Zebrafish as a model for infectious disease and immune function

C Sullivan, CH Kim - Fish & shellfish immunology, 2008 - Elsevier
The zebrafish, Danio rerio, has come to the forefront of biomedical research as a powerful
model for the study of development, neurobiology, and genetics of humans. In recent years …

Evolution of the zebrafish model: from development to immunity and infectious disease

HA Phelps, MN Neely - Zebrafish, 2005 - liebertpub.com
The successful zebrafish developmental model has now expanded to being used as a
model for the analysis of host–pathogen interactions during infectious disease. Numerous …

[HTML][HTML] Zebrafish as a model for fish diseases in aquaculture

LG Jørgensen - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
The use of zebrafish as a model for human conditions is widely recognized. Within the last
couple of decades, the zebrafish has furthermore increasingly been utilized as a model for …

[HTML][HTML] Zebrafish as an immunological model system

JA Yoder, ME Nielsen, CT Amemiya, GW Litman - Microbes and infection, 2002 - Elsevier
Two decades of research have established the zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a significant model
system for studying vertebrate development and gene structure–function relationships …

Host-pathogen interactions made transparent with the zebrafish model

AH Meijer, HP Spaink - Current drug targets, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
The zebrafish holds much promise as a high-throughput drug screening model for immune-
related diseases, including inflammatory and infectious diseases and cancer. This is due to …

Immunology and zebrafish: spawning new models of human disease

ND Meeker, NS Trede - Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 2008 - Elsevier
The zebrafish has emerged as a powerful new vertebrate model of human disease. Initially
prominent in developmental biology, the zebrafish has now been adopted into varied fields …

Zebrafish: model for the study of inflammation and the innate immune response to infectious diseases

B Novoa, A Figueras - Current topics in innate immunity II, 2012 - Springer
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has been extensively used in biomedical research as a model to
study vertebrate development and hematopoiesis and recently, it has been adopted into …

Of fish and men: using zebrafish to fight human diseases

J Ablain, LI Zon - Trends in cell biology, 2013 - cell.com
Long restricted to the field of developmental biology, the use of the zebrafish (Danio rerio)
has extended to the study of human pathogenesis. Fostered by the rapid adaptation of new …

Modeling infectious diseases in the context of a developing immune system

S Masud, V Torraca, AH Meijer - Current topics in developmental biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Zebrafish has been used for over a decade to study the mechanisms of a wide variety of
inflammatory disorders and infections, with models ranging from bacterial, viral, to fungal …

A star with stripes: zebrafish as an infection model

AM van der Sar, BJ Appelmelk… - Trends in …, 2004 - cell.com
The zebrafish, one of the favourite animals of developmental biologists, is rapidly gaining
ground in infection models. Various experimental infection models have been set up to study …