Effects of administration of a monoclonal antibody against mouse tumor necrosis factor alpha during pregnancy and lactation on the pre- and postnatal development of the mouse immune system.

Monoclonal antibodies directed against tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) are currently employed in the treatment of various immune-mediated diseases. These studies were designed to evaluate potential effects of anti-TNFalpha treatment in mice during pregnancy and lactation on the development of the immune system in the F1 generation. Pregnant CD-1 mice were treated with vehicle or with 10 or 40 mg/kg of an anti-mouse TNFalpha monoclonal antibody (mAb) (cV1q) on days 6, 12, and 18 of gestation and on days 3, 9, and 15 of lactation.

Development of a method for the evaluation of wound tensile strength in cynomolgus macaques.

Introduction: Numerous in vivo wound healing models have been developed to evaluate the potential of drugs to affect the processes involved in wound healing, including angiogenesis. The majority of these models are frequently conducted in rodents, rabbits, and pigs and are terminal in nature. Due to the species specificity of many biotherapeutic molecules under development a non-terminal model in the cynomolgus monkey was evaluated in this study.