zebrafish
a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.
Origin of zebrafish
1- Also called zebra danio .
Words Nearby zebrafish
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How to use zebrafish in a sentence
It turned out that a population of glia resides in the hearts of zebrafish.
Glial cells may take on big jobs in unexpected parts of the body | Laura Sanders | June 2, 2022 | Science NewsThat’s also the spot that these glia first appear early in zebrafish development.
Glial cells may take on big jobs in unexpected parts of the body | Laura Sanders | June 2, 2022 | Science NewsThat picture of the zebrafish brain illustrates the simultaneous creation of new synaptic connections between some neurons, and receding connections between others.
Frankland’s research at the hospital has focused on the kind of forgetting that takes place in the hippocampus when new learning takes place—the corresponding gain and loss of neuronal connections that the zebrafish brain showed.
zebrafish are particularly fitting models for neuroscience research.
New Research: Memories May Be Stored in the Connections Between Brain Cells | Don Arnold | January 13, 2022 | Singularity Hub
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