PUBLICATION
Immunology and zebrafish: Spawning new models of human disease
- Authors
- Meeker, N.D., and Trede, N.S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-080226-8
- Date
- 2008
- Source
- Developmental and comparative immunology 32(7): 745-757 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Trede, Nick
- Keywords
- Animal models, Infection, Immunodeficiency, Leukemia, Adaptive immunity, Innate immunity, Forward genetic screen
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Disease
- Disease Models, Animal*
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate/immunology
- Zebrafish/immunology*
- PubMed
- 18222541 Full text @ Dev. Comp. Immunol.
Citation
Meeker, N.D., and Trede, N.S. (2008) Immunology and zebrafish: Spawning new models of human disease. Developmental and comparative immunology. 32(7):745-757.
Abstract
The zebrafish has emerged as a powerful new vertebrate model of human disease. Initially prominent in developmental biology, the zebrafish has now been adopted into varied fields of study including immunology. In this review, we describe the characteristics of the zebrafish, which make it a versatile model, including a description of its immune system with its remarkable similarities to its mammalian counterparts. We review the zebrafish disease models of innate and adaptive immunity. Models of immune system malignancies are discussed that are either based on oncogene over-expression or on our own forward-genetic screen that was designed to identify new models of immune dysregulation.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping