Animal models of human disease
By: edited by Karen T. Chang, Kyung-Tai Min
Series: Progress in molecular biology and translational science -- v. 100; Progress in molecular biology and translational science -- v. 100.
Publisher: Elsevier/AP
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780123848789
Subjects: Animal Disease Models; Animal models; Diseases; Animal models in research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modeling human prostate cancer in genetically engineered mice / Fen Wang; title: Modeling cancers in Drosophila / Ce dric Polesello ... [et al.]; title: Probing human cardiovascular congenital disease using transgenetic mouse models / Paige Snider, Simon J. Conway; title: Dissection of cardiovascular development and disease pathways in zebrafish / Joanne Chan, John D. Mably; title: Drosophila models of cardiac disease / Nicole Piazza, R.J. Wessells; title: Animal models of retinal disease / Erica L. Fletcher ... [et al.]; title: Toward a better understanding of human eye disease: insights from the zebrafish, Danio rerio / Jonathan Bibliowicz, Rachel K. Tittle, Jeffrey M. Gross; title: 800 facets of retinal degeneration / T. Cook ... [et al.]; title: Animal models of glycogen storage disorders / H. Orhan Akman Adithya Raghavan, William J. Craigen; title: Modeling disorders of fatty acid metabolism in the mouse / Eric S. Goetzman; title: Genetic mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases / Alzbeta Trancikova, David Ramonet, Darren J. Moore; title: Demise of the flies: why Drosophila models still matter / Mathieu F. Bakhoum, George R. Jackson; title: Watching worms whither: modeling neurodegeneration in C. elegans / Benjamin Wolozin ... [et al.].