Zebrafish model systems for developmental neurobehavioral toxicology

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-23

  Bailey, Jordan ^a   Oliveri, Anthony ^a   Levin, Edward D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Development; Neurotoxicology; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; ACONITINE; ALCOHOL; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CADMIUM; CAFFEINE; CHLORPYRIFOS; DIAZEPAM; DIMPYLATE; DOPAMINE; FLUOXETINE; INSECTICIDE; METHYLMERCURY; METHYLPHENIDATE; MODAFINIL; NORADRENALIN; PENTETRAZOLE; PETROLEUM; SEROTONIN; SILVER; STRYCHNINE;

ADDICTION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANXIETY; APTITUDE TEST; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL TERATOLOGY; COGNITION; DRUG ABUSE; EMOTION; HABITUATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LARVA; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MATE CHOICE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STARTLE REFLEX; TERATOLOGY; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HUMANS; TERATOLOGY; TOXICITY TESTS; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84878438324     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.21027     Document Type: Review

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