Behavioral phenotyping in zebrafish: Comparison of three behavioral...

Behavior Research Methods;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The zebrafish has been popular in developmental biology...test a range of characteristics of adult zebrafish, including novelty-induced responses...quantification may be considered. The zebrafish is a diploid vertebrate with a good balance...

ZEBRAFISH CAN MEND BROKEN HEARTS

United Press International;  December 12, 2002 ;     594 words ...00-00-0000 Zebrafish can mend broken hearts BOSTON, Dec 12...International via COMTEX) -- Even if a zebrafish has nearly a quarter of its heart removed...genome than humans. We believe that zebrafish will help to revolutionize the field...

A three-year retrospective study of abdominal tumors in zebrafish...

The Biological Bulletin;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Zebrafish have become important aquatic laboratory animal models for biomedical research. Identification of the types of tumors that occur in zebrafish, and the strains of zebrafish in which they occur, may allow for tumorous animal models used in the study of carcinogenesis to be developed...

Genetic mutation tied to insomnia in zebrafish study

Columbia Daily Tribune;  October 19, 2007 ;     482 words ......humans, has successfully shown that common zebrafish can develop insomnia. The finding paves...Alto Medical Foundation's Web site. But zebrafish might provide some answers. Because they...internal functioning. And as vertebrates, zebrafish are more similar to humans than fruit...

Zebrafish Provide Key to Unlocking Secrets of Fanconi Anemia

Forward;  August 5, 2005 ;     521 words ...Levenstein, Mark I. Forward 08-05-2005 The zebrafish, an inch-long fish indigenous to the Ganges...doing this by studying the disease in zebrafish -- a staple of aquariums. "It looks like the zebrafish Fanconi system is virtually identical...

Zebrafish can mend broken hearts.

United Press International;  December 12, 2002 ;     592 words ......Press International via COMTEX) Even if a zebrafish has nearly a quarter of its heart removed...complex genome than humans. We believe that zebrafish will help to revolutionize the field, Keating said. We think it's likely that zebrafish can regenerate all organs, but that has...

Exit the mouse, enter the zebrafish in fight against cancer.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  March 10, 2003 ;     166 words ......the animal preferred by researchers. The zebrafish has been described as a perfect little...Fishworks and has 750 fish tanks full of zebrafish. The match between the genetic makeup of zebrafish and humans is 96 per cent. The fish also...

A fish's solution to broken hearts. (Biology).(ability of zebrafish to...

Science News;  January 11, 2003 ;     221 words ...A zebrafish can regrow its heart within 2 months...a study in the Dec. 13, 2002 Science. Zebrafish hearts can regenerate without scars...says Keating. Over the past decade, zebrafish have joined nematodes, fruit flies, and...

Children's Hospital Boston Researchers Regenerate Zebrafish Heart Muscle;...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  December 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ......AScribe Newswire) -- Experiments on zebrafish provide important clues that could eventually...Cardiology, showed for the first time that zebrafish can regenerate heart muscle within two...and molecular model for regeneration in zebrafish that could help direct further research...

Zebrafish May Point the Way to Mending a Broken Heart.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  December 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ......aquariums. The scientists showed that the zebrafish can regenerate its heart after injury...s Hospital in Boston report that the zebrafish is one vertebrate that is capable of...colleagues removed 20 percent of the heart in zebrafish, the fish had fully regenerated the excised...

Little fish, big medicine Laboratories turn to the zebrafish for faster,...

The Boston Globe;  December 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......thousands. At Phylonix, that creature is the zebrafish, a freshwater fish two inches long with glistening black-and-silver stripes. The zebrafish registers the effects of potential drugs...Square, Phylonix breeds thousands of zebrafish for its customers, feeding them a mixture...

Phylonix Issued Broad U.S. Patent for Screening Angiogenic Compounds Using...

PR Newswire;  May 10, 2006 ;     580 words ......of drug screening for angiogenesis in zebrafish. The patent, titled Methods of Screening...Phylonix for their pioneering work using zebrafish for drug screening. The patent, which...37 claims, includes a method of using zebrafish to screen drug candidates for activity...

At University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Water Institute, Zebrafish Reveal...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  June 17, 2002 ;     700+ words ......testing the reflexes of a three-week-old zebrafish embryo that has been exposed to alcohol...chart the effects of fetal alcohol in zebrafish embryos and identify which genes and...for all organisms, he says, findings in zebrafish could lead to cures for ills caused by...

U. Utah professor receives $240,000 to zebrafish

University Wire;  October 17, 2003 ;     444 words ......Chronicle) (U-WIRE) SALT LAKE CITY -- At Wal-Mart, a zebrafish costs 97 cents. An assistant professor of neurobiology...helping with the study and funding his research on zebrafish. "Zebrafish are vertebrates, thus they're close to humans. They...

Zebrafish aid in hearing study at U.

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  January 10, 2005 ;     449 words ......them -- may be found on the skin of zebrafish, according to a University of Utah researcher. "We use zebrafish as a model to study hair cell development...similar in fish as in humans. And with zebrafish, it's accessible, on the surface of...