Infection, Inflammation and Healing in Zebrafish: Intestinal Inflammation

Current Pathobiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 147-153

  Marjoram, Lindsay ^a   Bagnat, Michel ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflammatory bowel disease; Intestinal inflammation; Zebrafish; Zebrafish disease models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978367514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2167485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40139-015-0079-x     Document Type: Review

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