Assessment of Replicability and Efforts to Refine an Operant Conditioning Procedure for Larval Zebrafish

Overview

Journal Animals (Basel)

Date 2025 Jan 8

PMID 39765587

Authors

Christian Agrillo

Eleonora Rovegno

Marco Dadda

Cristiano Bertolucci

Angelo Bisazza

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Abstract

The zebrafish model is rapidly advancing numerous areas of basic and translational research, including toxicology, drug discovery, molecular genetics, genomic research, developmental biology, and the study of human diseases (reviewed in [...].

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