News tagged with zebrafish
Zebrafish study suggests that vitamin B2 (riboflavin) is an antidote to cyanide poisoning
With the remains of a recent lottery winner having been exhumed for foul play related to cyanide poisoning, future winners might wonder what they can do to avoid the same fate. A new report in The FASEB Journal involving zebrafish ...
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Apr 30, 2013 |
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Completion of the zebrafish reference genome yields strong comparisons with the human genome
Researchers demonstrate today that 70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebrafish and that 84 per cent of genes known to be associated with human disease have a zebrafish counterpart. ...
Genetics
Apr 17, 2013 |
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Legal levels of atrazine alter neuroendocrine, reproductive genes in zebrafish
(Medical Xpress)—A Purdue University study found an agricultural herbicide alters reproductive and neuroendocrine genes during embryonic development in fish, a finding that will help establish a genetic ...
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Apr 03, 2013 |
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Researchers image most of vertebrae brain at single cell level (w/ video)
(Medical Xpress)—Misha Ahrens and Philipp Keller, researchers with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have succeeded in making a near real-time video of most of a zebrafish's brain showing individual neuron ...
Neuroscience
Mar 20, 2013 |
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Zebrafish reveals central regulator for development of brain histamine system
Research has shown that mutations in the psen1 gene are common in the familial forms of Alzheimer's disease, and the Presenilin-1 protein that the gene encodes is known to be involved in the cleavage of the amyloid precursor ...
Neuroscience
Feb 05, 2013 |
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Study shows that human hearts generate new cells after birth
Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have found, for the first time that young humans (infants, children and adolescents) are capable of generating new heart muscle cells. These findings refute the long-held belief that ...
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Jan 10, 2013 |
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See-through 'MitoFish' opens a new window on brain diseases
German scientists have demonstrated a new way to investigate mechanisms at work in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, which also could prove useful in the search for effective drugs. For new ...
Neuroscience
Dec 05, 2012 |
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Probing sleep's drowsy mystery: Researchers stay up nights trying to understand rhythms, effects
It is one of the ironies of sleep research that scientists stay up all night to do it.
Health
Nov 05, 2012 |
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Individual gene differences can be tested in zebrafish
The zebrafish is a potential tool for testing one class of unique individual genetic differences found in humans, and may yield information helpful for the emerging field of personalized medicine, according to a team led ...
Genetics
Oct 25, 2012 |
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Scientists identify mammal model of bladder regeneration
While it is well known that starfish, zebrafish and salamanders can re-grow damaged limbs, scientists understand very little about the regenerative capabilities of mammals. Now, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical ...
Medical research
Oct 12, 2012 |
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The new skinny on leptin
(Medical Xpress)—Leptin—commonly dubbed the "fat hormone"—does more than tell the brain when to eat. A new study by researchers at The University of Akron and Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) shows that leptin ...
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Sep 26, 2012 |
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Wnt signaling pathway plays key role in adult nerve cell generation: study
Researchers from the University of Utah have gained new insight into the regulation of adult nerve cell generation in the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that regulates many aspects of behavior, mood, and metabolism. ...
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Sep 10, 2012 |
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Zebra fish point the way towards new therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Leuven scientists (VIB/KU Leuven) are using zebrafish as a model in their search for genes that play a role in the mechanism of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). As a result, they have identified a molecule that could ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 27, 2012 |
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Humble zebrafish helping researchers find new treatments for obesity and osteoporosis
The fate of people suffering with obesity or osteoporosis could lie in the hands of Deakin University researchers who are looking into the way fat and bone cells develop, with the assistance of the humble ...
Medical research
Aug 08, 2012 |
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Zebrafish help researchers identify promising drugs
(Medical Xpress) -- “Jaws” it isn’t, but the tiny striped zebrafish is helping Tulane University scientists take a big bite out of a tough question — what drugs might be beneficial for ...
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Jul 25, 2012 |
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Zebrafish
The zebrafish, also known as Danio rerio, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae). It is a popular aquarium fish, frequently sold under the trade name zebra danio, and is an important vertebrate model organism in scientific research.
For more information about Zebrafish, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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