The adult zebrafish has the potential to become an important model for diabetes-related
research. To realize this potential, small-scale methods for analyzing pancreas function are …

Collecting blood from laboratory animals is necessary for a wide variety of scientific studies,
but the small size of the zebrafish makes this common procedure challenging. We …

Fish are good for your health in more ways than you may expect. For one, eating fish is a
common dietary recommendation for a healthy diet. However, fish have much more to …

Obesity is a major cause of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in mammals. We have
previously established a zebrafish model of diet-induced obesity (DIO zebrafish) by …

Obesity and diabetes now considered global epidemics. The prevalence rates of diabetes
are increasing in parallel with the rates of obesity and the strong connection between these …

Repeated blood collection is one of the most common techniques performed on laboratory
animals. However, a non-lethal protocol for blood collection from zebrafish has not been …

The zebrafish has been used as an animal model for studies of several human diseases. It
can serve as a powerful preclinical platform for studies of molecular events and therapeutic …

Insulin resistance creates an environment that promotes β-cell failure and development of
diabetes. Understanding the events that lead from insulin resistance to diabetes is …

Knowledge on the role of early nutritional stimuli as triggers of metabolic pathways in fish is
extremely scarce. The objective of the present study was to assess the long-term effects of …

Teleost fish include many different species, having a large economic and environmental
impact. Glucose is a key source of energy for most vertebrate organisms. Fish as well as …