Zebrafish disease models in drug discovery: from preclinical modelling to clinical trials

EE Patton, LI Zon, DM Langenau - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Numerous drug treatments that have recently entered the clinic or clinical trials have their
genesis in zebrafish. Zebrafish are well established for their contribution to developmental …

Zebrafish as tools for drug discovery

CA MacRae, RT Peterson - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
The zebrafish has become a prominent vertebrate model for disease and has already
contributed to several examples of successful phenotype-based drug discovery. For the …

Identification of environmental factors that promote intestinal inflammation

LM Sanmarco, CC Chao, YC Wang, JE Kenison, Z Li… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified risk loci linked to inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD)—a complex chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract. The …

[HTML][HTML] Ketogenic diet reduces midlife mortality and improves memory in aging mice

JC Newman, AJ Covarrubias, M Zhao, X Yu, P Gut… - Cell metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
Ketogenic diets recapitulate certain metabolic aspects of dietary restriction such as reliance
on fatty acid metabolism and production of ketone bodies. We investigated whether an …

Deficiency of gluconeogenic enzyme PCK1 promotes metabolic-associated fatty liver disease through PI3K/AKT/PDGF axis activation in male mice

Q Ye, Y Liu, G Zhang, H Deng, X Wang, L Tuo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) encompasses a broad spectrum of hepatic
disorders, including steatosis, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and fibrosis. We …

Little fish, big data: zebrafish as a model for cardiovascular and metabolic disease

P Gut, S Reischauer, DYR Stainier… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
The burden of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases worldwide is staggering. The
emergence of systems approaches in biology promises new therapies, faster and cheaper …

Polystyrene nanoplastics disrupt glucose metabolism and cortisol levels with a possible link to behavioural changes in larval zebrafish

NR Brun, P Van Hage, ER Hunting… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Plastic nanoparticles originating from weathering plastic waste are emerging contaminants
in aquatic environments, with unknown modes of action in aquatic organisms. Recent …

Zebrafish: an important tool for liver disease research

W Goessling, KC Sadler - Gastroenterology, 2015 - Elsevier
As the incidence of hepatobiliary diseases increases, we must improve our understanding of
the molecular, cellular, and physiological factors that contribute to the pathogenesis of liver …

Leader β-cells coordinate Ca2+ dynamics across pancreatic islets in vivo

V Salem, LD Silva, K Suba, E Georgiadou… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Pancreatic β-cells form highly connected networks within isolated islets. Whether this
behaviour pertains to the situation in vivo, after innervation and during continuous perfusion …

The emerging use of zebrafish to model metabolic disease

A Seth, DL Stemple, I Barroso - Disease models & …, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
The zebrafish research community is celebrating! The zebrafish genome has recently been
sequenced, the Zebrafish Mutation Project (launched by the Wellcome Trust Sanger …