Population
Zebrafish (adult fish and embryos)
Design
Preclinical
Key result
Overexpression of zebrafish IGFBP-6a and IGFBP-6b caused a similar degree of reduction in body size and developmental rate without notable effects on cell fate or patterning.
Authors
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Zebrafish overexpression data implicate IGFBP-6 in somatic growth; leaves open conservation and relevance to human development.
The study identifies two functional IGFBP-6 genes in zebrafish that encode functionally similar proteins but have evolved distinct spatial and temporal expression patterns.
Wang et al. (2009) studied this question. Overexpression of zebrafish IGFBP-6a and IGFBP-6b was evaluated on Body size and developmental rate. Overexpression of zebrafish IGFBP-6a and IGFBP-6b caused a similar degree of reduction in body size and developmental rate without notable effects on cell fate or patterning.
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