The formation of new blood vessels, or angiogenesis, is a complex process that plays
important roles in growth and development, tissue and organ regeneration, as well as …

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 …

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) has been a prominent model vertebrate in a variety of biological
disciplines. Substantial information gathered from developmental and genetic research …

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 …

Chemical mutagenesis has been the workhorse of traditional genetics, but it has not been
possible to determine underlying rates or distributions of mutations from phenotypic screens …

For decades immunologists have relied heavily on the mouse model for their experimental
designs. With the realization of the important role innate immunity plays in orchestrating …

Infection of vertebrate hosts with pathogenic Mycobacteria, the agents of tuberculosis,
produces granulomas, highly organized structures containing differentiated macrophages …

TP53 is the most frequently mutated tumor suppressor gene in human cancer, with nearly
50% of all tumors exhibiting a loss-of-function mutation. To further elucidate the genetic …

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has been extensively used in biomedical research as a model to
study vertebrate development and hematopoiesis and recently, it has been adopted into …

When looking for a book on fish toxicology, you might find one that discusses the
biochemical and molecular aspects, or one that focuses aquatic toxicology in general. You …