Use of zebrafish in drug discovery toxicology

S Cassar, I Adatto, JL Freeman, JT Gamse… - Chemical research in …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Unpredicted human safety events in clinical trials for new drugs are costly in terms of human
health and money. The drug discovery industry attempts to minimize those events with …

Skeletal biology and disease modeling in zebrafish

K Dietrich, IAK Fiedler, A Kurzyukova… - Journal of Bone and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Zebrafish are teleosts (bony fish) that share with mammals a common ancestor belonging to
the phylum Osteichthyes, from which their endoskeletal systems have been inherited …

Zebrafish as the toxicant screening model: Transgenic and omics approaches

KP Lai, Z Gong, WKF Tse - Aquatic Toxicology, 2021 - Elsevier
The production of large amounts of synthetic industrial and biomedical compounds, together
with environmental pollutants, poses a risk to our ecosystem and induces negative effects on …

A guide to changing paradigms of glucocorticoid receptor function—a model system for genome regulation and physiology

S Vettorazzi, D Nalbantoglu, JCM Gebhardt… - The FEBS …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a bona fide ligand‐regulated transcription factor. Cloned
in the 80s, the GR has become one of the best‐studied and clinically most relevant members …

The molecular stress response

E Faught, N Aluru, MM Vijayan - Fish physiology, 2016 - Elsevier
1. Introduction 2. Molecular Regulation of the Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Interrenal (HPI) Axis
2.1. Hypothalamus 2.2. Pituitary 2.3. Head Kidney (Interrenal Tissue) 3. Genomic Cortisol …

Ambra1 at a glance

V Cianfanelli, D De Zio, S Di Bartolomeo… - Journal of cell …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
The activating molecule in Beclin-1-regulated autophagy (Ambra1), also known as
autophagy/Beclin-1 regulator 1, is a highly intrinsically disordered and vertebrate-conserved …

nr3c1 null mutant zebrafish are viable and reveal DNA-binding-independent activities of the glucocorticoid receptor

N Facchinello, T Skobo, G Meneghetti, E Colletti… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Glucocorticoids (GCs) play important roles in developmental and physiological processes
through the transcriptional activity of their cognate receptor (Gr). Using CRISPR/Cas9 …

Zebrafish models of major depressive disorders

TM Fonseka, XY Wen, JA Foster… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has emerged as a model species for translational research in
various neuroscience areas, including depressive disorders. Because of their physiological …

Fish as a model to assess chemical toxicity in bone

I Fernández, PJ Gavaia, V Laize, ML Cancela - Aquatic Toxicology, 2018 - Elsevier
Environmental toxicology has been expanding as growing concerns on the impact of
produced and released chemical compounds over the environment and human health are …

Glucocorticoids promote von hippel lindau degradation and hif-1α stabilization

A Vettori, D Greenald, GK Wilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Glucocorticoid (GC) and hypoxic transcriptional responses play a central role in tissue
homeostasis and regulate the cellular response to stress and inflammation, highlighting the …