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Non-tech summaries 2016: projects on sensory organs

Projects granted during 2016 that have a primary purpose of basic research, sensory organs.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 21 December 2017

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Non-technical summaries: projects granted in 2016, volume 12

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This document outlines the projects granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 during 2016 with a primary purpose of protection of basic research, sensory organs.

The following projects were granted:

• signal detection in auditory cortex of the mouse (cancer, genetics, epigenetics)

• neuronal communication in fish (zebrafish, vision, olfaction, neuron, synapse)

• genetics and etiology of eye disease (blindness, cornea, lens, stem cells)

• cell to cell signalling in skin disorders and wound healing (skin inflammation, connexin, wound healing, epidermal dysplasia)

• the circuit mechanisms of auditory processing (hearing loss, ageing, tinnitus, auditory system)

• mapping the functional architecture of vision (zebrafish, topography, retina, vision, mapping)

• studying the retinal response to depression (retinal response to depression)

• the retinal pigment epithelium in health and disease (retina, diabetes, age-related macular degeneration)

• understanding vision, developing therapies (retina, retinitis pigmentosa, sight, melanopsin, vision)

• strategies for the restoration of sight in retinal dystrophies. (retinal degeneration, stem cells, saffron, subretinal transplantation, intravitreal transplantation)

• the neural basis of sound perception (hearing, sensory cortex, auditory cortex, multisensory)

• exploring the role of inflammation in common eye diseases (eye, blindness, inflammation)

• genes and environments that influence behaviour (genetics, behaviour, smell, intellectual disability)

• development of novel therapy strategies for skin diseases (skin diseases, therapy, genetic disease)

• developing gene therapy for glaucoma (glaucoma, gene therapy, IOP)

• brain mechanisms of listening and learning (auditory; hearing; mice; neurons; perception)

• inflammatory diseases of the brain and eye (multiple sclerosis; uveitis, inflammation, vasculature)

• lateral line and hair cell function in zebrafish (hair cells, zebrafish, development, neurons, regeneration)

• regulation of mesendoderm formation in vertebrates (gene regulation, zebrafish)

Published 21 December 2017