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Chimpanzees are first animal shown to develop telltale markers of Alzheimer’s disease
Article Written by: Sara Reardon Analysis of chimp brains reveals protein plaques and tangles that signal brain disease in humans, but whether the animals can develop dementia is unclear. Aged chimpanzees develop brain characteristics that are similar — but not identical — to those seen in early Alzheimer's…
Mouse
Mice are pivotal in medical progress, facilitating treatments for cancer, heart disease, neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's, and psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and schizophrenia.
Rat
Rats are essential models in research, aiding studies in physiology, immunology, pharmacology, nutrition, behavior, and learning, leading to medical advancements in obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular, neurological, and immune-related diseases.
Fruit Fly
Fruit flies have helped to develop drugs designed to treat a range of diseases from skin infections and genetic disorders to pneumonia, and meningitis. Some of the recent research with fruit flies has focused on understanding Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, spastic paraplegia, cancer, obesity and insomnia.
Marmoset
The common marmoset, due to its size and similarities with humans, is crucial in safety, reproductive biology, neuroscience, and drug development studies. In multiple sclerosis research, its immunological likeness aids therapy development.