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29 Apr 2024: We primarily use adult female mice, hamsters and guinea pigs to test our vaccines. ... There exists no cell-based model or less sentient model to test vaccines.

18 Jun 2021: 4. Test experiments, called pilot experiments, will be used to calculate the amount of a substance that we can safely inject into the animal. ... These test experiments will help us to work out how much this amount is but will only use a small number of

20 Aug 2021: The effects monitored in a similar way for example using a combination of the following: observation of general health and behaviour, regular blood tests, non-invasive imaging (e.g. ... Any models developed to test instruments or materials will take

18 Jun 2021: test interventions at early stages that decrease the severity of the disease and help the development of treatments. ... The same behavioural and gut function tests and endpoints will be applied as described above.

13 Sep 2021: mice, and; 4) in some cases, we will surgically transplant modified breast cells into the cleared breast tissue (Fatpad) of mice to test the effect of the certain genetic mutations on

30 Apr 2024: rodent models to test how well they remain detectable and/or functional over a defined period of time. ... The information gathered here will inform us which drug is best suited to take forward to test in the target animal species.

30 Apr 2024: endoscopy, bronchoscopy, MRI/CT/PET) and non imaging techniques (e.g. blood tests and functional assays).

18 Jun 2021: We will use this knowledge to develop and test new treatment strategies for pulmonary arterial hypertension and other related conditions. ... the length of the total process until we test the level of disease is 7 weeks.

18 Jun 2021: In the long-term (5-7 years), we expect that the findings of this study will result in the design of at least 1 human clinical trial to test the safety ... The purpose here will be to induce a disease, such as liver failure or diabetes, to test the

30 Apr 2024: licence. Furthermore, when possible, we will generate primary cell lines from mouse brains which will allow us to test some of our hypotheses in vitro prior to performing elaborate experiments that ... 1) We will perform pilot studies and in vitro tests

20 Aug 2021: We used computer-based mathematical descriptions of brain activity to make specific predictions that require fewer animals to test. ... For this reason, the majority of our behavioural tests involve positive reward rather than punishment, in order to

30 Apr 2024: This will create new opportunities to test new therapies that can stop inflammation, brain damage, and the subsequent development of neuropsychiatric disorders in the offspring. ... This has allowed us to test whether treatments will be (1) safe for

30 Apr 2024: After this she may undergo a glucose tolerance test (as described in point 5) prior to her being humanely killed and her tissues collected and stored for laboratory analyses. ... c) Glucose or insulin tolerance tests which require injection of either

20 Aug 2021: Pilot studies involve using a small number of mice to test the safety and efficacy of a method before using it on a larger number of mice.

19 Aug 2021: Over the same period, behavioural tests will be carried out once a week to test their ability to remain on a rotating cylinder and to cross a narrow beam. ... the expected number of studies to validate and test potential drugs for each project.

30 Apr 2024: We also want to test whether subcutaneous implants can be used to accurately monitor body temperature in the mice.

13 Sep 2021: To identify genes responsible for coloration differences we will test if it is possible to interbreed different species with different colour patterns using in vitro fertilisation methods. ... Gene modifications are confirmed by collecting tissue

13 Sep 2021: Validate modes of action by modifying targets in transgenic parasites to specifically test these ideas. • ... Additionally, there is currently no alternative to animal species that can be used to test with regards to vaccine or drug sensitivity studies

19 Aug 2021: For example, phenotypes that we find in genetically altered embryos are confirmed by direct comparisons to control (un-altered) animals following the same test conditions. ... All of our experiments are designed to use only the number of animals needed

18 Jun 2021: Then towards the end of the study we might perform a glucose tolerance test using an intraperitoneal (this means into the abdominal cavity) glucose injection. ... Before the glucose and insulin tolerance tests mice will be fasted for up to 6 hours.

13 Sep 2021: Because targets for these diseases are developing we are mostly focusing on helping the client with proof of concept studies, developing cell based assays to test their compounds in and then ... The techniques used for dosing with test agents and

13 Sep 2021: Thus, mental health disorders place a considerable burden on not only the affected individual, but also social and economic burdens on society.

29 Apr 2024: We aim to test the use of the mouse grimace scale for each protocol (https://nc3rs.org.uk/grimacescales).

13 Sep 2021: To get a better understanding of the models we will test known anti-cancer drugs to determine how well the tumours respond to therapies.

