Animal models of liver diseases and their application in experimental surgery

Česká verzia

Authors: A. Malečková ^1,2; Z. Tonar ^1,2; P. Mik ³; K. Michalová ⁴; V. Liška ^2,5; R. Pálek ^2,5; J. Rosendorf ^2,5; M. Králíčková ^1,2; V. Třeška ⁵
Authors place of work: Ústav histologie a embryologie, Lékařská fakulta v Plzni, Univerzita Karlova ¹; Biomedicínské centrum, Lékařská fakulta v Plzni, Univerzita Karlova ²; Evropské centrum excelence NTIS, Fakulta aplikovaných věd, Západočeská univerzita v Plzni ³; Šiklův ústav patologie, Lékařská fakulta v Plzni, Univerzita Karlova ⁴; Chirurgická klinika, Fakultní nemocnice Plzeň, Lékařská fakulta v Plzni, Univerzita Karlova ⁵
Published in the journal: Rozhl. Chir., 2019, roč. 98, č. 3, s. 100-109.
Category: Review

Summary

Both acute and chronic liver diseases are frequent and potentially lethal conditions. Development of new therapeutic strategies and drugs depends on understanding of liver injury pathogenesis and progression, which can be studied on suitable animal models. Due to the complexity of liver injury, the understanding of underlying mechanisms of liver diseases and their treatment has been limited by the lack of satisfactory animal models. SO far, a wide variety of animals has been used to mimic human liver disease, however, none of the models include all its clinical aspects seen in humans. Rodents, namely rats and mice, represent the largest group of liver disease models despite their limited resemblance to human. On the other hand, large animal models like pigs, previously used mostly in acute liver failure modeling, are now playing an important role in studying various acute and chronic liver diseases. Although significant progress has been made, the research in hepatology should continue to establish animal models anatomically and physiologically as close to human as possible to allow for translation of the experimental results to human medicine. This review presents various approaches to the study of acute and chronic liver diseases in animal models, with special emphasis on large animal models and their role in experimental surgery.

Keywords:

liver disease – Animal models – experimental surgery – pig

Zdroje

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