, was attracted by the opportunity to learn about a variety of research animal models.

Access unique research animal models through Wake Forest Innovations, including a world - class nonhuman primate center and other large animal research models.

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What's more, this research actually confirms the creationist view (and the particlar flood model) that animals can adapt much faster than evolutions say

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.»

Studies show that these models can accurately predict the ways that new drugs will react in the human body and replace the use of animals in exploratory research and many standard drug tests.

New research from an international group led by Min Zhao, professor of ophthalmology and of dermatology at the University of California, Davis, shows that, in animal models of diabetes, slow healing is associated with weaker electrical currents in wounds.

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.

He even secured the mouse as the official animal model for government - funded cancer research.

Using gene editing to create rodents that are ideal research models could narrow the genetic divide between humans and their animal stand - ins.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

The research, published today in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrated that brief treatment with a very low dose of romidepsin, a Food and Drug Administration - approved anti-cancer drug, restored social deficits in animal models of autism in a sustained fashion.

The key problem for research on smallpox is that there is no good animal model for the disease.

Hackett said, «Studies of human immunology are usually not the first choice for research in basic immunology, but it is very important now to understand how humans differ from animal models.»

Senior author Byungkook Lim, an assistant professor in the Neurobiology Section, said the results require much more study and evaluation to be applied to humans with depression, but the new research in animal models provides solid grounding.

New research from McLean Hospital neuroscientists shows in an animal model that being bullied can have long - term, dramatic effects on sleep and other circadian rhythm - related functions, symptoms that are characteristic of clinical depression and other stress - induced mental illnesses.

«Before our work in rhesus monkeys, it has not been possible to detect or observe some of these symptoms in other HD animal models, especially emotional dysregulation,» says senior author Chan, associate professor of human genetics at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory University School of Medicine.

A new study by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) found no evidence of increased aggressive behavior toward strangers in an animal model of the condition.

Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) have shown in a mouse model that the epigenetic * modification of the Igfbp2 ** gene observed in the young animal precedes a fatty liver in the adult animal later in life.

As noted by Dr. Vicki Ellingrod — the Chair of this session, «Current state - of - the - art research in both animal models as well as humans point to the link between the gut microbiota and mood and anxiety models, as well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.»

It is shocking that Science would take the time and effort to highlight and chronicle the sentiments of someone whose sole mission is to derail biomedical research that is dependent on animal models.»

Animal models come with some uncertainty, cautions biochemist James Stevens of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., but he says «it's probably the hemagglutinin switch which is going to be one of the critical events» in a future pandemic.

A good model system for research is provided by Oesophagostomum dentatum, a roundworm which infects the large intestines of pigs, slowing the animals» growth and leading to significant economic losses.

The study took advantage of an important large animal model of SMA, the SMA piglet developed by the research group.

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.

Haynes said the research team's insights would be tested in animal models.

Whales and dolphins could provide a useful model for research into such impacts, largely because their sounds are relatively easy to study: They are among the loudest noises any animal has ever made, reaching as much as 188 decibels in the blue whale.

«Whether an insulating effect of obesity exists is of significance both for humans and for animal models of obesity,» the research team wrote.

Typical pain treatment research begins with an animal model — one that uses only male mice.

Likewise, Michael Meaney, a McGill neurobiologist, had been talked into attending by the same colleague, who thought Meaney's research into animal models of maternal neglect might benefit from Szyf's perspective.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Celresearch into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the CelResearch (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

Its research includes a cluster of related interdisciplinary projects that examine disparities in breast cancer mortality between African - American and Caucasian women using animal models, molecular characterization of tumors, and behavioral research focused on social - environmental factors.

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.

Dr. Michael M. Yartsev, Research Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammaliaResearch Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammaliaresearch prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain.

Using electrophysiology and pharmacological tools, the research has shown that a potassium channel, specifically the BK channel, in the central nervous system can be regulated with drugs to increase or decrease these disruptions in animal models.

Now, a trio of studies in the July issue of Nature Medicine opens new avenues for plaque research by presenting a new animal model for plaque formation, a diagnostic tool for spotting them, and a possible way to break them down.

To test this theory, the research team designed an experiment to see if increased LPA signaling led to schizophrenia - like symptoms in animal models.

A research team led by Timothy R. Nurkiewicz, Ph.D., associate professor in the WVU School of Medicine Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and researcher in the Center for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences, is finding inhalation of engineered nanomaterials negatively impacts gestational development in animal models.

While most research studies begin in test tubes, cells grown in the laboratory and animal models before moving to humans, the opposite is true here.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified a molecule in the brain that triggers schizophrenia - like behaviors, brain changes and global gene expression in an animal model.

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

The research showed that moral decisions in the con?ned scope of unavoidable traffic collisions can be explained well, and modeled, by a single value - of - life for every human, animal, or inanimate object.

«The nature of this research allows us to study the mechanisms of injury and recovery directly in humans rather than in animal models,» Dr. McCrea said.

He sees the capability of using the team's research in the future to design models that will help game managers, conservation managers, farmers and tour operators predict animal migration, whether it's zebras or other migratory animals.

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.

«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.

«There hasn't been a good animal model for any kind of speech disorder,» says study author Wan - chun Liu, a senior research associate in Fernando Nottebohn's Laboratory of Animal Behanimal model for any kind of speech disorder,» says study author Wan - chun Liu, a senior research associate in Fernando Nottebohn's Laboratory of Animal BehAnimal Behavior.

Using an animal model, the research team replicated cocaine addiction by allowing rats to self - administer as much cocaine as they wanted (up to 40 doses) during a six - hour period.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed an animal research model for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) to be used for muscle regeneration research as well as studies of the effectiveness of potential therapies for FSHD.

One intriguing development is a potential animal model for smallpox developed by virologist Peter Jahrling of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland, and his colleagues.

The journal's home page explains that translational medicine «builds on basic research advances — studies of biological processes using cell cultures, for example, or animal models — and uses them to develop new therapies or medical procedures.»