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8173859 Epilepsy model animal  
An epilepsy model animal (CHRNA4:S284L) developing spontaneous epileptic seizure during sleep, which is a nonhuman animal established by ontogenesis of a totipotent cell into which a polynucleotide...
8173861 Transgenic pig model for a hereditary neurodegenerative autosomal dominant disease  
The present invention discloses a non-human animal model for a hereditary autosomal dominant disease. The non-human animal model expresses at least one phenotype associated with the disease and is...
8119854 Role of proteoglycans in drug dependence  
The invention provides methods of preventing or treating drug addiction, or ameliorating the craving for an addictive drug, as well as compounds, peptides, and pharmaceutical compositions that may...
8076532 Transgenic mouse defective in WW45 function and use in screening compounds for anti-tunour activity  
Mechanisms regulating cell proliferation stop and differentiation initiation during the development stage of mammalian embryo, and the proteins involved therein, are presented. Differentiation...
8067666 Model animal causing the white hair development and methods relating thereto  
A model rodent animal with a phenotype in which hair growing after birth is black, with the animal spontaneously developing white hair after aging. By way of example, the model rodent animal may...
8058502 Increasing lifespan by modulation of WWP-1 and UBC-18  
Ubiquitin ligase wwp-1 and ubiquitin conjugating enzyme ubc-18 are identified in nematodes as mediators of dietary restriction induced longevity and therefore as targets for modulation of lifespan...
8012456 Biological models capable of exhibiting secondary disease manifestations and useful for developing therapeutic drugs, diagnostic products and therapeutic or diagnostic procedures, methods of using same, and cells, tissues and organs derived therefrom  
This invention provides novel animal models for a human pathogen that is capable of exhibiting analogous secondary disease manifestation. Other animal models for a human pathogen are provided by...
7989675 Method of identifying compounds using a transgenic pig model of cystic fibrosis  
The present invention provides transgenic, large non-human animal models of diseases and conditions, as well as methods of using such animal models in the identification and characterization of...
7973211 Animal model for hyperpigmentation  
An animal model for hyperpigmentations in which the formation of hyperpigmentations in human skin is faithfully simulated is provided. An animal model for hyperpigmentations, wherein a black...
7968762 Immune-compromised transgenic mice expressing human hepatocyte growth factor (hHGF)  
A transgenic animal model for evaluating growth, survival and/or metastasis of xenotransplanted normal or tumor cells or tissue is disclosed, in which a human growth factor, hHGF stimulates growth...
7960606 Mouse model of chronic heart failure and coronary atherosclerosis regression  
An animal model has been developed where the animals can survive myocardial infarctions caused by diet-induced coronary atherosclerosis, and live with chronic heart failure. This animal model is a...
7931902 Gene disruptions, compositions and methods relating thereto  
The present invention relates to transgenic animals, as well as compositions and methods relating to the characterization of gene function. Specifically, the present invention provides transgenic...
7919673 Transgenic pig with altered incretin function  
The present invention relates to transgenic pigs containing a dominant-negative incretin hormone receptor, namely the dominant-negative human glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor....
7902421 Animal model for schizophrenia  
The invention is an animal model which exhibits neuropathological and behavioral features associated with human schizophrenia. The invention also encompasses an in vivo method of preparing an...
7897834 Mutation in the rat adenomatous polyposis coli gene within the human mutation hotspot region  
A rat with a disrupted Apc (adenomatous polyposis coli) gene is provided. The mutation can include an A to T transversion changing a lysine to a stop codon at codon 1137. Methods of generating the...
7897833 Animal model for pigment spots  
An animal model for pigment spots in which the formation of pigment spots in human skin is faithfully simulated is provided. An animal model for pigment spots, wherein a black person's skin is...
7884260 Cell-based screen for agents useful for reducing neuronal demyelination or promoting neuronal remyelination  
This invention is in the field of neurology. Specifically, the invention relates to the discovery and characterization of molecular components that play a role in neuronal demyelination or...
7863499 Model of infantile spasm syndrome  
Provided are non-human mammals treated with doxorubicin, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and p-chlorophenylalanine (PCPA), where the mammal exhibits a symptom characteristic of infantile spasms. Also...
7847147 Mouse developing visceral fat type obesity and diabetes  
An object of the present invention is to provide a mouse which has the characteristics of early developing visceral fat type obesity and also has concurrent diabetes and hyperlipemia and in which...
7847148 Oasis gene-deficient mouse  
A mouse that is deficient in the function of the gene for OASIS, and a method for screening for, or evaluating a pharmacological efficacy of, therapeutic agents for osteoporosis using the mouse.
7847146 Model for neurodegenerative disorders  
The present invention discloses a double transgenic fly that expresses both Tau protein and the human Aβ42 peptide of human amyloid-β precursor protein (APP). The double transgenic flies of the p...
7795495 Transgenic mice for screening for inhibitors of protein aggregation and methods for making and using them  
The methodologies of the present invention demonstrate that a critical balance between pro- and anti-amyloidogenic molecules exists that regulates amyloid formation and cell death in Alzheimer's...
7772458 Animal model for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis  
A nonhuman transgenic mammal is described whose genome comprises a promoter construct operably linked to a heterologous DNA encoding an epithelial sodium channel β subunit, wherein said promoter ...
7767879 Transgenic animal model of neurodegenerative disorders  
The present invention provides a transgenic animal model of Alzheimer's Disease designated TgCRND8 as well as a method for making such model, which allows for the characterization of the etiology...
7745690 Transgenic nonhuman mammal representing the pathologic conditions of human rheumatoid arthritis  
It is intended to provide a transgenic nonhuman mammal well representing the pathologic conditions of human rheumatoid arthritis. A transgenic nonhuman mammal is obtained by transferring a foreign...
