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7 - Role of Animal Models in Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Development

from Section 2 - Non-clinical Assessment of Alzheimer’s Disease Candidate Drugs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

By
Jefferson Kinney ,
Amanda M. Leisgang Osse ,
Bruce Lamb ,
Adrian Oblack ,
Alan D. Palkowitz  and
Frank J. Belas
Edited by
Jeffrey Cummings ,
Jefferson Kinney  and
Howard Fillit
Jeffrey Cummings
Affiliation:
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jefferson Kinney
Affiliation:
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Howard Fillit
Affiliation:
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
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Summary

Animal model systems play a fundamental role in the development and evaluation of novel treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The examination of safety and tolerability in animal models is a necessary first step prior to any human clinical trials. Equally important, preclinical testing of novel therapeutics in disease relevant models is required for the determination if a potential therapeutic should advance. There are a number of important considerations in the preclinical workflow that range from selection of the most appropriate animal model related to drug mechanism of action, as well as what AD-relevant measures are to be evaluated to determine if a candidate therapy should advance. In this chapter we highlight the process of preclinical animal model testing for novel therapeutics in AD, as well as detail several of the models utilized and the measures relevant to AD. We also include the emerging approaches to provide better AD animal models (MODEL-AD) as well as emerging approaches to refine the process of identifying new treatments (TREAT-AD).

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Alzheimer’s diseaseanimal modelsdrug developmentclinical trialstransgenic miceinflammation
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Alzheimer's Disease Drug Development
Research and Development Ecosystem
 , pp. 73 - 94
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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