29 Apr 2024: World Health Organisation, General Medical Council, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons) and pharmaceutical organisations who may develop policies, diagnostic tests and therapies to combat sub/infertility, pregnancy complications and. ... It also

13 Sep 2021: prevent unnecessary suffering, we also use non-interventional behavioural tests to measure the impact of arthritis/colitis on an animal’s behaviour.

30 Apr 2024: During the in vivo (performed in or on living animals) experiment, blood sample will be taken to test the generation of an antigen specific antibody response.

20 Aug 2021: Fresh tissue is required by the client to run in vitro experiments to further the understanding of what causes disease and to test how drugs work. ... The client requires mice that have had their genes modified so that they can investigate what causes

13 Sep 2021: The number of animals that will undergo surgery will depend on the number of factors that we plan to test over the course of the project, but we envisage to use

13 Sep 2021: By doing so, we can test the activity of our new drug candidates on tumour growth in a more relevant way in a live animal. ... Our organization regularly uses a range of in vitro (taking place in a test tube or laboratory dish, outside a living animal)

13 Sep 2021: This will create new opportunities to test new therapies that can stop bad inflammation. ... After the identification of targets, we will then proceed to test our results in our mouse models of disease.

14 May 2024: RSVP at: https://www.the3rs.uni-tuebingen.de/en/event/3r-network-bw-webinar-9/ Papers and articles. • FDA no longer needs to require animal tests before human drug trials: FDA ... no longer needs to require animal tests before human drug trials |

30 Apr 2024: We currently use several tests, depending on the kind of imaging agent, before proceeding to animal studies as follows.

13 Sep 2021: Our research will study how and where the bacteria hide in the body to resist to vaccines and antibiotics and will test new innovative vaccines.

18 Jun 2021: This way we can test their safety before then testing them in a mouse. ... We can then use these cells to perform experiments that test our ideas about how human cells respond to treatments without having to use cells from mice beforehand.

25 Jan 2022: Home Office, test the claims and policies set out at the UBS website, interrogate the Project Licence. ... are submitted to the Home Office, to test the claims and policies set out at the UBS website,.

18 Jun 2021: short periods up to 4 hours of water restriction before behavioural tests.

30 Apr 2024: as in vitro (performed in a test tube, culture dish or elsewhere outside of a living organism) slice cultures.

30 Apr 2024: Potential refinements include increased monitoring if test animals show earlier clinical signs or weight loss.

30 Apr 2024: Gene modifications are confirmed by collecting tissue biopsies (e.g. by removing a very small piece of fin or collecting skin swabs), which are then used for genetic tests.

13 Sep 2021: In order to overcome these limitations and to provide a more ethical way to test smelling behaviour in mice, an automated testing apparatus called AutonoMouse has been recently developed.

14 May 2024: NC3Rs are recruiting researchers to test the recommendations. If you would like to be involved in the test please email: river@nc3rs.org.uk.

13 Sep 2021: short periods up to 4 hours of water restriction before behavioural tests.

30 Apr 2024: A key component of this project is to improve the diagnosis and treatment of human cancers; therefore, it is crucial to test and validate novel tools in preclinical models that involve

19 Aug 2021: Then, we will test whether the findings which result from the frog embryo experiments can be reproduced in higher animals, we use rodents because their neurobiology is similar to humans’.

19 Aug 2021: Isolated animals tend to gain more weight than controls; they are more responsive to stimuli predicting reward (in specific behavioural tests) and are hyperactive as measured by specific behavioural tasks. ... least 5 days a week (in average), but they

19 Aug 2021: In the case of new chemicals, pilot experiments will be used to test chemical toxicity.

18 Jun 2021: We will use some cell culture models, for example to test the effects of specific lipid species on metabolic function.

18 Jun 2021: of blood cancers, will test the effect of and suggest the likely benefit of earlier therapy. ... Examples of cell-targeting substances include drugs that have been shown to effectively inhibit tumour cell growth when tested "in a test-tube".

30 Apr 2024: 4. Test experiments, called pilot experiments (which use a smaller number of animals; typically 3) will be used to calculate the amount of a substance that we can safely inject into