The rights and wrongs of zebrafish: Behavioral phenotyping of zebrafish
Editors: Kalueff, Allan V. (Ed.)
Free Preview- Outlines the use of zebrafish to study the pathological mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders
- Features contributions by leading international scholars
- Explores how zebrafish models can be used to target a wide range of human brain disorders and aberrant phenotypes
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- About this book
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Animal models and tests have become increasingly important for biomedical research, enabling a better understanding of pathogenic pathways involved in various human disorders. Over the last decades, zebrafish (Danio rerio) have become a very popular model organism in biomedical research. Recently, this fish has entered the waters of neuroscience and biological psychiatry, quickly becoming an indispensable model species in this field. With a high genetic homology to humans (~75% based on coding regions), it is not surprising that humans and fish are very similar physiologically (and behaviorally).
Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that zebrafish can be an excellent model of human neuropsychiatric disorders. While some classical psychiatrists may not too easily be persuaded by this generalization, the current book “The rights and wrongs of zebrafish: principles of behavioral phenotyping and CNS disease modeling” explains, in a domain-by-domain manner, how exactly zebrafish models can be used to target a wide range of human brain disorders and aberrant phenotypes.
The contributors to this book are leading international scholars whose work spearheads innovative zebrafish neuroscience research around the world. Written by top experts in the field, this book makes for a useful, balanced and up-to-date reading that outlines the use of zebrafish to study the pathological mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders. - About the authors
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Allan V. Kalueff is Professor of Translational Biomedicne at St. Petersburg State University.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Mutagenesis and Transgenesis in Zebrafish
Pages 1-31
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Developing Zebrafish Depression-Related Models
Pages 33-43
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Zebrafish Models of Anxiety-Like Behaviors
Pages 45-72
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Assessing Cognitive Phenotypes in Zebrafish
Pages 73-93
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Social Phenotypes in Zebrafish
Pages 95-130
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The rights and wrongs of zebrafish: Behavioral phenotyping of zebrafish
- Editors
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- Allan V. Kalueff
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-33774-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-33774-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-33773-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-81598-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 327
- Number of Illustrations
- 8 b/w illustrations, 69 illustrations in colour
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