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For anyone wondering about what's wrong with mouse testing, here is a funny but informative video on the subject[1]. One highlight:

>After a drug is confirmed as safe and efficacious in preclinical studies, it is tested in healthy human volunteers for first in man trials. In 2006, a phase I clinical study was conducted for a CD28 superagonist antibody TGN1412 in six human volunteers. After very first infusion of a dose 500 times smaller than that found safe in animal studies, all six human volunteers faced life-threatening conditions involving multiorgan failure for which they were moved to intensive care unit

Source[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvJHq2FJPDM

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964774/



Which shows that mice are an imperfect model, not that they don't have substantial value.


Right? It's like, "Woman dies from water overdosw during radio contest, therefore all water consumption is at very least unhealthy"


I believe it concludes that while 500x lower, 0.1mg would bind 85-98% of all possible CD28 receptors -meaning that "small" dose would have shown the maximum effect of the drug.




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