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] Pharmaceutical treatment of bone loss: From animal models and drug development to future treatment strategies

MB Brent - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2023 - Elsevier
Animal models are fundamental to advance our knowledge of the underlying
pathophysiology of bone loss and to study pharmaceutical countermeasures against it. The …

Organ‐on‐a‐chip technologies for biomedical research and drug development: A focus on the vasculature

D Soto Veliz, KL Lin, C Sahlgren - Smart medicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Current biomedical models fail to replicate the complexity of human biology. Consequently,
almost 90% of drug candidates fail during clinical trials after decades of research and …

Quantification of Nitric Oxide in Single Cells Using the Single-Probe Mass Spectrometry Technique

Y Lan, X Chen, Z Yang - Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nitric oxide (NO) is a small molecule that plays important roles in biological systems and
human diseases. The abundance of intracellular NO is tightly related to numerous biological …

The Hitchhiker's guide to human therapeutic nanoparticle development

TI Ramos, CA Villacis-Aguirre, KV López-Aguilar… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nanomedicine plays an essential role in developing new therapies through novel drug
delivery systems, diagnostic and imaging systems, vaccine development, antibacterial tools …

Gene expression in organoids: an expanding horizon

A Smirnov, G Melino, E Candi - Biology Direct, 2023 - Springer
Recent development of human three-dimensional organoid cultures has opened new doors
and opportunities ranging from modelling human development in vitro to personalised …

Mouse Models for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pathogenesis: Show and Do Not Tell

P Soldevilla, C Vilaplana, PJ Cardona - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Science has been taking profit from animal models since the first translational experiments
back in ancient Greece. From there, and across all history, several remarkable findings have …

Current scenario of the search for new antifungal agents to treat Candida auris infections: An integrative review

DC de Moraes - Journal of Medical Mycology, 2022 - Elsevier
Candida auris emerges as an important causative agent of fungal infections, with worrisome
mortality rates, mainly in immunocompromised individuals. This scenario is worsened by the …

[HTML][HTML] Robust critical limb ischemia porcine model involving skeletal muscle necrosis

MS El Masry, SC Gnyawali, CK Sen - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
This work sought to develop a robust and clinically relevant swine model of critical limb
ischemia (CLI) involving the onset of ischemic muscle necrosis. CLI carries about 25–40 …

[HTML][HTML] Realistic aspects behind the application of the rat model of chemically-induced mammary cancer: Practical guidelines to obtain the best results

J Silva, AI Faustino-Rocha, JA Duarte… - Veterinary …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer is one of the most important public health problems worldwide. Despite the great
contribution of in-vitro studies for biomedical research, animals are essential to study …