Sentences with phrase «zebrafish behavior»

However, keeping track of zebrafish behavior can be a challenge because of their fast and often erratic movement.

Finally, in [16], the robotic fish is utilized as a tool to analyze the effect of ethanol administration on zebrafish behavior.

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Using gene therapy to insert the gene, they expressed the synthetic gene in adult mice or in zebrafish embryos, and witnessed remote activation of neurons the presence of a magnetic field through the altered behavior of the animals.

The researchers will use their zebrafish model system to search for new therapeutics that could block drug - seeking behavior.

Conditioned zebrafish treated with naloxone, a drug that blocks the μ - opioid receptor, as well as dopamine - or glutamate - blockers reduced their drug - seeking behavior during the experiments.

The researchers placed the robot in a shared tank with shoals of live zebrafish, aiming to determine if the fish would perceive the robot as a predator, and whether visual cues from the robot could be used to modulate the fishes» social behavior and activity.

By observing the zebrafish brain activity upon presentation of the red LED they were able to visualize the process of remembering the learned avoidance behavior.

Denis Duboule's team, at the UNIGE and the EPFL, Switzerland, compared the structure and behavior of these gene clusters in embryos from mice and zebrafish.

Using gene therapy to insert the gene, they expressed the synthetic gene in adult mice or in zebrafish embryos, and witnessed remote activation of neurons in the presence of a magnetic field through the altered behavior of the animals.

We expect the following predictions to be met: (i) a free - swimming robot whose design and movement are inspired by a zebrafish will not elicit fear response in zebrafish; (ii) the subjects will change their social interaction in the presence of the robotic fish; and (iii) the speed of the robotic fish will differentially modulate fish collective behavior.

Specifically, in [12], it is shown that zebrafish responds differentially to variation in aspect ratio and color in the robotic fish; in [13], it is demonstrated that zebrafish shoals prefer such a robotic fish to an empty compartment; in [14], it is demonstrated that an interactive robot, whose tail - beat frequency responds to fish position, is able to induce preference among single organisms; and in [17], it is shown that the robotic fish is able to simultaneously attract shoals of zebrafish while repelling shoals of mosquitofish that would otherwise display aggressive behavior.

Laura Paye, Westfield, Massachusetts; University of Maine Honors College; research site: University of Maine; mentor: Rebecca Van Beneden, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and marine sciences, University of Maine; research topic: The effect of embryonic arsenic exposure on the sensorimotor behavior of zebrafish (Danio rerio).

Mirror Movement - Like Defects in Startle Behavior of Zebrafish dcc Mutants Are Caused by Aberrant Midline Guidance of Identified Descending Hindbrain Neurons.

With the first spontaneous movements taking place as early as 17 hours post-fertilization and swimming behavior occuring after 27 hours, zebrafish embryos prove to be a good model for the study of development of locomotor activity.

Being social animals, zebrafish are an interesting model for studying psychiatric disorders that affect social behavior, such as schizophrenia and autism.

In zebrafish studies, the light - sensitive receptor protein halorhodopsin (NpHR) has successfully been used to inhibit swimming behavior in zebrafish larvae (Arrenberg, et al., 2009).

From these tracks detailed analysis of freezing behavior and erratic movements was performed to assess fear behavior in the zebrafish.

Neural Circuits Underlying Visually Evoked Escapes in Larval Zebrafish DOI 10.1016, Neuron 21.12.2015 Escape behaviors deliver organisms away from imminent catastrophe.

One postdoc in Peterson's lab, for example, is using zebrafish to study opioid addiction, trying to identify genes that heighten drug - seeking behavior and thus could be useful targets for helping human addicts.