Genetic zebrafish models of neurodegenerative diseases

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-65

  Bandmann, Oliver ^a   Burton, Edward A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Morpholino; Parkin; Pink1; SOD1; Tau; Transgenic; Zebrafish; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

ALSIN; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; DJ 1 PROTEIN; HUNTINGTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PARKIN; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEIN ALS2; PROTEIN ELP3; PROTEIN PARK6; PROTEIN SPG4; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; CYTOPLASM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MODEL; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NONHUMAN; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TAUOPATHY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 77955845842     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2010.05.017     Document Type: Review

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