PUBLICATION
Recent insights into vascular development from studies in zebrafish
- Authors
- Matsuoka, R.L., Stainier, D.Y.R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-180214-19
- Date
- 2018
- Source
- Current opinion in hematology 25(3): 204-211 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Matsuoka, Ryota, Stainier, Didier
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Cell Differentiation*
- Disease Models, Animal
- Endothelial Cells/metabolism*
- Endothelial Cells/pathology
- Humans
- Lymphangiogenesis
- Neovascularization, Physiologic*
- Transcription, Genetic*
- Vascular Malformations*/genetics
- Vascular Malformations*/metabolism
- Vascular Malformations*/pathology
- Zebrafish*/genetics
- Zebrafish*/metabolism
- PubMed
- 29438257 Full text @ Curr. Opin. Hematol.
Citation
Matsuoka, R.L., Stainier, D.Y.R. (2018) Recent insights into vascular development from studies in zebrafish. Current opinion in hematology. 25(3):204-211.
Abstract
Purpose of review Zebrafish has provided a powerful platform to study vascular biology over the past 25 years, owing to their distinct advantages for imaging and genetic manipulation. In this review, we summarize recent progress in vascular biology with particular emphasis on vascular development in zebrafish.
Recent findings The advent of transcription activator-like effector nuclease and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 genome-editing technologies has dramatically facilitated reverse genetic approaches in zebrafish, as in other models. Here, we highlight recent studies on vascular development in zebrafish which mainly employed forward or reverse genetics combined with high-resolution imaging. These studies have advanced our understanding of diverse areas in vascular biology, including transcriptional regulation of endothelial cell differentiation, endothelial cell signaling during angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, vascular bed-specific developmental mechanisms, and perivascular cell recruitment.
Summary The unique attributes of the zebrafish model have allowed critical cellular and molecular insights into fundamental mechanisms of vascular development. Knowledge acquired through recent zebrafish work further advances our understanding of basic mechanisms underlying vascular morphogenesis, maintenance, and homeostasis. Ultimately, insights provided by the zebrafish model will help to understand the genetic, cellular, and molecular underpinnings of human vascular malformations and diseases.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping