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Of Mice and Men: Comparative Analysis of Neuro-Inflammatory Mechanisms in Human and Mouse Using Cause-and-Effect Models

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JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
Volume 59, Issue 3, Pages 1045-1055

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IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-170255

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Alzheimer's disease; human; mice; neuroinflammation

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  1. Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) [115568]
  2. European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations companies'

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Perturbance in inflammatory pathways have been identified as one of the major factors which leads to neurodegenerative diseases (NDD). Owing to the limited access of human brain tissues and the immense complexity of the brain, animal models, specifically mouse models, play a key role in advancing the NDD field. However, many of these mouse models fail to reproduce the clinical manifestations and end points of the disease. NDD drugs, which passed the efficacy test in mice, were repeatedly not successful in clinical trials. There are numerous studies which are supporting and opposing the applicability of mouse models in neuroinflammation and NDD. In this paper, we assessed to what extend a mouse can mimic the cellular and molecular interactions in humans at a mechanism level. Based on our mechanistic modeling approach, we investigate the failure of a neuroinflammation targeted drug in the late phases of clinical trials based on the comparative analyses between the two species.

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