Erschienen in:
01.04.2012 | Editorial
Animal Models of Neurological Disorders
verfasst von:
Marie-Francoise Chesselet, S. Thomas Carmichael
Erschienen in:
Neurotherapeutics
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Ausgabe 2/2012
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Excerpt
Animal modeling of human disease is a cornerstone to basic scientific studies of disease mechanisms and pre-clinical studies of potential therapies. Rapid progress in animal modeling has led to advancements in the understanding of fundamental disease mechanisms of many central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including initial cell death and later repair in stroke [
1,
2], motor and nonmotor pathologies in Parkinson’s Disease [
3,
4], and axonal regeneration in peripheral and optic nerve injury [
5,
6], among many others. Ideally, animal modeling produces basic insights, new views of the human disease, and preclinical trials of novel therapies. Much progress has been accomplished in that direction since the earlier coverage of this topic in the issue of
Neurotherapeutics in July 2005. Yet controversy and challenges in animal modeling of human CNS diseases continue to occur. …