Zebrafish muscular disease models towards drug discovery

Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 507-513

  Hirata, Hiromi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Locomotion; Muscle; Mutant; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CELL TYPE; GENE MUTATION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISORDER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 67649101749     PISSN: 17460441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17460440902835483     Document Type: Review

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