Research Progress in Toxicity Assessment Using Zebrafish / 中国药师

ABSTRACT

Zebrafish toxicity assessment system is one of the important vertebrate model systems. Zebrafish is playing an increas-ingly important role in the field of toxicology studies because of its small size, short generation cycle, the transparent embryo and high reproductive rate. Now it is widely used in the embryonic derelopmental toxicology, pathological toxicology, environmental toxicology and other areas of toxicology studies with its unique advantages.