Article: Use of Agriculturally Important Animals as Models in Biomedical Research.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
2021 Volume 1354, Page(s) 315–333
Abstract: Livestock have contributed significantly to advances in biomedicine and offer unique advantages over rodent models. The human is the ideal biomedical model; however, ethical reasons limit the testing of hypotheses and treatments in humans. Rodent models ... ...
Abstract | Livestock have contributed significantly to advances in biomedicine and offer unique advantages over rodent models. The human is the ideal biomedical model; however, ethical reasons limit the testing of hypotheses and treatments in humans. Rodent models are frequently used as alternatives to humans due to size, low cost, and ease of genetic manipulation, and have contributed tremendously to our understanding of human health and disease. However, the use of rodents in translational research pose challenges for researchers due to physiological differences to humans. The use of livestock species as biomedical models can address these challenges as livestock have several similarities to human anatomy, physiology, genetics, and metabolism and their larger size permits collection of more frequent and often larger samples. Additionally, recent advances in genetics in livestock species allow for studies in genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, which have the added benefit of applications to both humans in biomedical research and livestock in improving production. In this review, we provide an overview of scientific findings using livestock and benefits of each model to the livestock industry and to biomedical research. |
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MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Biomedical Research ; Genomics ; Livestock ; Metabolomics ; Translational Medical Research |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2021-11-22 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
ISSN | 2214-8019 ; 0065-2598 |
ISSN (online) | 2214-8019 |
ISSN | 0065-2598 |
DOI | 10.1007/978-3-030-85686-1_16 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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