A Variable CD3+ T-Cell Frequency in Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Associated With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Development in the LEW.1AR1-Iddm Rat [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 PURPOSE: The LEW.1AR1-iddm rat is an animal model of human type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), which arose through a spontaneous mutation within the MHC-congenic inbred strain LEW.1AR1 (RT1(r²)).
Dirk Wedekind +2 more
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A QTL on rat chromosome 7 modulates prepulse inhibition, a neuro-behavioral trait of ADHD, in a Lewis x SHR intercross [PDF]
Behavioral and Brain Functions, 2006 Background Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder with a substantial genetic component. The Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR), considered as a good animal model of ADHD, also show less anxiety-like ...
Ramos André +5 more
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Two inbred rat strains contrasting for anxiety-related behaviors show similar levels of defensive responses to cat odor [PDF]
Behavioral and Brain Functions, 2007 Rodents are known to display fear-related responses when exposed to the odor of natural predators, such as cats, even when they are totally naïve to these stimuli.
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Identification of a nutrient-sensing transcriptional network in monocytes by using inbred rat models on a cafeteria diet [PDF]
Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2016 Obesity has reached pandemic levels worldwide. The current models of diet-induced obesity in rodents use predominantly high-fat based diets that do not take into account the consumption of variety of highly palatable, energy-dense foods that are ...
Neus Martínez-Micaelo +7 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 Genetic background and age at first exposure have been identified as critical variables that contribute to individual vulnerability to drug addiction. Evidence shows that genetic factors may account for 40–70% of the variance in liability to addiction ...
Silvia Corongiu +7 more
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Low-anxiety rat phenotypes can be further reduced through genetic intervention. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: A previous study using an intercross between the inbred rat strains Lewis (LEW) and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR) identified a locus on chromosome 4, named Anxrr16, influencing an experimental index of anxiety and showing a ...
Gabriela Ferreira de Medeiros +3 more
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N-octanoyl-dopamine is an agonist at the capsaicin receptor TRPV1 and mitigates ischemia-induced [corrected] acute kidney injury in rat. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Since stimulation of transient receptor potential channels of the vanilloid receptor subtype 1 (TRPV1) mitigates acute kidney injury (AKI) and endogenous N-acyl dopamine derivatives are able to activate TRPV1, we tested if synthetic N-octanoyl-dopamine ...
Charalambos Tsagogiorgas +14 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2015 The rat is the most common animal model for the preclinical validation of neuroprotective therapies in spinal cord injury (SCI). Lipid peroxidation (LP) is a hallmark of the damage triggered after SCI.
Humberto eMestre +8 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2010 Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is mediated by CD4+ Th1 cells that mainly secrete IFN-γ and TNF-α, important cytokines in the pathophysiology of the disease.
Juliana Seger +5 more
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Zinc-finger nuclease mediated disruption of
BMC Immunology, 2012 Background Engineered zinc-finger nucleases (ZFN) represented an innovative method for the genome manipulation in vertebrates. ZFN introduced targeted DNA double strand breaks (DSB) and initiated non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) after pronuclear or ...
Zschemisch Nils-Holger +6 more
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