Sentences with phrase «treat animal disease»

They perform research on animals to prevent, diagnose, and treat animal disease, and some perform laboratory work related to diagnosing and controlling diseases that are difficult to identify or manage.

Many veterinary prescribed medications are used to treat animal diseases.

By being a partner, veterinarians, practices and clinics can help find new ways to detect, prevent or treat animal diseases.

Not exact matches

Where is the clear line in a progression from (1) using animal insulin to treat diabetes, to (2) using gene remodeling techniques to grow insulin in a host bacterium that will reproduce rapidly and from which a plentiful supply of insulin can be harvested, to (3) genetic surgery to replace the defective gene in a person diagnosed as diabetic, to (4) genetic surgery immediately after fertilization in order to replace the defective gene and alter the germ cells which would otherwise have transmitted the disease to one's offspring?

Stanozolol: This synthetic anabolic steroid istypically used to treat a rare immune disease in humans and to increaseappetite, muscle mass and energy in animals — often horses recovering fromillness or injury.

Findings of the research, published April 22 in the journal Mucosal Immunology, reveal that a substance found in animal and human breast milk called epidermal growth factor, or EGF, blocks the activation of a protein responsible for unlocking the damaging immune cascade that culminates in NEC, a disease marked by the swift and irreversible death of intestinal tissue that remains one of the most - challenging - to - treat conditions.

Proponents, however, insist that animal research has played, and is continuing to play, a vital role in treating and preventing many illnesses and diseases once thought incurable.

NOAH Chief Executive Dawn Howard says: «We endorse the proposal for incentives to develop innovative new treatments and better diagnostics: these must include the veterinary sector, so that animal medicines are available to treat the diseases that vets and farmers encounter.

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.

«Gene - delivery system prevents vision loss from inherited eye disease: Initial testing in animal models holds promise for treating Leber congenital amauroisis and other congenital visual disorders.»

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.

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.

The UCLA researchers plan to develop strategies to test the Duchenne - specific CRISPR / Cas9 platform to treat the disease in animals as the next step toward perfecting a method that can be used in humans.

Osteocalcin, sclerostin and LCN2 might also be involved in treating diseases someday, if results in animals apply to people.

As for whole - animal cloning, I believe the only reason for doing it is for the purposes of treating disease.

Some 40 percent of that total is given to animals, mostly to promote growth rather than treat disease.

The specimens come from a variety of animal species, including okapi, platypus, and sloth, and are embedded in paraffine wax as soon as they arrive to the lab, where scientists study them to help vets diagnose and treat eye diseases.

An FDA approved drug to treat renal cell carcinoma appears to reduce levels of a toxic brain protein linked to dementia in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases when given to animals.

Veterinarians have an important role to play not only in treating the disease, but also in ensuring that infected horses are kept away from other animals until they have fully recovered from the illness.

«Gaining a better understanding of the functions genes perform in cells, whether plant or animal, is going to help us understand how to diagnose and treat diseases in humans,» says Richard K. Wilson of Washington University.

The fat, they found, was required to turn on genes that protected the animals and cells from Huntington's disease, revealing a new pathway that could be harnessed to treat the disease.

Scientists have successfully treated the deadly Ebola virus in infected animals following onset of disease symptoms, according to a report published online today in Science Translational Medicine.

The experimental design differed significantly from the team's earlier work — this time, infected animals were not treated until they developed measurable symptoms of disease.

All of the animals that received high - dose favipiravir were completely protected from lethal infection; animals treated seven or nine days after infection had begun showing signs of disease, but their conditions quickly improved when treatment began.

The animals treated with ribavirin appeared normal during the treatment phase but developed severe disease shortly after treatment ended.

Researchers found that FTIs not only prevented cardiovascular damage in young mice, but also reversed the disease in older animals treated after the onset of arterial damage.

He added that the existence of episodic memory in lower animals has implications for research on human diseases that affect memory, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, since the majority of research on the brain — and the drugs used to treat memory diseases and dementia — start out based on insights into how the brain works in rats.

