| Literature DB >> 20580116 |
Edor Kabashi1, Nathalie Champagne, Edna Brustein, Pierre Drapeau.
Abstract
The advantage of zebrafish as a model to study human pathologies lies in the ease of manipulating gene expression in vivo. Here we focus on recent progress in our understanding of motor neuron diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders and discuss how novel technologies will permit further disease models to be developed. Together these advances set the stage for this simple functional model, with particular advantages for transgenesis, multigenic analyses and chemical biology, to become uniquely suited for advancing the functional genomics of neurological and possibly psychiatric diseases - from understanding the genetics and cell biology of degenerative and developmental disorders to the discovery of therapeutics. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20580116 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2010.05.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Genet ISSN: 0168-9525 Impact factor: 11.639