Modeling Neurodegeneration in Zebrafish
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Yanwei Xi & Sandra Noble & Marc Ekker
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
The zebrafish, Danio rerio, has been established as an excellent vertebrate model for the study of developmental biology and gene function. It also has proven to be a valuable model to study human diseases. Here, we reviewed recent publications using zebrafish to study the pathology of human neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Alzheimer’s. These studies indicate that zebrafish genes and their human homologues have conserved functions with respect to the etiology of neurodegenerative diseases. The characteristics of the zebrafish and the experimental approaches to which it is amenable make this species a useful complement to other animal models for the study of pathologic mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and for the screening of compounds with therapeutic potential.
Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep (2011) 11:274–282 DOI 10.1007/s11910-011-0182-2 Published online: 27 January 2011
