We provide our clients a full service “hospital”, plus a multi-functional research platform which features in-house and/or contracted well known scientific and clinical experts in various fields, using diseased models, particularly NHP.
First of all, we have mature technologies and know-how in animal disease modeling. Currently our manmade and/or natural-occurring disease models are mainly in the following areas:
l Parkinson’s Disease
Ø MPTP-induced Parkinsonism: Including systemically (acute and chronic) and unilateral lesioned (ICA) Parkinsonism
Ø Dyskinesia Model: Levodopa-induced dyskinesia
Ø Other Toxin Induced Neurodegeneration and Parkinsonism: Toxins including pesticides, LPS and others
Ø Gene Targeted Parkinsonism: Including transgene delivery of targeted genes, e.g. a-synuclein and Parkin, and gene knock-down with siRNA
l Ataxia and Huntington disease
l Multiple sclerosis
l Stroke
l Nature-occurring type II diabetes, preconditioning type II diabetes, and drug-induced type I diabetes with and without complications
l Obesity
l Nature-occurring Hyperinsulinemia, Hypercholesterolemia, Metabolic Syndrome, Arteriosclerosis
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