How to Use animal model in a Sentence

animal model

noun
  • As with azithromycin, any promising leads that come out of that in the next few months will next need to be tested in animal models.
    Quanta Magazine, 7 July 2016
  • Twitter user Lori Hogenkamp says that there are animal models for autism in the world.
    Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Today, this is known as an animal model of the disease.
    James P. Brody, The Conversation, 21 July 2021
  • This version was able to cope with the foreign body response in animal models.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The agreement calls for current studies to be done in animal models.
    Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The very first animal model of obesity set the precedent.
    Gary Taubes, STAT, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Testing the drugs in an animal model is one step closer to bringing the pills to humans, which is the ultimate goal, of course, reports Megan Molteni for Wired.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The animal model also has been used to test vaccines, drugs, and pathogenesis of the disease.
    Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Primates are not always the best animal model for every aspect of the disease.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Burdock lowers blood sugar and the need for insulin in animal models.
    Megan Nunn, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 21 July 2023
  • The next step will be to test the prostheses for function using cadavers or animal models.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The idea is that the $2 million, paid over two years, would be enough money for researchers to collect preliminary data in animal models.
    Rachel Becker, The Verge, 27 Apr. 2018
  • This led to some instances of organ damage in a few animal models, namely monkeys, ferrets, and also mice.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 May 2020
  • Loring and colleagues have demonstrated the method in animal models.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 May 2018
  • The company aims to test its candidate vaccine in animal models later this year.
    Megan Molteni, Wired, 4 Mar. 2020
  • There has been no suitable animal model for studying the disease until recently, adding to the challenges in understanding the virus.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • Each lab studies either humans or a single animal model, and each study focuses on a narrow aspect of fear.
    Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The company said the possible vaccine has shown success in animal models.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 16 May 2020
  • The limits of animal models But are animal studies good science?
    Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Scientists had pinpointed mink as a likely animal model in which to study the pathogenesis of coronaviruses 16 years ago, in the wake of the first global SARS outbreak.
    New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The Winnipeg lab also had been working for years on an Ebola vaccine, one that looked tremendously effective in animal models.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The researchers found that supplementing a diet with sea squirts, more formally called Ascidiacea, can reverse the signs of aging in an animal model.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 May 2022
  • In 2009, Budnik and her colleagues generated the first animal model that showed how fruit flies use extracellular vesicles to ferry a protein called Wnt across the synapse.
    Quanta Magazine, 2 May 2018
  • Cobra venom has been used in traditional Chinese medicine and in Ayurvedic medicine for many years, and there is evidence in animal models of effectiveness.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This starts at very low doses, which are taken from animal trial data to show that there are no unusual dangerous side effects in humans that weren’t found in the animal models.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The vaccine has been tested in animals, including non-human primates, the best animal model for Ebola.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Most studies conducted so far have been small-scale or based on animal models, and more research is needed to establish its efficacy.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Whereas MAPseq cannot be used in humans (who do not like to be genetically tinkered with), numerous animal models could be studied.
    Simon Makin, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2018
  • In animal models, discovering hidden bounty causes the release of dopamine, which in humans can lead to feelings of euphoria.
    Eugenia Bone, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Work in animal models has also shown that exercise changes gene expression by altering both histones and the molecular tags directly attached to DNA.
    Karla Kaun, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024

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