Session 45. Pigs and sheep as models for human medicine

Date: 26 August 2010; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Quesnel (FR)

Theatre Session 45

• The pig as a model for the metabolic syndrome in humans
  Litten-Brown, J.C.
• Effects of a neonatal diet enriched in proteins on growth and adipose tissue gene expression in a porcine model of intra uterine growth restriction
  Sarr, O., Gondret, F., Jamin, A., Le Huërou-Luron, I. and Louveau, I.
• Behavioural tests to screen satiating properties of dietary fibre sources in adult pigs
  Souza Da Silva, C., Van Den Borne, J.J.G.C., Gerrits, W.J.J., Kemp, B. and Bolhuis, J.E.
• What are the prerequisites for the establishment of a pig model to investigate the mechanisms of conditioned food aversion in humans?
  Meunier-Salaün, M.C., Gaultier, A., Malbert, C.H. and Val-Laillet, D.
• The use of sheep as biomedical models
  Chavatte-Palmer, P., Morel, O., Heyman, Y., Pailhoux, E. and Laporte, B.
• Bilateral internal thoracic artery resection. Influence in sternal wound healing after median sternotomy: early experience in the growing sheep model
  Beltrán De Heredia, I., Gallo, I., Sáenz, A., Artiñano, E., Martínez-Peñuela, A., Pérez-Moreiras, I., Esquide, J., Larrabide, I. and Camacho, I.