Characterising a working behavioural model to chronically stress zebrafish subjects and optimising brain RNA extraction in preparation for RNA-Seq analysis.

• Main Author: Siddharth Janarthanan.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53811
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The zebrafish has been established to be a good model to study the effects of fear and stress on the brain. It has been documented that events such as exposure to nicotine, netting, restraining in small spaces or exposure to air induce stress in fish. In addition, alarm signal molecules releas...