Sentences with phrase «exposed zebrafish»

To investigate, Peterson's team exposed zebrafish embryos to thousands of drugs and recorded how each affected their reaction to a flash of light or a slight poke (Nature Chemical Biology, DOI: 10.1038 / nchembio.307).

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Testing the titanium sub-oxides on zebrafish (the aquatic cousin of lab rats) showed it to be toxic when ingested; the toxicity was significant in tissue not exposed to sunlight.

Cocaine distribution in five - day - old zebrafish larvae exposed to 50 µM cocaine for eight hours.

First, the researchers developed a model of Parkinson's in zebrafish — the first such animal model of the disease — and exposed them to ziram so that they lost dopamine.

More than 200 genes in the germ - free zebrafish showed levels of activity different than those in their bacteria - exposed cousins.

Now OIST researchers in the Developmental Neurobiology Unit have exposed a similar syndrome in zebrafish, which are an excellent model for studying human diseases.

Using zebrafish as a model system, the researchers exposed the fish embryos to seven different types of TAML activators.

Rieger conducted her research in zebrafish exposed to paclitaxel, a chemotherapeutic agent used for ovarian, breast, lung, pancreatic and other cancers.

In particular we are interested to unravel the mechanisms that ensure the maintenance of the apical membrane when exposed to physical stress, e. g. during morphogenesis of epithelial tissues, or when exposed to light stress in photoreceptor cells, using Drosophila and zebrafish as model organisms.

She saw that cells of older zebrafish embryos didn't glow much when they were exposed to water the December 2014 and June 2015 stormwater, meaning the cells weren't very active.

Zebrafish larvae exposed to runoff from a June 2014 storm developed one - third fewer hair cells in their head and trunk.