Zebrafish disease models in drug discovery: from preclinical modelling to clinical trials

EE Patton, LI Zon, DM Langenau - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Numerous drug treatments that have recently entered the clinic or clinical trials have their
genesis in zebrafish. Zebrafish are well established for their contribution to developmental …

The RASopathies: from pathogenetics to therapeutics

KE Hebron, ER Hernandez… - Disease models & …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
The RASopathies are a group of disorders caused by a germline mutation in one of the
genes encoding a component of the RAS/MAPK pathway. These disorders, including …

Genetics of congenital heart disease

K Williams, J Carson, C Lo - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common birth defects. Studies in animal
models and humans have indicated a genetic etiology for CHD. About 400 genes have been …

The RASopathy family: consequences of germline activation of the RAS/MAPK pathway

M Tajan, R Paccoud, S Branka, T Edouard… - Endocrine …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Noonan syndrome [NS; Mendelian Inheritance in Men (MIM)# 163950] and related
syndromes [Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines (formerly called LEOPARD …

The spatiotemporal limits of developmental Erk signaling

HE Johnson, Y Goyal, NL Pannucci, T Schüpbach… - Developmental cell, 2017 - cell.com
Animal development is characterized by signaling events that occur at precise locations and
times within the embryo, but determining when and where such precision is needed for …

Endogenous bioelectric signaling networks: exploiting voltage gradients for control of growth and form

M Levin, G Pezzulo… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Living systems exhibit remarkable abilities to self-assemble, regenerate, and remodel
complex shapes. How cellular networks construct and repair specific anatomical outcomes …

Single-nucleotide variants within heart enhancers increase binding affinity and disrupt heart development

GA Jindal, AT Bantle, JJ Solvason, JL Grudzien… - Developmental Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Transcriptional enhancers direct precise gene expression patterns during development and
harbor the majority of variants associated with phenotypic diversity, evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic profiling of primary histiocytic sarcoma reveals two molecular subgroups

C Egan, A Nicolae, J Lack, HJ Chung… - …, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Histiocytic sarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm that may occur de novo or in the context of
a previous hematologic malignancy or mediastinal germ cell tumor. Here, we performed …

[HTML][HTML] MAPK kinase signalling dynamics regulate cell fate decisions and drug resistance

N Rauch, OS Rukhlenko, W Kolch… - Current opinion in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Distinct cell fates result from different spatiotemporal MAPK dynamics.•Versatile
MAPK dynamics include adaptive/sustained activity, switches and oscillations.•MAPK …

Gap junctional signaling in pattern regulation: physiological network connectivity instructs growth and form

J Mathews, M Levin - Developmental neurobiology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Gap junctions (GJs) are aqueous channels that allow cells to communicate via physiological
signals directly. The role of gap junctional connectivity in determining single‐cell functions …