4 ms·
Mice, by virtue of being vertebrates, and more specifically mammals, share much biology with us - from biochemistry, to cellular functions, to macro structures.
by the__alchemist 5y ago
Mice, by virtue of being vertebrates, and more specifically mammals, share much biology with us - from biochemistry, to cellular functions, to macro structures. There's a reasonable chance things that affect their bodies will affect ours as well.
- dundarious 5y agoThat is a justification for doing such studies, but it says nothing about whether they provide good enough evidence for dietary/behavioral changes in the general population. Why base our daily behavior on such thin evidence? Human trials should be the minimum requirement in the vast majority of cases.
- knuthsat 5y agoReasonable as in highly unlikely. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594046/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594046/ More than 95% of successful animal studies fail to progress further from human trials. There's obviously a great need for doing these tests in a different fashion.