Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 392-398.DOI: 10.12300/j.issn.1674-5817.2021.009

Special Issue: 专家论坛 实验动物资源开发与利用

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Advantages and Progress of Using Chinese Hamsters to Construct Disease Models

GAO Jiping1, CHEN Zhaoyang1, XUAN Ruijing1, ZHANG Ruihu1, SONG Guohua1,2   

  1. 1. Laboratory Animal Center of Shanxi Medical University, Shanxi Key Laboratory of Experimental Animal Science and Human Disease Animal Models, Taiyuan 030001, China;
    2. Mental Health Hospital Affiliated to Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, China
  • Received:2021-01-05 Revised:2021-05-16 Published:2021-10-28
  • Contact: SONG Guohua, E-mail: ykdsgh@163.com

Abstract: Chinese hamsters are experimental animals originally from China. They play an important role in experimental research on medicine and biology. They are widely used in life science research, such as genetics, infectious diseases, tissue culture, especially in animal models and mechanism research, such as diabetes and oral cancer. This paper reviews the relevant applied studies of Chinese hamsters in disease animal models since its development, and discusses the advantages and problems associated with the use of these animals in biomedical research.

Key words: Chinese hamster, Biomedicine, Animal model

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