The zebrafish as a model for complex tissue regeneration

M Gemberling, TJ Bailey, DR Hyde, KD Poss - Trends in genetics, 2013 - cell.com
For centuries, philosophers and scientists have been fascinated by the principles and
implications of regeneration in lower vertebrate species. Two features have made zebrafish …

Model systems for regeneration: zebrafish

IJ Marques, E Lupi, N Mercader - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Tissue damage can resolve completely through healing and regeneration, or can produce
permanent scarring and loss of function. The response to tissue damage varies across …

Acute inflammation initiates the regenerative response in the adult zebrafish brain

N Kyritsis, C Kizil, S Zocher, V Kroehne, J Kaslin… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The zebrafish regenerates its brain after injury and hence is a useful model organism to
study the mechanisms enabling regenerative neurogenesis, which is poorly manifested in …

Radial glia in the zebrafish brain: Functional, structural, and physiological comparison with the mammalian glia

N Jurisch‐Yaksi, E Yaksi, C Kizil - Glia, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The neuroscience community has witnessed a tremendous expansion of glia research. Glial
cells are now on center stage with leading roles in the development, maturation, and …

Effects of inflammation on stem cells: together they strive?

C Kizil, N Kyritsis, M Brand - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Inflammation entails a complex set of defense mechanisms acting in concert to restore the
homeostatic balance in organisms after damage or pathogen invasion. This immune …

Two phenotypically and functionally distinct microglial populations in adult zebrafish

S Wu, LTM Nguyen, H Pan, S Hassan, Y Dai, J Xu… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Microglia are the tissue-resident macrophages in the central nervous system and are
critically involved in immune defense, neural development and function, and …

IL4/STAT6 signaling activates neural stem cell proliferation and neurogenesis upon Amyloid-β42 aggregation in adult zebrafish brain

P Bhattarai, AK Thomas, MI Cosacak, C Papadimitriou… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Human brains are prone to neurodegeneration, given that endogenous neural
stem/progenitor cells (NSPCs) fail to support neurogenesis. To investigate the molecular …

Diversity and function of motile ciliated cell types within ependymal lineages of the zebrafish brain

PP D'Gama, T Qiu, MI Cosacak, D Rayamajhi, A Konac… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Motile cilia defects impair cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow and can cause brain and spine
disorders. The development of ciliated cells, their impact on CSF flow, and their function in …

Single-cell transcriptomics analyses of neural stem cell heterogeneity and contextual plasticity in a zebrafish brain model of amyloid toxicity

MI Cosacak, P Bhattarai, S Reinhardt, A Petzold… - Cell Reports, 2019 - cell.com
The neural stem cell (NSC) reservoir can be harnessed for stem cell-based regenerative
therapies. Zebrafish remarkably regenerate their brain by inducing NSC plasticity in a …

[HTML][HTML] Serotonergic modulation of zebrafish behavior: Towards a paradox

AM Herculano, C Maximino - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Due to the fish-specific genome duplication event (~ 320–350 mya), some genes which
code for serotonin proteins were duplicated in teleosts; this duplication event was preceded …