Preface Lorenzo Galluzzi, Fernando Aranda Vega, Aitziber Buque and José Manuel Bravo-San Pedro 1. New mouse model to study aneurysm development Raquel Rodrigues Díez 2. MOUSE MODEL OF SECONDARY CYSTIC ECHINOCOCCOSIS Gustavo Mourglia-Ettlin 3. Modelling childhood cancer in Drosophila Isabel Adrados 4. Analysis of immunohistomorphological changes in the colonic mucosa in a high-saturated fat and high-cholesterol fed streptozotocin/nicotinamide diabetic rat model. Marina Hernandez Martin and F.J. Sanchez-Muniz 5.

Establishment of an orthotopic Glioblastoma mouse model for preclinical studies Nerea Iturrioz Rodriguez 6. Lateral Fluid Percussion Injury as a Model for Traumatic Brain Injury María Sancho and Luisa Lilia Rocha 7. Ovarian and colorectal peritoneal carcinomatosis in mouse models Ángela Bella Carreño 8. Genetically engineered mouse model of hepatocellular carcinoma Navarro Flor 9. Radiotherapy protocol in cancer mouse models Maria Esperanza Rodriguez Ruiz 10. Using C. elegans as a model for neurodegenerative diseases: Methodology and evaluation Elena Caldero-Escudero, Silvia Romero-Sanz and Sergio De La Fuente 11. Methodology for the induction of myocardial infarction and cardiac function evaluation Ernesto Martinez Martinez 12.

Behavioral assessment of fine socio-sexual olfactory cues detection in a mouse model of neurodegeneration Adrián Portalés and Alberto Sanchez Aguilera 13. Heat shock and thermotolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans: an overview of laboratory techniques Nektarios Tavernarakis 14. Using the model cestode Taenia crassiceps for the study of cysticercosis Marcela Alejandra Cucher.