Physiologically relevant human tissue models for infectious diseases.
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SUBMITTER: Mills M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5365153 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Physiologically relevant human tissue models for infectious diseases.
Mills Melody M Estes Mary K MK
Drug discovery today 20160625 9
Limitations of animal infection models have engendered longstanding obstacles in basic science and translational research. Lack of suitable animal models, the need for better predictors of human immune responses and pathogens that grow poorly or not at all outside the human host impact our ability to study infectious agents that cause human disease, generation of essential tools for genetic manipulation of microbial pathogens and development of vaccines, therapeutics and host-targeted immunother ...[more]
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