University of Haifa

4 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

An In Vitro System to Study Tumor Dormancy and the Switch to Metastatic Growth

¹Department of Biology, University of Haifa, ²Transgenic Oncogenesis and Genomics Section, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute

A modified 3-D in vitro system is presented in which growth characteristics of several tumor cell lines in reconstituted basement membrane correlate with the dormant or proliferative behavior of the tumor cells at a metastatic secondary site in vivo.

JoVE Journal

Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure

Efrat Sher-Censor¹

¹The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Child Development and the Center for the Study of Child Development, University of Haifa

This paper introduces a method for assessing the coherence of parents' short narratives regarding their child and their relationship using the five-minute speech sample procedure.

Behavior

A System for Tracking the Dynamics of Social Preference Behavior in Small Rodents

Shai Netser¹, Shani Haskal¹, Hen Magalnik¹, Alex Bizer², Shlomo Wagner¹

¹Sagol Department of Neurobiology, The Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center, University of Haifa, ²Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa

Described here is a novel automated experimental system that offers an alternative to the three-chamber test and also solves several caveats. This system supplies multiple behavioral parameters that enable rigorous analysis of small rodent behavioral dynamics during the social preference and social novelty preference tests.

Behavior

Examining Changes in HRV and Emotion Following Artmaking with Three Different Art Materials

Johanna Czamanski-Cohen¹, Giora Galili², John J. B. Allen³

¹The Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, The School of Creative Arts Therapies, The Faculty of Health and Welfare, University of Haifa, ²The Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University of Israel, ³Department of Psychology, University of Arizona

The goal of the protocol is to guide researchers in conducting experiments that are intended to measure changes in self-reported emotional response and heart rate variability following art making with different materials. The protocol can easily be adapted for use in a variety of behavioral conditions and activities.