Overview
- Provides an overview on the pathophysiology of common diseases in human and selected model animals
- Introduces new concepts in comparative medicine
- Critically discusses the need of animal experimental models for understanding the molecular mechanisms of human diseases
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This book highlights the most significant diseases for humans and their dogs, cats and horses. The examples discussed, which include allergies, osteoporosis, cancer and many more, illustrate that humans and their companion animals may in fact develop similar diseases.
The reader - whether expert or interested lay - can thus directly compare between human and animal patients. The animal patient thereby represents a natural disease model, which besides the experimental models, is urgently needed to improve the therapeutic options for both humans and animals.
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Book Title: Comparative Medicine
Book Subtitle: Disorders Linking Humans with Their Animals
Editors: Erika Jensen-Jarolim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47007-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47005-4Published: 09 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83636-2Published: 17 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47007-8Published: 27 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 230
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Models, Animal Physiology, Human Physiology, Internal Medicine, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science