Hematological changes as prognostic indicators of survival: similarities between Gottingen minipigs, humans, and other large animal models.

The animal efficacy rule addressing development of drugs for selected disease categories has pointed out the need to develop alternative large animal models. Based on this rule, the pathophysiology of the disease in the animal model must be well characterized and must reflect that in humans. So far,...

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Main Authors: Maria Moroni, Eric Lombardini, Rudolph Salber, Mehdi Kazemzedeh, Vitaly Nagy, Cara Olsen, Mark H Whitnall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3182184?pdf=render