The importance of animal models in biomedical research: current insights and applications

A Domínguez-Oliva, I Hernández-Ávalos… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The present review highlights and examines the importance of animal
models in relevant topics concerning current human and animal health. Over the past five …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability of common mouse behavioural tests of anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effects of anxiolytics

M Rosso, R Wirz, AV Loretan, NA Sutter… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The validity of widely used rodent behavioural tests of anxiety has been questioned, as they
often fail to produce consistent results across independent replicate studies. In this study, we …

An autocatalytic multicomponent DNAzyme nanomachine for tumor-specific photothermal therapy sensitization in pancreatic cancer

J Yan, X Ma, D Liang, M Ran, D Zheng, X Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multicomponent deoxyribozymes (MNAzymes) have great potential in gene therapy, but
their ability to recognize disease tissue and further achieve synergistic gene regulation has …

Delivery of gene therapy through a cerebrospinal fluid conduit to rescue hearing in adult mice

BK Mathiesen, LM Miyakoshi, CR Cederroth… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Inner ear gene therapy has recently effectively restored hearing in neonatal mice, but it is
complicated in adulthood by the structural inaccessibility of the cochlea, which is embedded …

Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching

ASAB Ethical Committee/ABS Animal Care … - Animal …, 2024 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Behavioural studies are of great importance in increasing our understanding and
appreciation of human and nonhuman animals. In addition to providing knowledge about …

Animal to human translation: a systematic scoping review of reported concordance rates

CHC Leenaars, C Kouwenaar, FR Stafleu… - Journal of translational …, 2019 - Springer
Background Drug development is currently hampered by high attrition rates; many
developed treatments fail during clinical testing. Part of the attrition may be due to low …

Rodent models of post-traumatic stress disorder: behavioral assessment

A Verbitsky, D Dopfel, N Zhang - Translational psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Although the etiology and expression of psychiatric disorders are complex, mammals show
biologically preserved behavioral and neurobiological responses to valent stimuli which …

[图书][B] Measuring behaviour: an introductory guide

M Bateson, P Martin - 2021 - books.google.com
Measuring Behaviour is the established go-to text for anyone interested in scientific methods
for studying the behaviour of animals or humans. It is widely used by students, teachers and …

Predictive validity in drug discovery: what it is, why it matters and how to improve it

JW Scannell, J Bosley, JA Hickman… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Successful drug discovery is like finding oases of safety and efficacy in chemical and
biological deserts. Screens in disease models, and other decision tools used in drug …

Comparison of large animal models for acute ischemic stroke: which model to use?

A Taha, J Bobi, R Dammers, RM Dijkhuizen, AY Dreyer… - Stroke, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Translation of acute ischemic stroke research to the clinical setting remains limited over the
last few decades with only one drug, recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator …