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Using the zebrafish photomotor response for psychotropic drug screening.
Methods in cell biology - 1 Jan 2011
Kokel David, Peterson Randall T
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Because psychotropic drugs affect behavior, we can use changes in behavior to discover psychotropic drugs. The original prototypes of most neuroactive medicines were discovered in humans, rodents and other model organisms. Most of these discoveries were made by chance, but the process of behavior based drug discovery can be made more systematic and efficient. Fully automated platforms for analyzing the behavior...
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