Zebrafish as an immunological model system

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1469-1478

  Yoder, Jeffrey A ^a,b,c   Nielsen, Michael E ^d   Amemiya, Chris T ^e   Litman, Gary W ^b,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Dept of Veterinary Microbiology   (Denmark)

^e BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental immunology; Mutation screens; Novel immune type genes; Transgenesis; Zebrafish genome project

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR IMMUNITY; FISH DISEASE; FISH GENETICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME; MODEL; MUTATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENICS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENES; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036861294     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(02)00029-1     Document Type: Review

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