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A Mouse Model for Pathogen-induced Chronic Inflammation at Local and Systemic Sites
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Animal models in infection and inflammation - chance and necessity
Andreas Radbruch1, John Isaacs
1Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany. radbruch@drfz.de
European Journal of Immunology
|August 13, 2009
Abstract:
In biomedical research, to understand pathogenesis and test innovative therapeutic strategies, animal models of human disease are a bare necessity. We cannot do without them, but could we do better with them? In this issue of the European Journal of Immunology a series of Viewpoints discusses the pros and cons of currently available animal models that address the clinical challenges of immunology in infection and inflammatory diseases.
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