Advancements in zebrafish applications for 21st century toxicology

GR Garcia, PD Noyes, RL Tanguay - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2016 - Elsevier
The zebrafish model is the only available high-throughput vertebrate assessment system,
and it is uniquely suited for studies of in vivo cell biology. A sequenced and annotated …

Emerging therapies and challenges in spinal muscular atrophy

MA Farrar, SB Park, S Vucic, KA Carey… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease with severity
ranging from progressive infantile paralysis and premature death (type I) to limited motor …

Neurexins in autism and schizophrenia—a review of patient mutations, mouse models and potential future directions

A Tromp, B Mowry, J Giacomotto - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Mutations in the family of neurexins (NRXN1, NRXN2 and NRXN3) have been repeatedly
identified in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SCZ) …

Reduced C9orf72 function leads to defective synaptic vesicle release and neuromuscular dysfunction in zebrafish

Z Butti, YE Pan, J Giacomotto, SA Patten - Communications biology, 2021 - nature.com
The most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and fronto-temporal
dementia (FTD) is a hexanucleotide repeat expansion within the C9orf72 gene. Reduced …

Association of schizophrenia risk with disordered niacin metabolism in an Indian genome-wide association study

S Periyasamy, S John, R Padmavati… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in European populations have
identified more than 100 schizophrenia-associated loci. A schizophrenia GWAS in a unique …

Bioenergetic status modulates motor neuron vulnerability and pathogenesis in a zebrafish model of spinal muscular atrophy

PJ Boyd, WY Tu, HK Shorrock, EJN Groen… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Degeneration and loss of lower motor neurons is the major pathological hallmark of spinal
muscular atrophy (SMA), resulting from low levels of ubiquitously-expressed survival motor …

Modular transient nanoclustering of activated β2-adrenergic receptors revealed by single-molecule tracking of conformation-specific nanobodies

RS Gormal, P Padmanabhan… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
None of the current superresolution microscopy techniques can reliably image the changes
in endogenous protein nanoclustering dynamics associated with specific conformations in …

Cavin4 interacts with Bin1 to promote T-tubule formation and stability in developing skeletal muscle

HP Lo, YW Lim, Z Xiong, N Martel, C Ferguson… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - rupress.org
The cavin proteins are essential for caveola biogenesis and function. Here, we identify a role
for the muscle-specific component, Cavin4, in skeletal muscle T-tubule development by …

Zebrafish as a model of kidney disease

EE Morales, RA Wingert - Kidney Development and Disease, 2017 - Springer
Animal models have been an invaluable means to advance biomedical research as they
provide experimental avenues for cellular and molecular investigations of disease …

Neuronal sFlt1 and Vegfaa determine venous sprouting and spinal cord vascularization

R Wild, A Klems, M Takamiya, Y Hayashi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Formation of organ-specific vasculatures requires cross-talk between developing tissue and
specialized endothelial cells. Here we show how developing zebrafish spinal cord neurons …