Advanced echocardiography in adult zebrafish reveals delayed recovery of heart function after myocardial cryoinjury.

Translucent zebrafish larvae represent an established model to analyze genetics of cardiac development and human cardiac disease. More recently adult zebrafish are utilized to evaluate mechanisms of cardiac regeneration and by benefiting from recent genome editing technologies, including TALEN and C...

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Main Authors: Selina J Hein, Lorenz H Lehmann, Mandy Kossack, Lonny Juergensen, Dieter Fuchs, Hugo A Katus, David Hassel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4390243?pdf=render