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Non-technical summaries granted during 2013: volume 5

Volume 5 of the non-technical summaries granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 during 2013.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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The following projects are listed in volume 5 of 2013:

  • origins and mechanisms of lung disease (covering gene, environment, treatments)
  • functional roles of the endothelial glycocalyx (covering blood vessel, diabetes, kidney disease)
  • survival and connectivity of developing neurons
  • role of inflammation in neurodegeneration
  • role of inflammation in immune-mediated neurological disease
  • pathophysiology of vascular responses to injury (covering atherosclerosis; restenosis; vascular grafting)
  • targeted prevention and therapy of cancer (covering cancer prevention, cancer therapy, oncogenic signalling pathway, cancer stem cells)
  • understanding neural function after nerve injury (covering regeneration, spinal cord injury, nerve injury, nerve repair, cell transplants)
  • efficacy and safety of products for the prevention and control of coccidiosis in chickens and turkeys (covering parasite, coccidia, poultry)
  • safety testing using dogs and minipigs (covering regulatory safety assessment)
Published 25 March 2014