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Annual Review of Vision Science

Volume 1, 2015

Zebrafish Models of Retinal Disease

Abstract

Visual defects affect a large proportion of humanity, have a significant negative impact on quality of life, and cause significant economic burden. The wide variety of visual disorders and the large number of gene mutations responsible require a flexible animal model system to carry out research for possible causes and cures for the blinding conditions. With eyes similar to humans in structure and function, zebrafish are an important vertebrate model organism that is being used to study genetic and environmental eye diseases, including myopia, glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa, ciliopathies, albinism, and diabetes. This review details the use of zebrafish in modeling human ocular diseases.

Keyword(s): animal model, eye, genome editing, mutant, transgenic
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Zebrafish Models of Retinal Disease
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