One Health – an Ecological and Evolutionary Framework for tackling Neglected Zoonotic Diseases [PDF]
, 2015 Understanding the complex population biology and transmission ecology of multihost parasites has been declared as one of the major challenges of biomedical sciences for the 21st century and the Neglected Zoonotic Diseases (NZDs) are perhaps the most ...
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A robust method for assessing mitochondrial function in healthy and diseased frozen cardiac tissue
Communications BiologyCardiovascular diseases are often associated with impairment in mitochondrial function. However, existing respirometry measuring mitochondrial function are limited by the necessity of fresh tissue samples.
Liangyu Hu +15 more
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Animal Models of Human Pathology [PDF]
BioMed Research International, 2011 Animal models of human pathologies, including naturally occurring, induced, or engineered animals, are valuable tools for understanding the physiopathology of the disease and discovering novel therapeutic targets and drugs. In fact, although scientific research has always relied on the use of cell cultures, information that is obtained through in vitro
Monica Fedele +2 more
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Rabbit models of heart disease. [PDF]
, 2008 Human heart disease is a major cause of death and disability. A variety of animal models of cardiac disease have been developed to better understand the etiology, cellular and molecular mechanisms of cardiac dysfunction and novel therapeutic strategies ...
Bers, Donald M, Pogwizd, Steven M
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Interspecies Knowledge Transfer for Facial Keypoint Detection
, 2017 We present a method for localizing facial keypoints on animals by transferring knowledge gained from human faces. Instead of directly finetuning a network trained to detect keypoints on human faces to animal faces (which is sub-optimal since human and ...
Gu, Xiuye, Lee, Yong Jae, Rashid, Maheen
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Interferon alpha suppresses alphaherpesvirus immediate early protein levels in sensory neurons, leading to the establishment of a latent infection [PDF]
, 2010 Alphaherpesviruses are a subfamily of the herpesviruses containing closely related human and animal pathogens, including human herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) and porcine pseudorabies virus (PRV)
De Regge, Nick +4 more
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Deadly Predators and Virtuous Buddhists: Dog Population Control and the Politics of Ethics in Ladakh [PDF]
, 2019 The region of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas has recently seen a rise in attacks by stray dogs, some of which have been fatal. The dogs’ claims on territory have not gone uncontested in an emotional landscape fraught with anxieties over religious ...
Gagné, Karine
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Animal and human health: tackling uncertainty through participatory modelling and simulation [PDF]
, 2017 Zoonoses–infectious diseases communicable between animals and humans–, drug resistance and environmental pollution are now causing serious health problems worldwide.
Binot, Aurélie, Duboz, Raphaël
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Social Dominance Orientation Connects Prejudicial Human-Human and Human-Animal Relations [PDF]
, 2014 Recent theorizing suggests that biases toward human outgroups may be related to biases toward (non-human) animals, and that individual differences in desire for group dominance and inequality may underlie associations between these biases.
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Animal-assisted interventions: making better use of the human-animal bond [PDF]
, 2014 In the third of Veterinary Record’s series of articles promoting One Health, Daniel Mills and Sophie Hall discuss the therapeutic effects of companion animals, the influence of pets on childhood development and how researchers are elucidating the true ...
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