Animal Research The Treatment And Prevention Of Diseases

Animal research plays an important role in the understanding of diseases by scientists as well as in the development of medical treatment that are effective. Animals normally provide scientists with models, which have complex living systems that consist of organs, cells and tissues (Fisher, 2014). These animal models not only interact with stimuli but they also react to it thereby giving researchers a picture of how a compound is moving through the living system as well as an idea of how that stimuli can react in the human body. Most animals’ researches are purposely used on the treatment and prevention of diseases. In addition, they are also used in the treatment of injuries. Mice and rats are the animals that are mostly used and they†¦show more content†¦Proponent’s views of animal-based research Even though there are many claims that are presented by animal activists why the use of animals for medical research should be banned, animal based experiments have contributed significantly in improving the quality and length of human lives. There are several ways in which animals are used in the conduct of human research (Fisher, 2014). First, animals are used in the development of new drugs that help in treatment of human diseases. There are many diseases that affect human beings such as diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS, heart diseases among others. In order to develop effective drugs to treat the above diseases, animals are used as models in researches that result in the development of drugs. The first benefit of using animal based research is that it has helped in the development of cancer drugs. Initially, the dominant methods that were used in the treatment of cancer were surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Due to conducting animal-based researches, scientists have managed to come up with new understanding of tumor biology, which helps in coming up with treatment methods that directly kill cancerous cells and which are molecularly different from the normal cells. The use of knowledge to design new drugs, which focus in the abnormalities, is referred as rational drug design and many people perceive it as the future reality for the treatment of cancer. Animal based research has also been used in the development of drugs