The emerging use of zebrafish to model metabolic disease

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1080-1088

  Seth, Asha ^a   Stemple, Derek L ^a   Barroso, Inês ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FATTY LIVER; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MUTAGENESIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; MUTATION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84883885889     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.011346     Document Type: Review

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