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 …

A high-resolution mRNA expression time course of embryonic development in zebrafish

RJ White, JE Collins, IM Sealy, N Wali, CM Dooley… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
We have produced an mRNA expression time course of zebrafish development across 18
time points from 1 cell to 5 days post-fertilisation sampling individual and pools of embryos …

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 …

Zebrafish embryos as an alternative to animal experiments—A commentary on the definition of the onset of protected life stages in animal welfare regulations

U Strähle, S Scholz, R Geisler, P Greiner… - Reproductive …, 2012 - Elsevier
Worldwide, the zebrafish has become a popular model for biomedical research and (eco)
toxicology. Particularly the use of embryos is receiving increasing attention, since they are …

Zebrafish: an emerging real-time model system to study Alzheimer's disease and neurospecific drug discovery

S Saleem, RR Kannan - Cell death discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is emerging as an increasingly successful model for translational
research on human neurological disorders. In this review, we appraise the high degree of …

Animal models of human disease: zebrafish swim into view

GJ Lieschke, PD Currie - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007 - nature.com
Despite the pre-eminence of the mouse in modelling human disease, several aspects of
murine biology limit its routine use in large-scale genetic and therapeutic screening. Many …

Targeting virulence: a new paradigm for antimicrobial therapy

AE Clatworthy, E Pierson, DT Hung - Nature chemical biology, 2007 - nature.com
Clinically significant antibiotic resistance has evolved against virtually every antibiotic
deployed. Yet the development of new classes of antibiotics has lagged far behind our …

In vivo drug discovery in the zebrafish

LI Zon, RT Peterson - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2005 - nature.com
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 …

Zebrafish models of cardiac disease: From fortuitous mutants to precision medicine

JM González-Rosa - Circulation research, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite decades of research, most
heart pathologies have limited treatments, and often the only curative approach is heart …