Zebrafish Models for Development and Disease 4.0
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular and Translational Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 25323
Special Issue Editor
Interests: zebrafish; fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; gastrulation; congenital heart defects; eye defects; cadherin; tight junction; adherens junction
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Dear Colleagues,
The zebrafish is an important model organism that is used to study normal development, genetic diseases and influences of environmental toxins. Advanced, cutting-edge technologies such as gene editing, next-generation DNA sequencing and transgenic techniques have produced experimental approaches in the zebrafish model that address mechanisms of development and vertebrate evolution. Increasingly, the zebrafish is being used to explore the neural structures that control behavior, which have applications in neurology, psychology and psychiatry. The zebrafish has advantages for neurobiology because its brain is simpler than that of mammals, but the structures, neurochemistry and behaviors have a high degree of conservation relative to other vertebrates. This call for papers invites contributions of original research and reviews for this Special Issue of Biomedicines entitled “Zebrafish Models in Development and Disease”. This Special Issue will explore the diverse capabilities of the zebrafish model that can be applied to biological and preclinical research.
Prof. Dr. James A. Marrs
Guest Editor
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