“…6 More importantly, NHPs are suitable for magnetic resonance imaging, endovascular procedures, long-term functional assessments, behavioral testing, and extensive physiological monitoring. 7,8 However, more efforts are still needed to optimize NHP stroke models in translational studies. For example, in the nerinetide pre-clinical evaluation, their NHP study did not use the approach of alteplase-based reperfusion, leading to a lack of detecting the potential effects of alteplase on nerinetide, which might account for the different effects of nerinetide in the stroke patients receiving alteplase or not in their phase III clinical trial.…”