Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas-Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, United States, 4 Spezielle Zoologie und Biodiversitätsforschung, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany, Center ...

Animal welfare is a topic often thought to reside outside mainstream biology. The complexity of the methods used to assess welfare (such as health, physiology, immunological state, and behavior) require an understanding of a wide range of biological phenomena. Furthermore, the "welfare" of an animal provides a framework in which a diversity of its responses can be understood as fitness-enhancin...

BACKGROUND One in twenty-five people suffer from a mood disorder. Current treatments are sub-optimal with poor patient response and uncertain modes-of-action. There is thus a need to better understand underlying mechanisms that determine mood, and how these go wrong in affective disorders. Systems biology approaches have yielded important biological discoveries for other complex diseases such a...

In this paper we propose a new way of conceptualizing animals in experimentation: the animal-as-patient. Construing and treating animals as patients offers a way of successfully addressing some of the entrenched epistemological and ethical problems within a practice of animal experimentation directed to human clinical benefit. This approach is grounded in an epistemological insight and builds o...

Bladder cancer is the fourth most common malignancy amongst men in Western industrialized countries with an initial response rate of 70% for the non-muscle invasive type, and improving therapy efficacy is highly needed. For this, an appropriate, reliable animal model is essential to gain insight into mechanisms of tumor growth for use in response monitoring of (new) agents. Several animal model...

The incidence of depressive illness is high worldwide, and the inadequacy of currently available drug treatments contributes to the significant health burden associated with depression. A basic understanding of the underlying disease processes in depression is lacking; therefore, recreating the disease in animal models is not possible. Popular current models of depression creatively merge ethol...

Ng’s (2016) target article built on his earlier work advocating a science of welfare biology (Ng 1995). Although there were problems with the models proposed in original paper regarding balance pleasure and suffering for wild animals, call animal was sound one. This does not require new discipline but just an extension existing frameworks methods to include animals.

Intervention in Obesity & Diabetes Can Gestational Anti-Diabetic Plants Using Cameroon Manage Preeclampsia? Tsabang Nolé1* and Tsambang Djeufack Wilfried Lionel2 1Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences Department animal Biology, University Dschang, 2Centre de Cardiologie et Medical, Yaounde, *Corresponding author:Tsabang Nolé, Higher Sciences, Submission:June 13, 2022;Published: June 27, 20...

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