Search Results: "Heart research"

Speak Up For Research!

Speaking out and drawing on your own personal experiences is an essential and effective way to advocate for medical progress. Whatever your role is in the advancement of health for people and animals, everyone can speak up for research to ensure the continued quest for cures and treatments is not…

Read More

Animals in Research

Research Ferrets Co-nursing a Litter

Jills – female ferrets – are incredibly friendly and social and often sleep cuddled together. Research ferrets are housed so that they can exhibit their natural behaviors, keeping them happy and healthy.  Jills with litters spend most of their time in the nests nursing and cuddling with kits. Jills will…

View and Share

Animals in Research

Research Sheep Colony

Sheep thrive in social groups of at least five members. Research facilities strive to design housing that best meets the needs of their animals.  This flock room is lined with hay that is changed every other day allowing the sheep to graze as they would naturally on a pasture.  Their…

View and Share

Animals in Research

Sadie the Research Cat

Sadie is part of a research study to develop more effective analgesics for cats. There are very few analgesics approved for cats even though there are over 74 million pet cats in the United States.   Anesthesia and analgesia are challenging in cats for a variety of reasons. Researchers hope to…

View and Share

Animals in Research

Mice with “good cholesterol” gene

These mice are part of a study to help understand how HDL cholesterol, “the good cholesterol,"protects people from heart attacks. They are transgenic mice carrying the human gene APOA1, which produces a protein component of HDL cholesterol. Animals with this gene are highly resistant to heart disease. When they reach…

View and Share

Species Entry

Pig

The anatomy and function of organ systems in pigs are very similar to that of humans.  Pig and human hearts and their associated blood vessels are approximately the same size and structure. Thus pigs are a valuable model in understanding heart function, disease, and treatment. Both pigs and people are…

Visit Species Page

Species Entry

Dog

Dogs, although one of the least common animals needed for research, are among the most important.  Many cancers in dogs are identical, or almost identical, to human cancers. The cancer in dogs often develops faster, making them an ideal model to see if a certain therapy is effective. Many breeds…

Visit Species Page

Animals in Research

Mice in Vaccine Research

Mice are the most common species involved in vaccine research. Of course, a mouse is not a human, but researchers are very familiar with the mouse immune system, which allows them to study the strengths and weaknesses of infectious diseases in order  to develop effective immunization strategies. Thanks to mice,…

View and Share

Animals in Research

A Home for Louie

Louie the hound is adopted after he completes his work as an asthma study subject. Robert J. Adams, DVM, Associate Provost for Animal Research and Resources at the Johns Hopkins University talks about the research dog he adopted in 2015, the need for animals in biomedical research and how human…

View and Share