Animal Models for the Study of Human Disease: Chapter 22. Animal Models of Inflammatory Bowel Disease for Drug Discovery

Animal Models for the Study of Human Disease: Chapter 22. Animal Models of Inflammatory Bowel Disease for Drug Discovery
ISBN-10
0128072121
ISBN-13
9780128072127
Series
Animal Models for the Study of Human Disease
Category
Medical
Pages
1108
Language
English
Published
2013-05-29
Publisher
Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Authors
Atsushi Mizoguchi, Akira Andoh

Description

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, relapsing intestinal inflammatory condition with increasing incidence and prevalence around the world. Conventional and biological therapies have been successfully, or unsuccessfully, applied for the treatment of IBD and several new biological therapies are currently in clinical development. So far, more than 69 kinds of animal models have been established to study IBD, and they have provided significant contributions not only for understanding the mechanism of IBD but also for developing the rationale of new therapies. Although individual animal models can not fully reflect the pathogenesis of human IBD, the data from animal models—if a consensus is reached from many but not from one or few—may be used as a predictive factor of effectiveness for some biological therapies. Therefore, in this Chapter, we will discuss this possibility by comparing the data from animal models of IBD with data from some clinical trials.

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