Humane intervention points, virtual gene knockout and ex vivo brain slices for Parkinson's research

June 2022


The papers behind the pod:


  1. Williams WO and Baneux P (2022). Humane Intervention Points: Refining endpoint terminology to incorporate non-euthanasia intervention options to improve animal welfare and preserve experimental outcomes. Laboratory Animals, in press. https://doi.org/10.1177/00236772221090801
  2. Osorio D et al. (2022). scTenifoldKnk: An efficient virtual knockout tool for gene function predictions via single-cell gene regulatory network perturbation. Patterns 3(3): e100434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100434
  3. Moudio S et al. (2022). Exposure of α-Synuclein Aggregates to Organotypic Slice Cultures Recapitulates Key Molecular Features of Parkinson's Disease. Frontiers in Neurology 13: e826102. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.826102

 

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