Noble Life Sciences (Gaithersburg, MD) and IBT Bioservices (Gaithersburg, MD) announce a newly optimized cotton rat model for preclinical studies of influenza therapies and vaccines. The companies jointly developed the model of influenza infection in the cotton rat.
Cotton rats are a vital tool to study influenza infection because adaptation of human influenza strains is not required for virus replication in the respiratory tract. Moreover, virus infection results in histopathological lesions in the lungs that are similar to those seen during natural infection of humans.
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