Alzheimer Disease

Rat model helps test new AD drugs

Published in Drug Week, October 17th, 2003

Samaritan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (SPHC) and Samaritan Research Labs, Georgetown University, announced that they have engineered a scientific tool, a pharmacologic Rat Model, for the testing of new Alzheimer disease (AD) drugs.

The model moves swiftly through AD, starting with the onset of AD symptoms and finishing with Alzheimer-like memory loss, in 4 weeks.

New techniques and methodologies to produce animal models provide researchers with ways to more efficiently study human disease, and the therapeutics that hold promise for those diseases. The use of engineered animal models to explore the selection of appropriate drug targets holds great promise...

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Source: Drug Week (2003-10-17)

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