Introduction: in vivo cell biology in zebrafish.
Introduction: in vivo cell biology in zebrafish.
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简介:斑马鱼体内细胞生物学。
DOI:
10.1007/s00418-020-01931-4
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Scholpp S
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Scholpp S
Cell biology studies the structure and function of cells—the basic unit of life. Cell architecture, cell communication, cell cycle, and cell metabolism are among many exciting topics of this branch of biology. This special issue “In vivo cell biology in zebrafish” presented by Histochemistry and Cell Biology focuses on the zebrafish as a vital model organism to study many functions of a cell. In the last decades, cell biology was focussing on culturing cells outside of a body. One major advantage of in vitro cell biology is the possibility to test the response of cells to drugs in order to understand how they function and how the organism would react. One of the most well-known advances using cell culture was probably the development of a vaccine against Polio. At its peak in the 1940s and early 1950s, Polio would paralyze or kill over half a million people worldwide every year. A way to test potential vaccines on a large scale was missing. Using one of the first immortal cell lines, the HeLa cells, a successful vaccine was introduced in the 1950s. Since then, researchers use these traditional two-dimensional monolayer cell cultures, because they are relatively cheap and simple to procure, enabling reliable and efficient cellular assays for high-throughput screening. However, a significant drawback of these cell culture systems is their failure to capture cellular behaviour within the complexity of an organ system. These simple in vitro models do not account for interactions between different cell types and extracellular matrix in a three-dimensional fashion during development and tissue homeostasis. This may also be reflected in slow and costly drug discovery processes. Currently, many drugs fail in clinical trials due to a lack of understanding of cell behaviour in a complex environment leading to a lack of efficacy or failure due to safety issues. Thus, one of the most promising areas expected to improve our understanding of cell biology—and thus the success rates in drug development—is the availability of model organisms that better recapitulate in vivo cell biology. The zebrafish, Danio rerio, is a fast expanding and precious model system for studying many aspects of cell biology within an intact vertebrate organism. Since its introduction as a modern experimental model organism in the early 1980s, many new tools have been developed for imaging and genetic manipulation. Given the high genomic similarities between zebrafish and other vertebrates, many of the critical discoveries in zebrafish are applicable to humans. Zebrafish provide multiple significant advantages over tissue culture models on one hand and mammalian vertebrate model organisms such as mice and rats on the other. Early development of zebrafish embryos is external, rapid, and visually accessible. Zebrafish produce several hundred eggs each week. This high number of offspring is advantageous for genetic mapping studies and large-scale screening experiments in vertebrates. Zebrafish can be raised and maintained in high-density aquarium systems requiring much less space and cost than the animal facilities necessary for mammals. Zebrafish larvae hatch two days after fertilization and begin actively feeding three days after. During these first five days, all major organ systems develop and begin functioning. Techniques including large-scale genome mutagenesis, gene mapping, transgenesis, protein overexpression, gene knockout, cell transplantation for chimeric embryo analysis, and chemical screens have further increased the power of this model organism.However, the main advantage of this model system is the accessibility of the organism during embryogenesis. Zebrafish embryos and …