Animal models for microbicide safety and efficacy testing

Nanomedicine for tuberculosis: Insights from animal models

Patient noncompliance to current tuberculosis (TB) therapy owing to multidrug administration daily leads to treatment failure and emergence of multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant TB. To avoid the daily dosing, application of nanotechnology is the only viable solution by virtue of sustained release of drugs. Other potential advantages of the system include the possibility of selec...

The Development of Small Animal Models for Zika Virus Vaccine Efficacy Testing and Pathological Assessment

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus serologically grouped within the family Flaviviridae, which was initially isolated from a febrile sentinel monkey in the Zika Forest of Uganda in 1947. Subsequent genetic analyses have demonstrated the presence of two distinctive African and Asian viral genotypes. After years of being associated only with sporadic human illness, the first outbrea...

Optical coherence tomography for assessment of microbicide safety in a small animal model.

Sensitive imaging techniques for small animals are needed to assess drug toxicity in preclinical studies. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides a noninvasive tool for high-resolution, depth-resolved visualization of drug-induced changes in tissue morphology. In a mouse model, we utilize OCT to assess vaginal tissue integrity following the application of topical microbicides (drugs used to...

Nanomedicine for tuberculosis: Insights from animal models

Patient noncompliance to current tuberculosis (TB) therapy owing to multidrug administration daily leads to treatment failure and emergence of multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant TB. To avoid the daily dosing, application of nanotechnology is the only viable solution by virtue of sustained release of drugs. Other potential advantages of the system include the possibility of selec...

Applying exposure science to increase the utility of non-animal data in efficacy and safety testing