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Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology COVID-19 Virtual Workshop
AbstractThis brief report collects the program and abstracts of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology (SNIP) COVID-19 Virtual Workshop held on...
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Biological Sample Collection from Experimental Animals
Biological samples such as blood, urine and other body fluids are collected from laboratory animals for specific purposes. The methods used for the... -
Metabolic characteristics of transmembrane prolyl 4-hydroxylase (P4H-TM) deficient mice
Transmembrane prolyl 4-hydroxylase (P4H-TM) is an enigmatic enzyme whose cellular function and primary substrate remain to be identified. Its...
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Sex differences in metabolic phenotype and hypothalamic inflammation in the 3xTg-AD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
BackgroundAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is notably associated with cognitive decline resulting from impaired function of hippocampal and cortical areas;...
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Extracellular Matrix Glycation and Crosslinking in Mammary Tumor Progression
Breast cancer progression is accompanied by profound extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. A greater abundance of aligned fibrillar collagen is... -
Rat Models of Cardiorenal Syndrome and Methods for Functional Assessment
Cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) is a clinical disorder involving combined heart and kidney dysfunction, which leads to poor clinical outcomes. To... -
Insertion of a chimeric retrotransposon sequence in mouse Axin1 locus causes metastable kinky tail phenotype
BackgroundTransposable elements (TEs) make up > 50% of the human genome, and the majority of retrotransposon insertions are truncated and many are...
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miRNA Theranostic Nanoparticles Promote Pancreatic Beta Cell Proliferation in Type 1 Diabetes Model
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic autoimmune disorder which affects the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. A variety of strategies,... -
Regulation of Presynaptic Release Machinery by Cell Adhesion Molecules
The synapse is a highly specialized asymmetric structure that transmits and stores information in the brain. The size of pre- and postsynaptic... -
Behavioral and Metabolic Effects of ABCG4 KO in the APPswe,Ind (J9) Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
The pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is complex and involves an imbalance between production and clearance of amyloid-ß peptides (Aß),...
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Exercise 6: Clearance of Bacteria from Mouse Blood by the Reticuloendothelial System (RES)
The reticuloendothelial system (RES) also known as the mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS) is a functional network of phagocytic tissue macrophages.... -
Fundamentals of Pharmacokinetics to Assess the Correlation Between Plasma Drug Concentrations and Different Blood Sampling Methods
PurposeVarious blood collection methods were developed and used in the pharmacokinetic evaluation of drugs. However, the influence of different blood...
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Roles of Bak and Sirt3 in Paraquat-Induced Cochlear Hair Cell Damage
Paraquat, a superoxide generator, can damage the cochlea causing an ototoxic hearing loss. The purpose of the study was to determine if deletion of Bak ...
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Sustained-release ketamine-loaded lipid-particulate system: in vivo assessment in mice
Ketamine is used as an analgesic adjuvant in patients with chronic cancer–related pain. However, ketamine’s short half-life requires frequent dose...
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The NDUFS4 Knockout Mouse: A Dual Threat Model of Childhood Mitochondrial Disease and Normative Aging
Mice missing the Complex I subunit NADH:Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase Fe-S Protein 4 (NDUFS4) of the electron transport chain are a leading model of the... -
Amyloid plaques and normal ageing have differential effects on microglial Ca2+ activity in the mouse brain
In microglia, changes in intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca 2+ ] i ) may regulate process motility, inflammasome activation, and phagocytosis....
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An Introduction to Computational Pipelines for Analyzing Untargeted Metabolomics Data for Leishmaniasis
Metabolomics helps us to understand the metabolism of biological systems and also metabolic interaction between host and parasites. This chapter... -
Blunted Amphetamine-induced Reinforcing Behaviors and Transporter Downregulation in Knock-in Mice Carrying Alanine Mutations at Threonine-258 and Serine-259 of Norepinephrine Transporter
Altered amine transporter function, phosphorylation, and association with interacting proteins are evident in animals with a history of...
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Red blood cell-derived arginase release in hemolytic uremic syndrome
BackgroundHemolysis is a cardinal feature of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and during hemolysis excess arginase 1 is released from red blood cells....
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Chemoprophylaxis vaccination with a Plasmodium liver stage autophagy mutant affords enhanced and long-lasting protection
Genetically attenuated sporozoite vaccines can elicit long-lasting protection against malaria but pose risks of breakthrough infection....