In a development that could lead to a new generation of drugs to precisely treat a range of diseases, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have for the first time designed a drug candidate that decreases the growth of tumor cells in animal models in one of the hardest to treat cancers — triple negative breast cancer.

The researchers next investigated whether ultrasound - enhanced drug delivery could effectively treat disease in animals.

ASCB President Don Cleveland of the University of California, San Diego, said his team just published an animal study on a gene silencing therapy for treating a form of Lou Gehrig's disease that they now hope to move to clinical studies.

«Large animal models of human disease, like cats, are really helpful for determining what's going to happen in a child when you're treating them,» Vite said.

UBC researcher Eric Brown UBC created an animal model of malnutrition that replicates the imbalance of gut bacteria associated with the difficult - to - treat disease.

Animal studies show dangerous side effects from virus increasingly used to deliver DNA to treat diseases.

The next step will be to demonstrate efficacy in larger animal models, as well as test whether this approach can be used to protect against or treat other diseases.

This makes it very difficult for us to treat bacterial diseases, as many antibiotics are becoming redundant, limiting the treatments available to people and animals.

The initial aim of the research was to use an animal's milk production system as a factory of sorts, manufacturing proteins to treat human diseases.

Treating animals for a disease that can spread to humans is not unprecedented: The rabies vaccine routinely administered to pets in the developed world, for example, prevents the infection in animals, which in turn protects people.

Although the scientific community widely sees nonhuman primates as essential for advances in biomedicine (they have facilitated major gains in the fights against AIDS and neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, for example), researchers agree more can be done to treat the animals more humanely and conduct research less wastefully.

In animal models of disease, iPSCs have been used to treat sickle cell anemia, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, spinal cord injuries, and heart failure.

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, the Center for Neurologic Study and Isis Pharmaceutical Corporation have designed and tested a molecular therapy in animals that they hope will be a major development in the fight to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.

[19] In the current study, [15] PDGF - AS mice exhibited an increased number and intensity of areas staining for reactive microglia (using Iba1) and astroglia (using GFAP), but vaccination with AFF 1 prevented nearly all of this disease - associated excess, with treated animals exhibiting only the burden of reactive glia present in similar - aged WT mice.

[15] AFF 1 vaccination preserved sufficient functionality to allow treated model PD mice to cling on for 19 s. Hindlimb engagement is by analogy a, particularly suggestive outcome for animal models of a disease of fine motor control impairment.

To test this effect on disease, the researchers used a mouse model of MS and treated the animals with a drug that inhibits SIRT1.

Determining the mechanism for these sex - based differences in airway inflammation and the contribution of the microbiome in animal models would improve our ability to treat or prevent asthma and other autoimmune diseases in women.

Among the newly funded investigations are: the development of animal models of diabetic eye disease to learn how fenofibrate, a drug clinically - approved to treat cholesterol, protects the eye from diabetes - related damage; the development of a specialized camera to capture how the retina's rods and cones (responsible for turning light energy into shapes and colors) work in health and how they fail in retinal diseases; and the exploration of mechanisms by which intestinal tract bacteria impact the health of the eye.

Tsetse are the insect vector of the trypanosomiasis parasite which causes disease in animals (with major knock - on effects on the farmers who are financially dependent on their livestock), and sleeping sickness in people (fatal when not properly treated).

Our findings support preventing and treating these diseases by eating more fat - rich foods like walnuts, sunflower seeds, soybeans, flaxseed, fish and other vegetable oils and spreads, in place of refined grains, starches, sugars and animal fats,» said study co-leader Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian.

John A. McDougall, M.D., is an American physician and author whose philosophy is that degenerative disease can be prevented and treated with a plant - based diet of whole, unprocessed, low - fat foods, especially starches such as potatoes, rice, and beans, and which excludes all animal foods and added vegetable oils.

Dr. Greger has said that animal saturated fat is the cause of many diseases in this country and that the vegan diet is maybe too effective at treating many illnesses in America.

Both animal models and recent clinical evidence support this new paradigm and provide the rationale for innovative approaches to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases.