Sentences with phrase «using other animal models»

Researchers are, however, continuing to explore microbiome interactions using other animal models.

Not exact matches

Animal model testing is already underway, and Mikovits notes that her team is looking into some reverse transcriptase inhibitors that have already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for other uses.

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.

The scientific model used to explore human minds applies to other animals.

«I'm hopeful the techniques successfully used in this study can be applied to make animal models for other neurodegenerative diseases,» he says.

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.

Using a mathematical model that combines a huge number of cattle and badgers that have TB, the researchers were able to quantify the relationship between the two animals and use a big data approach to show that the route of infection for cattle is from other cattle rather than from other species.

«The development of this microfluidic lung model, as well as other organs - on - chip, holds the promise of improving the physiological relevance of cellular models for more accurate prediction of the effects of toxicants and drugs on humans, and for reducing the use of animals in medical and pharmaceutical research,» said Sonia Grego, Ph.D., research scientist at RTI and the project's principal investigator.

PBPK modeling is used in pharmaceutical research and development and in health risk assessment to predict the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of a compound in humans and other animal species.

Here we used our knowledge of the developmental biology of many other animal models to provide the positive and negative signaling factors to guide the developmental choices of these tissue and organ stem cells.

By tweaking an animal's DNA or using other means to inflict changes in their cells and tissues, some organisms can closely model human diseases.

When mice, fish and other animals are used in medical research, they are called models.

The Carnegie Mellon University researchers, who have worked with Goldman on relating the locomotion of other animals to robots, demonstrated that theoretical models developed to describe the complex motion of robots can also be used to understand locomotion in the natural world.

Using the wheel lock model and other animal models for studying childhood obesity is giving scientists more insight on exactly what happens when activity is restricted during youth, leading to obesity.

They may be used to understand normal or abnormal structure and function or determine the efficacy of treatments where no other suitable animal models exist.

The research team now concentrates on using CBS - based therapy in other animal infection models, e.g. urinary tract infection (UTI), hoping to offer a more extensive approach to combat with antibiotic resistant superbugs.

Today, scientists can study HD using «model» mice, flies, sheep, and other animals.

She also speculates that interspecies transmission of microbes — from dogs to humans, say, or the other way around — could affect interspecies altruism, another prediction that could be tested using animal models.

Emerging evidence from animal models and clinical trials suggest keto may be therapeutically used in many other neurological disorders, including head ache, neurodegenerative diseases, sleep disorders, bipolar disorder, autism and brain cancer.

Clinical Skills Laboratory Support Fund Using models and other animal alternatives, the Clinical Skills Laboratory integrates the classroom with the clinical setting by providing an instructional space for veterinary students to practice, develop, and refine technical and diagnostic skills in a supportive environment.

Require the animal shelter to maintain and publish on its website or other public location, (i) a list of animal welfare organizations requesting notice of scheduled destructions and (ii) statistical release rates by quarter and annually for the prior three years using models and formulas developed in the Asilomar Accords of 2004.

Other states could easily adopt similar laws, using ALDF's Model Animal Protection Laws Collection, which includes statutory language for civil injunctive relief for criminal violations.

«THE IFAW LIFETIME DEDICATION AWARD GOES TO CELIA HAMMOND - One of the top models in the 60's appearing on countless Vogue covers, Celia used her modelling career as a platform from which to campaign against the fur trade, factory farming, vivisection, and other animal abuses.

This is an important number because it'll be used in all kinds of other research, such as climate models, studies on animal and plant habitats and biodiversity, etc..