In Vivo Models of Inflammation Volume I /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stevenson, Christopher S. (Editor), Marshall, Lisa A. (Editor), Morgan, Douglas W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2006.
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Infectious diseases.; Rheumatology.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Infectious Diseases.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Cell Biology.

In Vivo Models of Inflammation provides the biomedical researcher in both the pharmaceutical industry and academia with a description of the state of the art animal model systems used to emulate diseases with components of inflammation. This second edition acts as a complement to the first edition b...

Table of Contents:

• Rat models of arthritis: Similarities, differences, advantages, and disadvantages in the identification of novel therapeutics
• Murine collagen induced arthritis
• Use of animal models of osteoarthritis in the evaluation of potential new therapeutic agents
• Models of inflammatory processes in cancer
• Advances in stem cell research: use of stem cells in animal models of muscular dystrophy
• Gene transfer technology
• Transgenics
• Nanotechnology: Towards the detection and treatment of inflammatory diseases
• UK legislation of in vivo aspects in inflammation research
• Japanese guidelines and regulations for scientific and ethical animal experimentation
• United States guidelines and regulations in animal experimentation.