There is a reluctance in preclinical rheumatoid arthritis research to consider non human primates as useful disease models in translational research and for the development of anti-rheumatic drugs. This review pleads for the usage of nonhuman primates disease models to bridge the wide immunological gap between rodents and the RA patient.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ddmod.2008.06.003, hdl.handle.net/1765/30505
Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models
Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam

Vierboom, M., Breedveld, E., & 't Hart, B. (2008). Preclinical evaluation of anti-rheumatic drugs in a non-human primate model of arthritic disease. Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models (Vol. 5, pp. 89–95). doi:10.1016/j.ddmod.2008.06.003