title: Using silkworms as a laboratory animal to evaluate medicines and foods.
abstract: For this special issue, we, the Editors of Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics, have asked researchers who are using silkworms to actively develop drugs and study foods to summarize their recent work. Our profound hope is that this special issue encourages researchers who are helping to develop the new field of "using silkworms as a laboratory animal to evaluate medicines and foods".
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo.
authors.forename: Kazuhisa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sekimizu
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hamamoto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D012831:Bombyx / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000196:embryology / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D019587:Dietary Supplements; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods*; D057166:High-Throughput Screening Assays; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva / Q000187:drug effects; D023421:Models, Animal