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Zebrafish: A Model Organism for Human Health and Disease by Jyotshna Kanungo is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Zebrafish are an attractive vertebrate model used in drug discovery. Due to their small size, external development, and transparency, zebrafish embryos are compatible with multiwell plates for high-throughput screening. Based on the availability of zebrafish genome sequences, the ease of creating transgenic and genetic mutants, and the conservation of signal transduction pathways, a variety of human diseases have been modeled using zebrafish. -Moreover, biological pathways, such as physiological and molecular events, which control the development and function of most organ systems, including the cardiovascular, skeletal, nervous, digestive, and visual systems of zebrafish, are similar to those in mammals. The zebrafish reference genome published in 2013 has further accelerated the use of zebrafish in human disease modeling. -Over the last two decades, zebrafish have become popular in pharmaceutical and toxicological research. Consequently, several drugs used to treat human diseases (including tuberculosis, neuronal, and auditory disorders, as well as several types of cancer) have been identified from zebrafish screens. Such advances in this area of research have established zebrafi

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Author
Jyotshna Kanungo
Publisher
MDPI
Published
2025
Language
EN
ISBN
9783725842018
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Microbiology, Stem

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