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Featured Articles
Cancer Cachexia-Induced Muscle Atrophy
Cancer cachexia is a muscle wasting syndrome that is associated with certain cancers, but most commonly with advanced malignancies. This syndrome arises as a result of tumor-induced metabolic changes, causing the body to break down skeletal muscle and adipose tissue in response to nutritional deficiencies. These changes manifest as severe weight loss, anorexia, asthenia, and anemia, impairing the patient's capacity to tolerate infections, chemotherapy, and radiation treatments (Dhanapal et al., 2022). While research characterizing the multifactorial origins of this syndrome is still ongoing, three recent publications featuring our scientific equipment have made notable advances in the current understanding of this muscle wasting disease, and are discussed in this publication review.
Scents of Security: Emerging Olfaction Applications with Biorobots
The following publication review showcases several new and exciting findings in the olfactory sciences, highlighting how our instruments helped these researchers stir up the lab. The natural world often serves as inspiration for innovation, and insects – specifically their olfactory systems – have become a recent research topic of interest. Given the remarkable sensitivity of insect odor detection systems, the potential applications of this budding field are numerous.
Recent Therapeutic Advances in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Models
The following publication review showcases recent studies focused on therapeutic advances in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) that use Aurora Scientific equipment.
News & Events
Excellence, Innovation, and Collaboration: Student Research at the MHRC
This past April, we partnered with InsideScientific and the Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC) at York University, a one-of-a-kind facility that fosters an interdisciplinary approach to the study of muscle physiology. We had the privilege of interviewing a number of faculty and students to highlight their research, as well as the opportunities provided to them by the MHRC.
Industry Insights with Chris Rand from Aurora Scientific
Chris Rand, MSc, Sales and Marketing Manager, delves into the start and evolution of Aurora Scientific on this episode of #ShareScience, and our journey within the preclinical research world. He also discusses our path into the neuroscience space, and future directions the company is headed towards.
Functional Recovery of the Musculoskeletal System Following Injury – Leveraging the Large Animal Model
Watch Dr. Sarah Greising discuss the current pathophysiologic understanding of the skeletal muscle remaining following traumatic musculoskeletal injuries.
Muscle Physiology
Modelling Exercise-Induced Muscular Changes Using Dynamic Contractions
This publication review highlights how some of our instruments have been used to study the morphological characteristics and function of muscle, as well as myocellular signaling, in rodent models of exercise.
Mitigating Neuromuscular Deficits
This publication review highlights how several researchers have recently employed our instruments and technologies to better understand these mechanisms and uncover new therapeutic avenues for a variety of diseases and disorders.
Cardiac Biophysics
Cardiac biophysics is a necessary component for understanding cardiac disease and dysfunction. This publication review explores recent publications that investigate mechanical and biophysical properties of cardiac muscle.
Nerve versus Muscle Stimulation: When to Use?
This technical blog discusses the importance of choosing the correct method to measure hindlimb mechanics in animal models: nerve or muscle stimulation.
Best of 2021: Muscle Physiology
This publication review summarizes some of the best recent articles that fall under our Muscle Physiology category.
Using the 1700A Single Myofibril System – Tips and Tricks
The 1700A single myofibril system (sometimes referred to as the ‘Penguin’) is commonly used to investigate the active and passive properties of single myofibrils.
Laryngeal Muscles in Development and Disease
Courtesy of Glass et al. (2019). The larynx is an organ that sits in the top of the neck and holds
Musculoskeletal Complications of Cancer and its Treatments
In this webinar Dr. Bonetto presents evidence that bone preservation directly impacts muscle size and function in cachexia, thus also contributing to unraveling novel pathogenetic mechanisms and opening new avenues for treatment.
Olfaction & Plume Tracking
Staff Picks – TOP Publications of 2019…
As always, the entire team at Aurora Scientific has enjoyed reading and learning this year about the fantastic research and novel discoveries that are being
From Computational to Behavioral – how plume conditions affect odor tracking
The animal kingdom has had millennia to develop complex mechanisms to identify and localize airborne odors. And although humans have had a considerably shorter time
Studying Olfaction as a Measure of Animal Behavior
While it might be easy to forget as a human, olfaction is a critical input for behavior in many animals. The neural mechanisms for sensing,
Materials Science
How to Calibrate Your Dual-Mode Lever System Using DMC
This blog is intended to navigate you through the process of calibrating your 300C Dual-Mode Muscle Lever Series using Dynamic Muscle Control (DMC). A proper calibration
Beyond a Force Transducer: 300C Capabilities
Are you familiar with our 300C Dual-Mode Muscle Lever series, the center piece of our 1200A/1205A Isolated Muscle Systems and 1300A/1305A 3-in-1 Whole Animal Systems? Many researchers
Performing a Tube Repair of an ASI 400A Force Transducer
The procedure for replacing a broken output tube involves removing the broken tube and the glue used to hold it in place and then gluing