PUBLICATION
Zebrafish cancer: the state of the art and the path forward
- Authors
- White, R., Rose, K., and Zon, L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-130904-30
- Date
- 2013
- Source
- Nature reviews. Cancer 3(9): 624-636 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- White, Richard M., Zon, Leonard I.
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal*
- Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
- Epigenesis, Genetic
- Gene Expression*
- Genomics
- Humans
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Neoplasms/drug therapy
- Neoplasms/genetics*
- Neoplasms/pathology
- Zebrafish*
- PubMed
- 23969693 Full text @ Nat. Rev. Cancer
Citation
White, R., Rose, K., and Zon, L. (2013) Zebrafish cancer: the state of the art and the path forward. Nature reviews. Cancer. 3(9):624-636.
Abstract
The zebrafish is a recent addition to animal models of human cancer, and studies using this model are rapidly contributing major insights. Zebrafish develop cancer spontaneously, after mutagen exposure and through transgenesis. The tumours resemble human cancers at the histological, gene expression and genomic levels. The ability to carry out in vivo imaging, chemical and genetic screens, and high-throughput transgenesis offers a unique opportunity to functionally characterize the cancer genome. Moreover, increasingly sophisticated modelling of combinations of genetic and epigenetic alterations will allow the zebrafish to complement what can be achieved in other models, such as mouse and human cell culture systems.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping