Zebrafish cancer: the state of the art and the path forward

R White, K Rose, L Zon - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
The zebrafish is a recent addition to animal models of human cancer, and studies using this
model are rapidly contributing major insights. Zebrafish develop cancer spontaneously, after …

A model 450 million years in the making: zebrafish and vertebrate immunity

SA Renshaw, NS Trede - Disease models & mechanisms, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Since its first splash 30 years ago, the use of the zebrafish model has been extended from a
tool for genetic dissection of early vertebrate development to the functional interrogation of …

Forward and reverse genetic approaches for the analysis of vertebrate development in the zebrafish

ND Lawson, SA Wolfe - Developmental cell, 2011 - cell.com
The development of facile forward and reverse genetic approaches has propelled the
deconvolution of gene function in biology. While the origins of these techniques reside in the …

Zebrafish screen identifies novel compound with selective toxicity against leukemia

S Ridges, WL Heaton, D Joshi, H Choi… - Blood, The Journal …, 2012 - ashpublications.org
To detect targeted antileukemia agents we have designed a novel, high-content in vivo
screen using genetically engineered, T-cell reporting zebrafish. We exploited the …

High-throughput cell transplantation establishes that tumor-initiating cells are abundant in zebrafish T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

ACH Smith, AR Raimondi, CD Salthouse… - Blood, The Journal …, 2010 - ashpublications.org
Self-renewal is a feature of cancer and can be assessed by cell transplantation into immune-
compromised or immune-matched animals. However, studies in zebrafish have been …

The zebrafish as a model for cancer

MC Mione, NS Trede - Disease models & mechanisms, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
For the last three decades significant parts of national science budgets, and international
and private funding worldwide, have been dedicated to cancer research. This has resulted …

Identification and characterization of T reg–like cells in zebrafish

M Kasheta, CA Painter, FE Moore, R Lobbardi… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - rupress.org
Regulatory T (T reg) cells are a specialized sublineage of T lymphocytes that suppress
autoreactive T cells. Functional studies of T reg cells in vitro have defined multiple …

Zebrafish tumor assays: the state of transplantation

AM Taylor, LI Zon - 2010 - liebertpub.com
Tumor transplant studies are important tools for studying cancer biology in a model
organism. Transplantation is especially important for assaying tumor cell malignancy and …

Genetic engineering of zebrafish in cancer research

L Raby, P Völkel, X Le Bourhis, PO Angrand - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is an excellent model to study a wide diversity of human cancers. In
this review, we provide an overview of the genetic and reverse genetic toolbox allowing the …

Learning to Fish with Genetics: A Primer on the Vertebrate Model Danio rerio

NG Holtzman, MK Iovine, JO Liang, J Morris - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In the last 30 years, the zebrafish has become a widely used model organism for research
on vertebrate development and disease. Through a powerful combination of genetics and …