Maximilian Kleinert, Christoffer Clemmensen, Susanna M Hofmann, Mary C Moore, Simone Renner, Stephen C Woods, Peter Huypens, Johannes Beckers, Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Annette Schürmann, Mostafa Bakhti, Martin Klingenspor, Mark Heiman, Alan D Cherrington, Michael Ristow, Heiko Lickert, Eckhard Wolf, Peter J Havel, Timo D Müller, Matthias H Tschöp
More than one-third of the worldwide population is overweight or obese and therefore at risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus. In order to mitigate this pandemic, safer and more potent therapeutics are urgently required. This necessitates the continued use of animal models to discover, validate and optimize novel therapeutics for their safe use in humans. In order to improve the transition from bench to bedside, researchers must not only carefully select the appropriate model but also draw the right conclusions...
March 2018: Nature Reviews. Endocrinology