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.
«I can't tell you what a psychotic zebrafish looks like but I can tell you what
a zebrafish treated with an antipsychotic looks like,» says Peterson.
Not exact matches
They found that the TAML -
treated BPA water did not show estrogen activity or cause abnormalities in yeast and developing
zebrafish embryos.
Human tumor cells (red) growing in a
zebrafish embryo may help doctors choose how to
treat cancer patients.
In addition, the creation of a
zebrafish model for CHD2 encephalopathy may facilitate the discovery of new drugs that can
treat patients with this form of epilepsy.
In tests on
zebrafish, flies and mice, scientists found that
treating the disease with purified quercetin — which targets beta - catenin — led to a significant improvement in the health of nerve and muscle cells.
The next steps for the research group are to use what they have learned from this
zebrafish model of gut inflammation to design better probiotics to
treat intestinal inflammation.
«New clues to
treat Alagille Syndrome from
zebrafish: How Jagged genes establish liver duct cell lineage.»
To differentiate the two possibilities, the researchers dropped a dose of the anti-angiogenesis drugs semaxinib and pazopanib — already used to
treat cancer — into the
zebrafish's water.
In the research, Rieger
treated the
zebrafish with pharmacological agents that reduce MMP - 13 activity, with the result that skin defects were improved and chemotherapy - induced nerve damage was reversed.
«IKKs are one of the most heavily sought after drug targets today, because pharmaceutical companies want safe and effective medications to
treat the pain of arthritis, now that the safety of COX - 2 inhibitors, like Celebrex and Vioxx, have been called into question,» says Salk researcher Vinay Tergaonkar who was involved in the
zebrafish study.
A new method of growing arteries could lead to a «biological bypass» — or a non-invasive way to
treat coronary artery disease, researchers working with mice and
zebrafish report with their colleagues in the April issue of Journal of Clinical Investigation.