small animal models for arrhythmia studies

... 1.3540226 for the age effect, - 36.19053 for the sex effect, and 0.602659, -0.247433, -1.030572, -0.276959, 1.1075823, 0.6457529, 3.6589865 for the BV of animals 1-7, respectively The smallest ... regular MME (Henderson, 1984) rather than the QPtransformed system !8! Therefore, PEV are estimated for BV deviated from their means Incorrect PEV for animals 1-7 are 99.91, 99.66, 99.91, 98.30, 98.66, ... measure and observed data for animals 2-7 are 100 (age), 100 (data); 110, 103; 95, 160; 98, 175; 106, 105; and 100, 114; respectively There are genetic groups for breed I and for L The model of evaluation...

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... deviation (animal model) For the heritability value of 0.20 the estimators from the sire model and the animal model are quite similar The absolute estimates from the animal model are a little smaller, ... continuously distributed traits the use of an animal model is the state of the art for the genetic evaluation of breeding animals A logical step would be to use an animal model as well to describe the ... data structures for which different sire rankings under the different model types (sire model and animal model) were identified The estimates based on the animal model are again smaller than the...

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... capacity of the presomitic mesoderm Therefore, it appears that the function of cad in the growth zone and in posterior segmentation is ancestral for bilaterians (animals with bilateral symmetry, including ... abolishes trunk segment formation in the beetle Tribolium This implies that, in the most recent common ancestor of crustaceans and insects, segments were already being formed from a posterior ... Article 303 refereed research interactions information Genome Biology 2004, 6:303 deposited research Although short, the meeting reflected well how information from non-model organisms leads to...

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... clarify the mechanisms underlying the intriguing phenotypes observed in transgenic animal models In addition, more studies at clinical and population levels are needed to elucidate the potential ... Liver Systemic disruption Liver Targeted tissue Table Phenotypes of the genetically engineered animals for the natriuretic peptide system Severe dwarfism: impaired endochondral ossification; impaired ... subsequent paper, the blood pressures of one-copy F1 animals were reported to be significantly higher on high-salt diet than on low-salt diet [27] The reason for the discrepancy between the salt phenotypes...

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... presence of transformed synoviocytes The somatic p53 mutation has not been described in experimental models of arthritis, and therefore this treatment with CRAds might not be effective in animals However, ... still in its adolescence, and more clinical studies must be initiated if it is to mature It is, however, imperative that gene therapy studies in animal models of arthritis should be continued, especially ... strategies such as RNA interference by siRNA (small interfering RNA) or ribozymes Most animal studies described in the present review used gene therapy for prophylactic treatment of arthritis Not...

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... fit these and other models, by the introduction of scaling and transformation models The models considered included those for bivariate traits when different fixed effect models are appropriate ... has been shown, for a variety of models, how scaling and transformation can reduce the considerable effort in finding maximum likelihood estimates, especially for multivariate models Another advantage ... method for choosing the transformation S In the multivariate case S can be found, for given T and T by derivativeAS , BS has advantages In fact for the free methods but the explicit solution for...

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... components for animal models with several random effects using a derivative-free algorithm Genet Select Evol 21, 317-340 Meyer K (1991) Estimating variances and covariances for multivariate animal models ... zero , E4 -N(j respectively (for QE N and = and R = [25] and [26] become = Extensions for models with repeated records oj T ( 2j, Forq i o = Hence, U2 E ) are straightforward the inverses of the ... [26] can be derived For instance, for a simple animal model fitting animals’ direct additive genetic effects only as where if t kl = = = random effects (r = i i, j = 1, , q For O 1), = T is the...

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... subvector m of a for trait m, ie, b is simply a weighted sum of solutions for animals in the data i i Ek¡ For O (J&dquo; and y - Xb - Zu the vector of residuals for [1] with subvectors t m for m 1, , ... covariances for multivariate animal models by restricted maximum likelihood Genet Selct Evol 23, 67-83 Meyer K, Smith SP (1996) Restricted maximum likelihood estimation for animal models using ... reparameterisations, however, have been restricted to simple animal models with equal design matrices for all traits; see Jensen and Mao (1988) for a review For these, a canonical decomposition of the genetic...

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... stochastic models for well-known phenomena allowed validation of the genetic model used for the MC simulations 4.1 Effect of number of loci Table I presents the values of RV[30] provided by the three models ... informative Indeed, recent studies [2, 9] investigated the contribution of mutations as a source of new genetic variance in mice But, in our study, since the other two models did not account for ... effects of genetic drift and selection are not algebraically formalized but implicitly accounted for in the simulation The analytical models of Verrier et al [14] and Chevalet [3] will then be...

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... analysis, including several useful features for evaluating data quality for the estimation of (co)variance components within maternal animal models an animal model with several random effects However, ... relationship matrix Biometrics 1976, 32:949-956 39 Mrode RA: Linear models for the prediction of animal breeding values Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: CAB International 2005 40 Gilks WR, Richardson ... the analysis of weaning weight records from an Angus × Hereford crossbred experiment Methods Equivalence of multibreed animal models For the sake of simplicity, assume a two-breed (A and B) composite...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... example for this kind of structure is a model where m stands for dominance effects, u m for the respective variance and D for the dominance covariance matrix among animals For other traits, for example ... first Graser et al (1987) therefore suggested selection of pivots corresponding to the youngest animals first For the models with several random effects for each animal, these should be assigned ... components by REML for AMs which include not only animals’ additive genetic merit but also additional random effects, and thus cover a wide range of models suitable for the analysis of animal breeding...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... Simplifications have only been suggested for the ’equal design matrix’ case, ie all traits recorded for all animals at the same (or at strictly corresponding) time(s), for models containing only one random ... measured on difl’e ent animals multivariate REML algorithms using information from derivatives of the likelihood function have been suggested for models with one random factor for various special ... estimated accordingly For the analysis under an animal model, however, it has to be borne in mind that with a record for one trait only for each animal, information on genetic covariances is available...

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... popliteal lymph node was performed for the regional staging No aberrant cells were detected Abdominal ultrasonography under sedation was performed for general staging A small hypoechoic nodule about ... References 1-Clifford CA, Skorupski KA, Moore PF Chapter 33, Part IV Specific Malignancies in the small animal patient, Section F: Histiocytic Diseases In: Withrow SJ, Vail DM, Page RL Small Animal Clinical ... been submitted in any form for another degree or professional qualification xi Acknowledgements I am immensely thankful to the whole Diagnostic Imaging team of the Small Animal Hospital, University...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 17:44

... Valarie Tan, for performing the mice embryo microinjections; Sumantra Chatterjee and Adrian Lim, for performing the zebrafish embryo microinjections; Yang Sun, for technical support for the microarrays; ... qualitative methods that not provide quantitative information about gene or protein expression level changes To obtain RNA for quantitative studies from the small subset of cells of interest, physical ... in vitro models for studying neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes Neurospheres form when brain tissue is dissociated and grown in culture Each neural stem cell expands clonally to form neurospheres,...

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