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I find myself wondering whether a useful testing step between mice and people might be the community of small dogs with IVDD. French bulldogs, dachshunds, and c
by markdeloura 5y ago
I find myself wondering whether a useful testing step between mice and people might be the community of small dogs with IVDD. French bulldogs, dachshunds, and corgis seem particularly susceptible and many of them wind up with rear paralysis. https://www.thedogsdown.com/how-can-ivdd-cause-paralysis/ https://www.thedogsdown.com/how-can-ivdd-cause-paralysis/
- yread 5y agoMy wife works on regenerative medicine for spine and they use dogs (and horses) a lot. Cells are similar and they suffer from the same problems. It's mostly dogs who die of natural causes though as dogs are too cute to experiment on...
- tclancy 5y agoYou’d like to think that, but we’ve had multiple beagle rescues who would disagree. And they were the control population because the actual test subjects get killed.
- GordonS 5y agoIt's not unusual for dogs to be used in medical research. Aside from the more well-known use of rats, rabbits are also commonly used.