Zebrafish as a model to study live mucus physiology

Zebrafish as a model to study live mucus physiology

Dysfunctional mucus barriers can result in important pulmonary and gastrointestinal conditions, but model systems to study the underlying causes are largely missing. We identified and characterized five mucin homologues in zebrafish, and demonstrated a strategy for fluorescence labeling of one selec...

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Main Authors: Jevtov, Irena (Contributor), Samuelsson, Tore (Author), Yao, Grace (Contributor), Amsterdam, Adam (Contributor), Ribbeck, Katharina (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2014-12-31T20:06:59Z.
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