APPLICATION OF A IMAGEJ-BASED METHOD TO MEASURE BLOOD FLOW IN ADULT ZEBRAFISH AND ITS APPLICATIONS FOR TOXICOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS

Application of a ImageJ-Based Method to Measure Blood Flow in Adult Zebrafish and Its Applications for Toxicological and Pharmacological Assessments

Blood flow is an important physiological endpoint to measure cardiovascular performance in animals.Because of their innate transparent bodies, zebrafish is an excellent animal model for assessing in vivo cardiovascular performance.Previously, various helpful methods for measuring blood flow in zebrafish larvae were discovered and developed.However,

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Protocol for Measuring Compulsive-like Feeding Behavior in Mice

Obesity is an important health problem with a strong environmental component that is acquiring pandemic proportion.The high availability of caloric dense foods promotes overeating potentially causing obesity.Animal models are key to validate novel therapeutic strategies, but researchers must carefully select the appropriate model to draw the right

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Crisis: a Return to Rationality

This paper analyses the causes of economic crisis trying to reconcile the theory of "animal spirits" with the essential oils money supply expansion.It also aims to show the limits of the two opposing theories: both of the Keynesian and the Austrian ones, and to investigate the economic crisis in Greece, focusing on the Oven Door Lock causes that tr

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