Zebrafish as an animal model for biomedical research

TY Choi, TI Choi, YR Lee, SK Choe… - Experimental & Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Zebrafish have several advantages compared to other vertebrate models used in modeling
human diseases, particularly for large-scale genetic mutant and therapeutic compound …

Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays

P Nowak-Sliwinska, K Alitalo, E Allen, A Anisimov… - Angiogenesis, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Microglia phagocytose myelin sheaths to modify developmental myelination

AN Hughes, B Appel - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
During development, oligodendrocytes contact and wrap neuronal axons with myelin.
Similarly to neurons and synapses, excess myelin sheaths are produced and selectively …

A molecular atlas of cell types and zonation in the brain vasculature

M Vanlandewijck, L He, MA Mäe, J Andrae, K Ando… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Cerebrovascular disease is the third most common cause of death in developed countries,
but our understanding of the cells that compose the cerebral vasculature is limited. Here …

Simultaneous single-cell profiling of lineages and cell types in the vertebrate brain

B Raj, DE Wagner, A McKenna, S Pandey… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The lineage relationships among the hundreds of cell types generated during development
are difficult to reconstruct. A recent method, GESTALT, used CRISPR–Cas9 barcode editing …

Changes in regeneration-responsive enhancers shape regenerative capacities in vertebrates

W Wang, CK Hu, A Zeng, D Alegre, D Hu, K Gotting… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The ability to regenerate tissues lost to damage or disease is widely but
nonuniformly distributed in vertebrates. Some animals such as teleost fishes can regenerate …

A robotic multidimensional directed evolution approach applied to fluorescent voltage reporters

KD Piatkevich, EE Jung, C Straub, C Linghu… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
We developed a new way to engineer complex proteins toward multidimensional
specifications using a simple, yet scalable, directed evolution strategy. By robotically picking …

Role of PFKFB3-driven glycolysis in vessel sprouting

K De Bock, M Georgiadou, S Schoors, A Kuchnio… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Vessel sprouting by migrating tip and proliferating stalk endothelial cells (ECs) is controlled
by genetic signals (such as Notch), but it is unknown whether metabolism also regulates this …

Artemisinins target GABAA receptor signaling and impair α cell identity

J Li, T Casteels, T Frogne, C Ingvorsen, C Honore… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Type 1 diabetes is characterized by the destruction of pancreatic β cells, and generating
new insulin-producing cells from other cell types is a major aim of regenerative medicine …

Mechanosensation of tight junctions depends on ZO-1 phase separation and flow

C Schwayer, S Shamipour, K Pranjic-Ferscha… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Cell-cell junctions respond to mechanical forces by changing their organization and
function. To gain insight into the mechanochemical basis underlying junction …