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Social behavioral phenotyping of the zebrafish casper mutant following embryonic alcohol exposure.
Behavioural brain research - 1 Jan 2019
Fernandes Yohaan, Rampersad Mindy, Eberhart Johann K
Abstract excerpt
The term Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) describes all the deleterious consequences of prenatal alcohol exposure. Impaired social behavior is a common symptom of FASD. The zebrafish has emerged as a powerful model organism with which to examine the effects of embryonic alcohol exposure on social behavior due to an innate strong behavior, called shoaling. The relative transparency of the embryo also makes...
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