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Addiction
- Opioid dependence – precipitated withdrawal
- Nicotine dependence – precipitated withdrawal
- Intravenous self-administration – cue reinstatement
CNS
- Anti-convulsant (PTZ)
- Anti-convulsant (ECS)
- Head twitch response test (5 HT2A antagonism)
- Staircase model
- Tail flick
- Randal Selitto
- Hot Plate
Gastrointestinal
- Ferret Emesis (Anti-emetic)
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease: DSS induced, IL-10 knockout, adoptive T cell transfer
Immunogenicity
- Vaccine immunogenicity testing (subunit, live, attenuated, mRNA, self-amplifying RNA, DNA, dermal patches)
Infectious Disease
- Hepatitis B virus (AAV-HBV, HBV/HDV, HBV mutant)
- Hepatitis (infected human liver)
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) challenge
- Influenza challenge
- Rabies challenge
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) challenge
- C. difficile challenge
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) challenge
- Sepsis (various pathogens)
- Thigh PK/PD (MRSA+ various pathogens)
Metabolic Disease
- Type 1 Diabetes (streptozocin-induced)
- Type 2 Diabetes (ob/ob mouse, Zucker rat)
- Obesity (diet-induced)
- Glucose Challenge (oral, IV, IP glucose admin)
- Dietary/Hypercholesterolemia
- NASH (Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis) - AMLN/GAN induced
- NASH - CCl4 induced liver fibrosis
- Glucose telemetry
Oncology
Respiratory Disease
- Asthma
- Ovalbumin sensitization and challenge (airway and nasal challenge)
- House dust mite chronic model
- COPD
- LPS neutrophil chemotaxis model (inhaled and systemic)
- LPS+ FMLP PK/PD model – Neutrophil Elastase targets
- Acute tobacco smoke model (5, 12 and 17 Day model)
- Human neutrophil elastase lung hemorrhage model –neutrophil Elastase targets
- COPD/Asthma: Bronchoconstriction models for LABA, LAMA and MABAs
- Cystic fibrosis: IL-13 PK/PD goblet cell hyperplasia model
- Antitussive: Cough model
- Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis: Bleomycin induced lung fibrosis
- Chlorine induced lung injury (chemical injury)
- Allergic Aspergillus- antifungal
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension: Monocrotaline induced pulmonary hypertension
- Flu: H1N1 influenza lung injury/infection model-viral COPD/asthma exacerbation
- Cystic fibrosis: Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung injury /infection model- Bacterial exacerbation
- S.pneumoniae lung infection/COPD exacerbation