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Drug discovery in prostate cancer mouse models

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Overall, mouse modeling is an essential part of prostate cancer research and drug discovery and emerging technologies and better and ever-increasing forms of communication are moving the field in a hopeful direction.
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Introduction: The mouse is an important, though imperfect, organism with which to model human disease and to discover and test novel drugs in a preclinical setting. Many experimental strategies have been used to discover new biological and molecular targets in the mouse, with the hopes of translating these discoveries into novel drugs to treat prostate cancer in humans. Modeling prostate cancer in the mouse, however, has been challenging, and often drugs that work in mice have failed in human trials.Areas covered: The authors discuss the similarities and differences between mice and men; the types of mouse models that exist to model prostate cancer; practical questions one must ask when using a mouse as a model; and potential reasons that drugs do not often translate to humans. They also discuss the current value in using mouse models for drug discovery to treat prostate cancer and what needs are still unmet in field.Expert opinion: With proper planning and following practical guidelines by the researcher...

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RAG-1-deficient mice have no mature B and T lymphocytes

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