ArticleeNeuro2024
Of Mice and Men: The Inter-individual Variability of the Brain's Response to Drugs.
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Abstract
Biological variation is ubiquitous in nature. Despite highly standardized breeding and husbandry under controlled environmental conditions, phenotypic diversity exists in laboratory mice and rats just as it does in humans. The resulting inter-individual variability affects various characteristics of animal disease models, including the responsiveness to drugs. Thus, the common practice of averaging data within an experimental group can lead to misinterpretations in neuroscience and other research fields. In this commentary, the impact of inter-individual variation in drug responsiveness is illustrated by examples from the testing of antiseizure medications in rodent temporal lobe epilepsy models. Individual mice and rats rendered epileptic by treatment according to standardized protocols fall into groups that either do or do not respond to antiseizure medications, thus mimicking the clinical situation in patients with epilepsy. Population responses are not normally distributed, and divergent responding is concealed in averages subjected to parametric statistical tests. Genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors are believed to contribute to inter-individual variation in drug response but the specific molecular and physiological causes are not well understood. Being aware of inter-individual variability in rodents allows an improved interpretation of both behavioral phenotypes and drug effects in a pharmacological experiment.
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