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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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
7388124 Non-traumatic model for neurogenic pain  
A method for producing a non-human mammalian model for neurogenic pain is provided, which includes altering a peripheral nerve of a non-human mammal by non-surgically placing a gel substance into...
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.
7332645 IL-21 as a regulator of immunoglobin production  
A transgenic mouse is disclosed herein whose somatic and germ cells comprise a disrupted IL-21 receptor gene, the disruption being sufficient to inhibit the binding of IL-21 to an IL-21 receptor,...
7332644 Non-human animal model of oligodendrocyte developmental disorder  
The objects of the present invention is to provide a preventive method for the progress of neuropsychiatric disorders, a therapeutic agent for neuropsychiatric disorders, a screening method...
7323616 Genetically altered mice deficient in functional caspase-9  
The invention relates to genetically manipulated animals that are deficient in the expression of Caspase-9, a protein involved in programmed cell death. The invention further relates to methods for...
7309812 Perlecan transgenic animals and methods of identifying compounds for the treatment of amyloidoses  
The invention provides a transgenic non-human animal expressing a perlecan encoding transgene. Also provided is a double-transgenic non-human animal expressing a perlecan and an amyloid encoding...
7309810 Nonhuman model animal suffering from Guillain-Barré syndrome and/or fisher syndrome  
The present invention intends to provide a non-human animal model of Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can be obtained by immunizing FcγRIIB-gene-deficient non-human animal with ganglioside GQ1 b ,...
7276644 Transgenic mouse comprising a myosin heavy chain atpase loop 1 mutation  
The invention provides a transgenic mouse that is a model for myocardial function. Also provided are methods for using the transgenic mouse model to study heart muscle, cardiac disease and identify...
7273964 Non-human transgenic animals for the study of neurodegenerative syndromes  
A non-human transgenic animal that is transgenic for an antibody or fragments thereof and having a phenotype reminiscent of human pathology. The human pathology includes neurodegenerative...
7273963 Malarial animal model having a chimeric human liver  
The present invention features a non-human animal model of malaria, e.g., Plasmodium , particularly Plasmodium falciparum . The model is based on a non-human, immunocompromised transgenic animal...
7265259 GSK-3β expressed in a transgenic mouse  
A transgenic animal in which GSK-3β protein is over-expressed is useful as a model for neurodegenerative disease.
7259289 MCH1R deficient mice  
The present invention features viable MCH1R deficient mice. MCH1R deficient mice contain an alteration in one or both MCH1R alleles that substantially reduces expression of a functional MCH1R from...
7253333 Drosophila strain carrying bradeion gene(s) transferred thereinto  
Provided is a special Drosophila strain having a Bradeion gene artificially incorporated therein to exclusively express the gene in the compound eyes and thus to exhibit rough eye. The ...
7235709 Transgenic animals with increased slow-twitch muscle fibers and methods of using such animals  
Transgenic non-human mammals over-expressing MHCI in skeletal muscle are provided herein, as are methods of using these transgenic non-human mammals for screening candidate compounds for treating...
7220891 Feline bronchioloalveolar lung carcinoma xenograft and cell line  
The present invention provides feline transplantable lung carcinoma xenografts and cell lines. Such xenografts and cell lines exhibit a number of unique characteristics which allows their use in...
7220890 Chimeric mouse model for endometriosis  
A non-human animal model for endometriosis is provided as well as methods of making and using the animal.
7202393 Mouse model for Type II diabetes  
The present invention relates to a Type II diabetes model mouse, having a causative gene responsible for the following characteristics (1) to (3) in the heterologous or homologous state, wherein...
7186882 Transgenic mouse over-expressing calreticulin (CRT) in vascular smooth muscle cells  
A transgenic mouse whose genome comprises a transcriptional control region operably linked to a cDNA encoding calreticulin (CRT) is described.
7166763 Mouse model of myxomatous valvular disease  
An animal selected for lacking heparan sulfate 3-O-sulfotransferase-1 activity is provided. This animal exhibits characteristics associated with myxomatous valvular disease and is useful for...
7166762 Method of constructing heart failure model animal  
A non-human mammal which is usefully and effectively applicable to the screening of a substance to be employed for preventing and treating heart failure. This animal is an animal model of heart...
7166761 Method of screening PTPζ activity promoter or inhibitor  
An object of the present invention is to provide a remedy for dysfunction of central monoamine pathway, a method for screening a PTPζ inhibitor or activator, and a non-human model animal being...
7161059 Human hookworm model and method for maintaining human hookworm in a non-human primate  
A method for maintaining a human hookworm strain is provided by infecting a non-human primate with a non-adapted or non-passaged human hookworm and maintaining the non-human primate. Methods of...
7135609 Non-human animal exhibiting bone metastasis of tumor cells and method of screening for bone metastasis inhibitors  
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...
7135607 Goodpasture's syndrome model mouse  
The present invention provides a non-human model animal of Goodpasture's syndrome that contributes to the treatment of Goodpasture's syndrome where the development of therapy had been delayed due...
7122714 Mouse models of human prostate cancer  
The present invention provides an immune deficient mouse having a human prostate xenograft of locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer and uses thereof.
7119249 Methods and transgenic mouse model for identifying and modulating factors involved in the production of reactive oxygen intermediates  
The present invention provides a transgenic non-human animal, in particular a transgenic mouse encoding the NOX and Duox family of proteins, which generate reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI). The...
RE39337 Nude mouse model for human neoplastic disease  
A nude mouse model for human neoplastic diseases having histologically intact human neoplastic tissue transplanted onto an organ of the mouse which corresponds to the human organ from which the...
7112716 Methods for screening and identifying host pathogen defense genes  
Disclosed are methods for identifying nematodes having enhanced susceptibility to a pathogen; for identifying pathogen defense response genes; and for identifying compounds that enhances a host's...
7107092 Methods for diagnosing a neurodegenerative condition  
A method of diagnosing, prognosing, staging, and/or monitoring a mammalian amyloidogenic disorder or a predisposition thereto by detecting a protein or polypeptide aggregate in the cortical and/or...
7098377 IEX-1 knockout animals  
The invention provides methods and materials related to animals having a disrupted IEX-1 sequence. For example, the invention provides homozygous knockout (IEX-1 −/− ) animals and heterozygous...
7098374 Human disease modeling using somatic gene transfer  
This invention provides a system for modeling neurodegenerative and other diseases through somatic gene transfer. In addition, methods of multiple gene transfer, disease analysis and drug testing...
7098373 IL-18 transgenic animal  
Transgenic non-human mammals comprising a DNA with an exogenous IL-18 gene incorporated in it such that the exogenous IL-18 gene is skin-specifically expressed, or their offsprings. The transgenic...
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