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Centipede Venoms and Their Components: Resources for Potential Therapeutic Applications
Toxins, 2015 Venomous animals have evolved with sophisticated bio-chemical strategies to arrest prey and defend themselves from natural predators. In recent years, peptide toxins from venomous animals have drawn considerable attention from researchers due to their ...
Md Abdul Hakim, Shilong Yang, Ren Lai
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Dual mTOR/PI3K inhibition limits PI3K-dependent pathways activated upon mTOR inhibition in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease [PDF]
, 2018 Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by the development of kidney cysts leading to kidney failure in adulthood. Inhibition of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) slows polycystic kidney disease (PKD) progression in ...
Arcaro, Alexandre +10 more
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Animal models of psychiatric disease
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2008 Animal models of psychiatric diseases are useful tools for screening new drugs and for investigating the mechanisms of those disorders. Despite the difficulties inherent in modelling human psychiatric phenotypes in animals, there has been recent success identifying mutations in mice that give rise to some of the characteristic features of anxiety ...
Flint, J, Shifman, S
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Animal models of neurodegenerative diseases [PDF]
Nature Neuroscience, 2018 Animal models of adult-onset neurodegenerative diseases have enhanced the understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Nevertheless, our understanding of these disorders and the development of mechanistically designed therapeutics can still benefit ...
Ted M. Dawson +2 more
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Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2021 Influenza A virus may circulate simultaneously with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to more serious respiratory diseases during this winter. However, the influence of these viruses on disease outcome when both influenza A and SARS-CoV-2 are present in the ...
Linlin Bao +19 more
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Animal models of ulcerative colitis and their application in drug research [PDF]
, 2014 The specific pathogenesis underlying inflammatory bowel disease is complex, and it is even more difficult to decipher the pathophysiology to explain for the similarities and differences between two of its major subtypes, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative ...
Low, Daren +2 more
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Animal Models in Behçet's Disease [PDF]
Pathology Research International, 2012 Behçet's disease is a chronic, recurrent, multisystemic, inflammatory disorder affecting mainly the oral and urogenital mucosa and the uveal tract. Although the etiology and pathogenesis of Behçet's disease are unknown, numerous etiologies have been proposed, including environmental, infectious, and immunological factors; an autoimmune basis ...
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Bidirectional genetic overlap between bipolar disorder and intelligence
BMC Medicine, 2022 Background Bipolar disorder (BD) is a highly heritable psychiatric illness exhibiting substantial correlation with intelligence. Methods To investigate the shared genetic signatures between BD and intelligence, we utilized the summary statistics from ...
Meng-Yuan Shang +8 more
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Animal Models for Neural Diseases [PDF]
Toxicologic Pathology, 2010 “Animal Models of Neural Disease” was the focus of General Session 5 at a 2010 scientific symposium that was sponsored jointly by the Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) and the International Federation of Societies of Toxicologic Pathologists (IFSTP).
Ronald B. DeMattos +5 more
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Quality of Reporting and Adherence to ARRIVE Guidelines in Animal Studies for Chagas Disease Preclinical Drug Research: A Systematic Review [PDF]
, 2015 Publication of accurate and detailed descriptions of methods in research articles involving animals is essential for health scientists to accurately interpret published data, evaluate results and replicate findings. Inadequate reporting of key aspects of
García Bournissen, Facundo +2 more
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