Non-technical summaries granted during 2013: volume 20
Volume 20 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 20 of 2013:
- improving treatment and prevention of toxoplasma gondii infection (covering blindness, stillbirth, abortion encephalitis)
- antiviral activity of DI influenza viruses (covering respiratory disease)
- cardiac medical device development (covering heart, regulatory, service)
- experimental therapies for neuromuscular diseases (covering muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, mdx mouse, SOD1 mouse)
- towards improved control of poultry infectious disease (covering eimeria, chicken, vector, vaccines, microbiota)
- learning and memory across the lifespan (covering brain, behaviour, environmental enrichment, cognition, ageing)
- safety of biological materials (covering pharmaceutical, biological, infection, safety)
- mouse models of human birth defects (covering heart defect; mouse mutant; zebrafish mutant; embryological development)
- the genetic basis of disorders of the brain and pituitary gland (covering congenital disorders)
- mechanisms of NKT cell activation (covering lymphocyte, infection, inflammation, imaging)