Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases
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Abstract
A cornerstone of modern biomedical research is the use of mouse models to explore basic pathophysiological mechanisms, evaluate new therapeutic approaches, and make go or no-go decisions to carry new drug candidates forward into clinical trials. Systematic studies evaluating how well murine models mimic human inflammatory diseases are nonexistent. Here, we show that, although acute inflammatory stresses from different etiologies result in highly similar genomic responses in humans, the responses in corresponding mouse models correlate poorly with the human conditions and also, one another. Among genes changed significantly in humans, the murine orthologs are close to random in matching their human counterparts (e.g., R(2) between 0.0 and 0.1). In addition to improvements in the current animal model systems, our study supports higher priority for translational medical research to focus on the more complex human conditions rather than relying on mouse models to study human inflammatory diseases.
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The record
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Topic
- Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
- Field
- Medicine
- Canadian institutions
- University of TorontoSt. Michael's Hospital
- Funders
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesNational Institute of General Medical SciencesNational Human Genome Research Institute
- Keywords
- Computational biologyHuman studiesTranslational medicineTranslational researchAnimal modelInflammatory responseBiologyBioinformaticsMedicineInflammationImmunologyGeneticsBiotechnology
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