The zebrafish as a model to study intestinal inflammation

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 82-92

  Brugman, Sylvia ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Enterocolitis; Immunity; Inflammation; Intestines; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN 2; MESALAZINE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDODERM; ENTERITIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE FLORA; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANETH CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; MAMMAL; MICROFLORA; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EDITING; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MAMMALS; MICROBIOTA; PHYSIOLOGY, COMPARATIVE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84959386541     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: 18790089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2016.02.020     Document Type: Article

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