clinics or suitable biobanks with tissue or blood samples from HDV patients. There is also no reliable animal model on which to scientifically study responses to the virus. Developing a new treatment approach
07.07.2021 In medical research, animal models are used to clarify the development of diseases and to develop suitable therapies. In order to be able to transfer the results to humans, however, it must
own breeding," says laboratory manager Dr Sarah Strauß. Extracting the silk is painless for the animals and does not harm them, the biologist emphasises. The holding thread is the spider's "safety rope"
diseases, the biochemist suspects. Next, the research team would like to test the results in the animal model and use the MS expertise available in Lower Saxony for this. "For this, we would like intensive
virus types In the next step, the efficiency and safety of the RNAi candidates will be tested in animal models. In addition, the RNA therapeutic agent is not to be administered with a syringe or as a tablet
clinically, its efficacy and tolerability still have to be confirmed in further studies in large animal models and later also in clinical studies in humans. More than 400 monogenetic diseases are known
Professor Hansmann came up with the new therapeutic approach for PAH through preliminary experiments with animal mesenchymal stem cells, which he had conducted in 2011 and 2012 at Harvard Medical School in Boston
RNAi candidates on human lung tissue slices and in 3D cell cultures from human lung epithelium and animal models," explains Professor Dr Armin Braun, Head of Preclinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at Fraunhofer
actually happens, the efficacy and tolerability still have to be confirmed in further studies in large animal models and later also in clinical studies in humans. SERVICE: For further information, please contact
will then be tested first as a respiratory acute aid and later as a permanent lung alternative in animal models. However, the researcher believes that it will be several years before the artificial lungs