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How do they find mice with ALS?
by dorkwood 5y ago
How do they find mice with ALS?
- ekianjo 5y agoMice models which have pretty much nothing to do with actual ALS.
- chaps 5y agoCan you clarify? Like, I would assume that if it's still named "ALS" that there are some commonalities. If those differences are big enough (to the extent that the models are nothing alike) why is the naming shared? Happy to accept "bad journalism"!
- johnisgood 5y agoI dunno, but when they do research on MS (multiple sclerosis), they do it on mice with experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE), which is an animal model of MS.
- ProjectArcturis 5y agoYou're getting downvoted, but this is exactly right. We create a mutant mouse that has symptoms that are somewhat similar to the disease we're studying. Then we find a drug that cures the "disease" in the mouse. Then we try it in humans and it fails and we make the shocked Pikachu face.
- sva_ 5y agoSimilar deal with Alzheimer's.
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- moffkalast 5y agoIf a medical researcher can't give a mouse cancer and cure it he ain't any good. Somewhat better ones can do the same for ALS it seems.