Non-technical summaries granted during 2013: volume 27
Volume 27 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 27 of 2013:
- molecular genetic analysis of hypothalamic phenotype (covering brain, hypothalamus, neuron, gene, DNA)
- on the mechanisms of risk for psychiatric illness (covering schizophrenia, autism, genetics, learning disability, development)
- a transgenic approach to control avian influenza in birds (covering chickens)
- the immunology of inflammatory disease (covering human, inflammation)
- development of novel strategies for neural repair (covering spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury, CNS injury, neural repair, axon growth)
- time-dependent mechanisms in learning and memory (covering habituation, timing, conditioning)
- modelling gastrointestinal inflammation and tumorigenesis in the mouse (covering cancer, intestine, oesophagus, inflammation)
- physiology and pathophysiology of the auditory system (covering hearing, tinnitus, neuroscience)
- immune and vascular responses in inflammation (covering inflammation; leukocyte migration; blood vessels)
- zinc finger gene therapy for Huntington’s Disease (covering neurodegeneration, mice, synthetic zinc finger proteins)