Non-technical summaries granted during 2013: volume 17
Volume 17 of the non-technical summaries granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 during 2013.
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The following projects are listed in volume 17 of 2013:
- mechanisms of ageing (covering lifespan, health span, metabolism, diet)
- understanding liver injury and disease (covering fibrosis, myofibroblast)
- making and freezing of genetically altered animals (covering transgenic cryopreservation rat, transgenic cryopreservation mouse)
- understanding microglia-tumour interactions (covering brain tumour, immune cells, zebrafish)
- the biological significance of DNA methylation (covering Rett syndrome, epigenetics, mouse models)
- cardiac development and regeneration in zebrafish
- breeding and maintenance of genetically altered mice (covering vaccine, research)
- mechanisms of immunity to Leishmania infection (covering immunology, microscopy)
- the ecology and biology of UK seals (covering marine mammals, diving, foraging, behaviour, population dynamics)
- stem cells in organ repair and scarring (covering liver, cancer, regeneration)