Large Animals as Models for Human Diseases, Volume 189 in the Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of important topics, including Sheep as a model for neuroendocrinology research, Relevance of dog as a model for urologic diseases, Relevance of lactocrine hypothesis to human maternal programming of development, Comparative aspects of embryo implantation, Pig as an animal model for obesity, Canine models of cancer, Bovine model for human ovarian diseases, Mutations in G protein-coupled receptors in large animals: Modeling human diseases, and more.
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Elsevier Science & Techn.
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978-0-323-99442-2 (9780323994422)
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PrefaceYa-Xiong Tao 1. Sheep as a model for neuroendocrinology researchChad D. Foradori and Laci Mackay2. Relevance of dog as an animal model for urologic diseasesHannah Ruetten and Chad M. Vezina3. Canine models of human cancer: Bridging the gap to improve precision medicineRebecca L. Nance, Abdul Mohin Sajib and Bruce F. Smith4. Bovine models for human ovarian diseasesJohn F. Roberts and Chen-Che Jeff Huang5. Mutations in rhodopsin, endothelin B receptor, and CC chemokine receptor 5 in large animals: Modeling human diseasesRen-Lei Ji and Ya-Xiong Tao6. Melanocortin-1 receptor mutations and pigmentation: Insights from large animalsRen-Lei Ji and Ya-Xiong Tao7. Mutations in melanocortin-4 receptor: From fish to menYa-Xiong Tao8. Patient-derived organoids as a model for tumor researchJia Wang, Xiaoying Feng, Zhichao Li, Wei Chen and Weiren Huang
