Surgery: The branch of medicine that employs operations in the treatment of disease or injury. Surgery can involve cutting, abrading, suturing, or otherwise physically changing body tissues and organs. It uses uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.
The ability to rapidly and accurately identify pain in mice is critical for providing them optimal care and welfare. To meet this need, we developed and validated the Grooming Transfer Test (...
Cancer research diagnostic services in pathology laboratories worldwide have been negatively impacted by a lack of fresh-frozen tissue samples, the degradation of DNA and RNA in archival tiss...
The role played by inflammatory hypoxia in biology and treatment of solid tumors will be reviewed. The opportunity to enhance all forms of current anti-tumor therapies through tumor re-...
DATE: September 28, 2017TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT The use of gene therapy is well studied due to its potential to treat cancer, the second leading cause of death worldwide....
The human inner ear contains ~75,000 sensory hair cells that detect sound or movement via mechanosensitive hair bundles and transmit signals to the brain via specialized sensory neurons. Inne...
Bioflavonoids are dietary agents found in everyday food items such as fruits, vegetables, and legumes. It has been suggested that bioflavonoids be used with chemotherapeutics as an anti-cance...
We have developed a semi-automated, high-throughput transient expression and purification system that yields milligram quantities of hundreds of proteins weekly. Starting from a glycerol stoc...
Alterations in homeostatic functions such as energy balance and sleep patterns are frequently seen in the elderly and these changes may precede and predict subsequent cognitive decline. ...
A fundamental challenge in developing brain machine interfaces (BMIs) is building a decoder between patterns of brain activity and movement in patients with spinal cord injury, ALS, and amput...
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder exhibiting both motor and behavioral impairment. Like most neuropsychiatric disorders, its pathophysiology has yet to be...
Basal forebrain cholinergic inputs to the cortex are known to contribute to attentional performance. A major focus of my laboratory has been to study the receptors mediating the effects of ac...
Dr. Kasthuri is a Neuroscience Researcher at Argonne National Labs and an Assistant Professor (adjunct) in the Dept. of Neurobiology, University of Chicago. He has an MD from Washington...
The idea of schizophrenia typically conjures up images of people who hear voices, see visions and have delusional beliefs. However, clinicians have long recognized cognitive dysfunction as on...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the loss of dopamine and the disruption of brain circuits (basal ganglia and cortex) that are responsible for normal cognitive and motor per...
Our decisions are governed by a balance between prospective instrumental goal-oriented and retrospective habitual learning strategies. This arbitration is relevant dimensionally across psychi...
We are nearing three decades of research on the neural circuits of Pavlovian fear conditioning. The advent of new techniques such as genetic and optogenetic manipulations have greatly advance...
DATE: February 9, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETThe last few years have led to great progress in Chile in terms of laboratory animal care and use. There are new legal mandates to prote...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 1:30pm PT, 4:30pm ETIn rabbits, buprenorphine instant release (IR) is commonly used to alleviate pain, especially in surgical models. However, maintenan...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 12:00pm PT, 3:00pm ETIn-vivo surgical models are becoming more prevalent and more critical to the drug development process. As the vast majority of ind...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ETMany of us who believe in the importance of aseptic rodent surgery have lived through the frustration of trying to implement rodent asep...
DATE: December 7, 2016TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25[OH]2D) is the active, hormonal form of vitamin D. It is produced from its precursor (vitamin D) by two hyd...
DATE: December 1, 2016TIME: 8:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM ETPreclinical imaging enables the measurement and assessment of biological processes in vivo utilizing technologies such as biolum...
Over the past 6 years, a number of agents, all mechanistically different, have been approved with a statistically significant survival benefit as monotherapy for treatment of metastatic castr...
The ability to rapidly and accurately identify pain in mice is critical for providing them optimal care and welfare. To meet this need, we developed and validated the Grooming Transfer Test (...
Cancer research diagnostic services in pathology laboratories worldwide have been negatively impacted by a lack of fresh-frozen tissue samples, the degradation of DNA and RNA in archival tiss...
The role played by inflammatory hypoxia in biology and treatment of solid tumors will be reviewed. The opportunity to enhance all forms of current anti-tumor therapies through tumor re-...
DATE: September 28, 2017TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT The use of gene therapy is well studied due to its potential to treat cancer, the second leading cause of death worldwide....
The human inner ear contains ~75,000 sensory hair cells that detect sound or movement via mechanosensitive hair bundles and transmit signals to the brain via specialized sensory neurons. Inne...
Bioflavonoids are dietary agents found in everyday food items such as fruits, vegetables, and legumes. It has been suggested that bioflavonoids be used with chemotherapeutics as an anti-cance...
We have developed a semi-automated, high-throughput transient expression and purification system that yields milligram quantities of hundreds of proteins weekly. Starting from a glycerol stoc...
Alterations in homeostatic functions such as energy balance and sleep patterns are frequently seen in the elderly and these changes may precede and predict subsequent cognitive decline. ...
A fundamental challenge in developing brain machine interfaces (BMIs) is building a decoder between patterns of brain activity and movement in patients with spinal cord injury, ALS, and amput...
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder exhibiting both motor and behavioral impairment. Like most neuropsychiatric disorders, its pathophysiology has yet to be...
Basal forebrain cholinergic inputs to the cortex are known to contribute to attentional performance. A major focus of my laboratory has been to study the receptors mediating the effects of ac...
Dr. Kasthuri is a Neuroscience Researcher at Argonne National Labs and an Assistant Professor (adjunct) in the Dept. of Neurobiology, University of Chicago. He has an MD from Washington...
The idea of schizophrenia typically conjures up images of people who hear voices, see visions and have delusional beliefs. However, clinicians have long recognized cognitive dysfunction as on...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the loss of dopamine and the disruption of brain circuits (basal ganglia and cortex) that are responsible for normal cognitive and motor per...
Our decisions are governed by a balance between prospective instrumental goal-oriented and retrospective habitual learning strategies. This arbitration is relevant dimensionally across psychi...
We are nearing three decades of research on the neural circuits of Pavlovian fear conditioning. The advent of new techniques such as genetic and optogenetic manipulations have greatly advance...
DATE: February 9, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETThe last few years have led to great progress in Chile in terms of laboratory animal care and use. There are new legal mandates to prote...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 1:30pm PT, 4:30pm ETIn rabbits, buprenorphine instant release (IR) is commonly used to alleviate pain, especially in surgical models. However, maintenan...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 12:00pm PT, 3:00pm ETIn-vivo surgical models are becoming more prevalent and more critical to the drug development process. As the vast majority of ind...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ETMany of us who believe in the importance of aseptic rodent surgery have lived through the frustration of trying to implement rodent asep...
DATE: December 7, 2016TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25[OH]2D) is the active, hormonal form of vitamin D. It is produced from its precursor (vitamin D) by two hyd...
DATE: December 1, 2016TIME: 8:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM ETPreclinical imaging enables the measurement and assessment of biological processes in vivo utilizing technologies such as biolum...
Over the past 6 years, a number of agents, all mechanistically different, have been approved with a statistically significant survival benefit as monotherapy for treatment of metastatic castr...