«To
really model these diseases, precisely mimicking each human mutation is critical.»
Not exact matches
«The fact that the dog
model seems to
really faithfully recapitulate the clinical
disease is
really very telling,» he says.
And we
really need to understand the process if we want to create better
disease models and to help the millions of patients waiting for more effective treatments.»
«Large animal
models of human
disease, like cats, are
really helpful for determining what's going to happen in a child when you're treating them,» Vite said.
But are mice and rats good
models for these complex
diseases, can depression in dogs
really equate with depression in people, and how much does that matter?
A very large number of changes have been discovered in HD
model mice and then subsequently observed in human HD patients, suggesting the mice are useful research tools, even if they don't
really have Huntington's
disease.
One concern within the field has been how poorly these mouse
models really mimic human
disease.»
Conventional medicine, as you called it earlier, was created in response to mainly acute
disease where you have a single cause and single effect, and now medicine is trying to adapt to this now environment of chronic
disease, which is driven by lifestyle, it's multi-systemic, it's across many different organs, and so that linear
model of thinking doesn't
really work.
If some economist says there is no link between cigarettes and
disease, I
really don't want them having anything to do with
modeling healthcare policies or tobacco - control laws.
In an interview with Science of Relationships, she said, «Teaching [about sex] from a pleasure - based
model rather than a
disease - based
model really touched my soul.»