7705199 Compositions and methods for treatment of autoimmune and related diseases  
Compositions and methods are provided for treatment of autoimmune and other related diseases. 3d, a point mutation of the protein uncoordinated-93b (unc-93B), unc-93A, unc-93B, and unc-93C,...
7700824 Methods  
A non-human animal which has a reduced amount of functional TAZ polypeptide and/or TAZ-like polypeptide, or a reduced amount of nucleic acid encoding said polypeptide. A method for generating a...
7652191 Nonhuman mammals exhibiting PTSD-like behavior  
The invention relates to production of maladapted animals characterized by PTSD like behavior from a population by behavioral conditioning. The method includes determining a baseline behavioral...
7638679 Tolerance and chronic hepatitis C virus  
This invention provides a model for the induction of immunological tolerance to antigens. The tolerance model of the invention can be used for screening candidate drugs effective in modulating...
7638678 Animal model for perimenopause and menopause and methods of inducing ovarian failure  
The present invention relates to an animal model for human perimenopause and menopause. Also provided by the present invention are methods of making the animal model and methods of screening using...
7625549 Determining the risk of human anti-human antibodies in transgenic mice  
The present embodiments relate to methods of identifying and creating human or humanized antibodies that possess a reduced risk of inducing a Human Anti-Human Antibody (HAHA) response when they are...
7560609 Diabetic model  
The invention relates to an animal model for diabetes and a method for obtaining said animal model. The invention also relates to the uses of the animal model for screening for or testing compounds...
7554003 Invertebrate animal model with neurodegenerative phenotype for screening and testing substances  
The present invention claims an invertebrate animal that has been modified to express a set of genes, the set comprising the gene coding for a modified version of the gamma subunit of AMP-activated...
7531714 Melusin a muscle specific protein, as a drug target for prevention and treatment of heart failure  
The present invention concerns non-human transgenic animals as model study for human pathologies, being transgenic for having altered melusin expression. The non-human transgenic animals are to be...
7514592 Inducible heart attack animal model  
An animal model of coronary heart disease has been developed where myocardial infarct can be induced by altering the animal's diet. In all embodiments, this animal model is a result of reduced...
7514594 Transgenic animal model of bone mass modulation  
The present invention relates to methods and materials used to express the HBM protein in animal cells and transgenic animals. The present invention also relates to transgenic animals expressing...
7507871 Rat model of diabetic nephropathy  
A rat model of diabetic nephropathy is disclosed. In another embodiment of the invention, a method of evaluating a test compound's effect of diabetic nephropathy is disclosed. In one embodiment,...
7495147 Neuregulin-1 transgenic mouse and methods of use  
Nucleic acids comprising the neuregulin 1 gene (NRG1) and encoding NRG1 polypeptides are disclosed. Also described are related nucleic acids encoding NRG1 polypeptides; NRG1 polypeptides;...
7465269 Bone growth stimulator  
A bone growth stimulator is provided. In one embodiment, the device has an elliptically shaped transducer coil. The coil provides increased therapeutic benefit to a wearer. An elliptically shaped...
7462757 Animal with gene hypoexpression  
The present invention relates to non-human animal embryonic stem cells in which a lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase-like lysophospholipase endogenous gene is inactivated; non-human animals...
7459602 Mammalian cancer cell and transgenic mammal carrying human protooncogene and kit for diagnosing cancer using said protooncogene  
The present invention provides a mammalian cell transfected with an expression vector comprising a human protooncogene which has the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; a mammalian embryo carrying...
7439415 Population of Hoxb8 mutants and uses in identifying agents for treating repetitive behaviors  
This invention provides in vivo and in vitro methods of screening for an agent or a combination of agents that reduces one or more repetitive behaviors, comprising contacting neuronal cells of an...
7420100 Methods and compositions relating to HDAC 4 and 5 regulation of cardiac gene expression  
The present invention relates to cardiac hypertrophy. More particularly, the present invention defines the molecular events linking calcium stimulation to cardiac hypertrophy. More specifically,...
7417175 Interstitial prostatism model animal  
The present invention provides an animal model for prostatic stromal hyperplasia, and a method for screening for a substance effective for preventing/treating human benign prostatic hyperplasia...
7414169 Therapeutic and diagnostic tools for impaired glucose tolerance conditions  
Disclosed herein are novel genes and methods for the screening of therapeutics useful for treating impaired glucose tolerance conditions, as well as diagnostics and therapeutic compositions for...
7402727 Non-human animal exhibiting bone metastasis of tumor cells  
The present invention provides a non-human bone metastasis model animal in which tumor cells capable of inducing bone metastasis by peripheral administration have been introduced, and a method for...
7402728 Transgenic mice expressing human CD20 and/or CD16  
The present invention generally relates to non-human transgenic animals expressing human cellular markers, including CD20 and/or preferably CD16.
7399900 Nematodes as model organisms for the investigation of neurodegenerative diseases, in particular parkinsons disease, uses and methods for the discovery of substances and genes which can used in the treatment of the above disease states and identification of anematode gene  
The invention relates to nematodes as model organisms for the investigation of neurodegenerative diseases in particular. Parkinsons disease, uses and methods for the discovery of substances and...
7355093 Model animal with overexpression of regucalcin  
The present invention provides an animal model which overexpresses regucalcin, a calcium-binding protein that is inherently expressed in the liver and the like of the higher animal, and which is...
7342146 Neurodegenerative non-human transgenic mammal expressing TrkA fusion protein  
The present invention provides a neurodegenerative, non-human transgenic mammal whose cells contain a TrkA-hFc transgene for encoding at least a TrkA fusion protein and the use thereof.
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