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 …

The burden of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases worldwide is staggering. The
emergence of systems approaches in biology promises new therapies, faster and cheaper …

In vivo medical imaging has made great progress due to advances in the engineering of
imaging devices and developments in the chemistry of imaging probes. Several modalities …

Food uptake follows rules defined by feeding behaviour that determines the kind and
quantity of food ingested by fish larvae as well as how live prey and food particles are …

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 …

The zebrafish has become a widely used model organism because of its fecundity, its
morphological and physiological similarity to mammals, the existence of many genomic tools …

Animals have developed the means for supporting complex and dynamic consortia of
microorganisms during their life cycle. A transcendent view of vertebrate biology therefore …

The zebrafish has become one of the most important model organisms to study biologial
processes in vivo. As a vertebrate that has many of the strengths of invertebrate model …

Phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) are major phospholipids in
mammalian membranes. In liver, PC is synthesized via the choline pathway or by …

All animals exist in intimate associations with microorganisms that play important roles in the
hosts' normal development and tissue physiology. In vertebrates, the most populous and …