Article ; Online: Alternatives to animal models to study bacterial infections.
2023 Volume 68, Issue 5, Page(s) 703–739
Abstract: Animal testing has made a significant and unequalled contribution to important discoveries and advancements in the fields of research, medicine, vaccine development, and drug discovery. Each year, millions of animals are sacrificed for various ... ...
| Abstract | Animal testing has made a significant and unequalled contribution to important discoveries and advancements in the fields of research, medicine, vaccine development, and drug discovery. Each year, millions of animals are sacrificed for various experiments, and this is an ongoing process. However, the debate on the ethical and sensible usage of animals in in vivo experimentation is equally important. The need to explore and adopt newer alternatives to animals so as to comply with the goal of reduce, refine, and replace needs attention. Besides the ever-increasing debate on ethical issues, animal research has additional drawbacks (need of trained labour, requirement of breeding area, lengthy protocols, high expenses, transport barriers, difficulty to extrapolate data from animals to humans, etc.). With this scenario, the present review has been framed to give a comprehensive insight into the possible alternative options worth exploring in this direction especially targeting replacements for animal models of bacterial infections. There have been some excellent reviews discussing on the alternate methods for replacing and reducing animals in drug research. However, reviews that discuss the replacements in the field of medical bacteriology with emphasis on animal bacterial infection models are purely limited. The present review discusses on the use of (a) non-mammalian models and (b) alternative systems such as microfluidic chip-based models and microdosing aiming to give a detailed insight into the prospects of these alternative platforms to reduce the number of animals being used in infection studies. This would enlighten the scientific community working in this direction to be well acquainted with the available new approaches and alternatives so that the 3R strategy can be successfully implemented in the field of antibacterial drug research and testing. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Humans ; Models, Animal ; Animal Experimentation ; Bacterial Infections/prevention & control ; Bacterial Infections/veterinary |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2023-08-26 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
| ZDB-ID | 240503-9 |
| ISSN | 1874-9356 ; 0015-5632 |
| ISSN (online) | 1874-9356 |
| ISSN | 0015-5632 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12223-023-01084-6 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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