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questionname OP t1_izxdpt4 wrote
Reply to comment by Turbulent_Neck3942 in Just a slight flurry and everything goes red by questionname
Ugh, sorry
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Reply to A relic from the past by MesaVerde87
Wasn’t it a stabbing murder that finally closed the place down? Good times.
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Reply to How do medical researchers obtain lab animals with diseases like specific forms of cancer which arise spontaneously? Do they raise thousands of apes and hope some eventually develop the disease? by userbrn1
It depends. For a pharmaceutical treatment, they will inject it, adjust dosage for the weight and type of animal, and observe the outcome. If it’s cancer, see how large the tumor is.
If it’s a medical device, a large animal model is used. What animal is very dependent on the part of body you are studying. Cardiovascular tends to be a pig or sheep or dog model. The harder part is giving it a disease, since heart disease tends to develop after decades of life span and poor QoL, so Doctors and researchers try to find a way to restrict blood flow, increase heart rate to induce heart failure, inject chemicals that kills the muscle cells. There’s no perfect way but a lot of money goes into developing a method.
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Reply to A custom 100-pound laptop with a 43-inch screen by thebelsnickle1991
The weights more than a standard desktop and monitor.