AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
2003 MAR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers should consider the relevance of large animal models when conducting immunological studies.
"The main advances in immunology have been forged or underpinned by animal experiments. However, animal research now focuses excessively on one laboratory species, and there is too much redundant repetition and too few transfers from basic discovery to successful clinical application," researchers in New Zealand report.
"These features can be improved markedly by placing more emphasis on biological relevance when evaluating animal models and by taking greater advantage of the unique experimental opportunities that are offered by large animals," wrote Wayne R. Hein and Philip J. Griebel at AgResearch Ltd.
Hein and Griebel published their ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Large animal models should have role in immunological research.(Brief...