Non-technical summaries granted during 2013: volume 18
Volume 18 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 18 of 2013:
- metabolic alterations of pregnancy (covering metabolic disease, offspring, therapies)
- African Trypanosomiasis (covering microscopic parasites)
- 5-HT circuits regulating energy/glucose balance (covering appetite, brain, obesity, type 2 diabetes)
- investigating long-range synaptic pathways in cortical regions (covering hippocampus, synapse, electrophysiology, cannabinoid, neuroanatomy)
- molecular neuroscience of ligand-gated and G-protein coupled receptors (covering GABA, nervous system, neurological disease, ion channels, neuro-transmitter receptors)
- information processing in innate aggressive behaviour (covering computation; neuron)
- metabolic alterations of pregnancy (covering metabolic disease, offspring, therapies)
- factors contributing to liver failure (covering liver disease, hepatic encephalopathy, acute liver failure (ALF), acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF), cirrhosis)
- oocyte functionality post-cryopreservation (covering fertility preservation, xenografting, nude mouse, human ovarian tissue)
- the role of RING finger proteins in malignancy (covering PML, BRCA1, DNA repair)
- collection of blood and arthropod feeding (covering arthropod maintenance, primary cells)