Two reasons have justified such choices: first, the Laplace approximation of the posterior density of the genetic variance requires the repeated inversion of the Hessian matrix of the log-posterior density, which quickly becomes too time-consuming for large (animal model) applications.
Despite that inhibition of the mTOR pathway can attenuate renal fibrosis in animal models, application of rapamycin in patients with CNIs did not result in consistent beneficial effects.
However, in both small and large animal models, the application of adverse ventilatory patterns to previously healthy lungs not only causes formation of proteinaceous edema but it also stimulates neutrophil aggregation and hemorrhage [ 17, 18].
In animal models, the application of hyperthermia to subcutaneous tumors concomitant with or prior to intravenous administration of long circulating liposomes results in a marked increase in liposome accumulation within tumor tissue [ 22, 23].
While no animal model permits direct application to humans, each is capable of yielding principles on which decisions can be made that might eventually translate into a human application.
In animal model, hot pack application can produce an augmented muscle force in exercised animals [ 56].
The step from animal model to clinical application, however, has in the case of angiostatin been hampered by problems associated with producing sufficient amounts of biologically active recombinant protein.
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TLR9 expression in non-tumoral cells or microglia activation may play an important role in the CpG induced anti-cancer immunotherapy, however, the inflammatory response observed following CpG treatment do not always prevent growth of solid tumor masses, in one CpG treated glioma animal model[ 43], intratumoral application of CpG proved ineffective.
Finally, our results also highlight that the choice of an animal model might affect translational applications when examining detailed molecular mechanisms such as sub-cellular molecular physiology.
In addition to technology development, quite a few papers reported in vivo animal model and clinical OCT applications, including retina and cornea imaging, cancer detection, and cell viability assessment.
