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Castranova D, Kenton MI, Kraus A, Dell CW, Park JS, Venero Galanternik M, Park G, Lumbantobing DN, Dye L, Marvel M, Iben J, Taimatsu K, Pham V, Willms RJ, Blevens L, Robertson TF, Hou Y, Huttenlocher A, Foley E, Parenti LR, Frazer JK, Narayan K, Weinstein BM. The axillary lymphoid organ is an external, experimentally accessible immune organ in the zebrafish. J Exp Med. 2025 Jun 2;222(6). doi: 10.1084/jem.20241435. Epub 2025 Apr 1. PubMed PMID: 40167600; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11960710.
Wilson P, Vishwakarma V, Norcross R, Khaire K, Pham VN, Weinstein BM, Jung HM, Galperin E. Signaling scaffold Shoc2 regulates lymphangiogenesis by suppressing mTORC1-mediated IFN responses. bioRxiv. 2025 Apr 28;. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.26.645567. PubMed PMID: 40196569; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11974843.
Wang K, Graziano G, Ceisel A, Xiao H, Banerjee S, Yu Y, Galanternik MV, Weinstein BM, Eberhart CG, Mumm J, Raabe E. Developing a zebrafish xenograft model of diffuse midline glioma. bioRxiv. 2025 Apr 3;. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.31.646163. PubMed PMID: 40236039; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11996398.
Johnson D, Colijn S, Richee J, Yano J, Burns M, Davis AE, Pham VN, Saric A, Jain A, Yin Y, Castranova D, Melani M, Fujita M, Grainger S, Bonifacino JS, Weinstein BM, Stratman AN. Angiogenesis is limited by LIC1-mediated lysosomal trafficking. Angiogenesis. 2024 Nov;27(4):943-962. doi: 10.1007/s10456-024-09951-7. Epub 2024 Oct 2. PubMed PMID: 39356418; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11653708.
Greenspan LJ, Cisneros I, Weinstein BM. Dermal Dive: An Overview of Cutaneous Wounding Techniques in Zebrafish. J Invest Dermatol. 2024 Jul;144(7):1430-1439. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2024.04.003. Epub 2024 May 15. Review. PubMed PMID: 38752940; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11218931.
Greenspan LJ, Ameyaw KK, Castranova D, Mertus CA, Weinstein BM. Live Imaging of Cutaneous Wound Healing after Rotary Tool Injury in Zebrafish. J Invest Dermatol. 2024 Apr;144(4):888-897.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2023.10.015. Epub 2023 Nov 17. PubMed PMID: 37979772; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10960721.
Tamaoki J, Maeda H, Kobayashi I, Takeuchi M, Ohashi K, Gore A, Bonkhofer F, Patient R, Weinstein BM, Kobayashi M. LSD1 promotes the egress of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells into the bloodstream during the endothelial-to-hematopoietic transition. Dev Biol. 2023 Sep;501:92-103. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2023.06.012. Epub 2023 Jun 22. PubMed PMID: 37353106; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10393020.
Pillay LM, Yano JJ, Davis AE, Butler MG, Ezeude MO, Park JS, Barnes KA, Reyes VL, Castranova D, Gore AV, Swift MR, Iben JR, Kenton MI, Stratman AN, Weinstein BM. In vivo dissection of Rhoa function in vascular development using zebrafish. Angiogenesis. 2022 Aug;25(3):411-434. doi: 10.1007/s10456-022-09834-9. Epub 2022 Mar 23. PubMed PMID: 35320450.
Paulissen SM, Castranova DM, Krispin SM, Burns MC, Menéndez J, Torres-Vázquez J, Weinstein BM. Anatomy and development of the pectoral fin vascular network in the zebrafish. Development. 2022 Mar 1;149(5). doi: 10.1242/dev.199676. Epub 2022 Mar 4. PubMed PMID: 35132436; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8959142.
Castranova D, Samasa B, Venero Galanternik M, Gore AV, Goldstein AE, Park JS, Weinstein BM. Long-term imaging of living adult zebrafish. Development. 2022 Feb 15;149(4). doi: 10.1242/dev.199667. Epub 2022 Feb 21. PubMed PMID: 35142351; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8918778.
Davis AE, Castranova D, Weinstein BM. Rapid Generation of Pigment Free, Immobile Zebrafish Embryos and Larvae in Any Genetic Background Using CRISPR-Cas9 dgRNPs. Zebrafish. 2021 Aug;18(4):235-242. doi: 10.1089/zeb.2021.0011. Epub 2021 Jun 2. PubMed PMID: 34077687; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8392167.
Ma L, Ng M, Shi J, Gore AV, Castranova D, Weinstein BM, Jeffery WR. Publisher Correction: Maternal control of visceral asymmetry evolution in Astyanax cavefish. Sci Rep. 2021 Jun 15;11(1):12934. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92148-5. PubMed PMID: 34131272; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8206342.
Ma L, Ng M, Shi J, Gore AV, Castranova D, Weinstein BM, Jeffery WR. Maternal control of visceral asymmetry evolution in Astyanax cavefish. Sci Rep. 2021 May 13;11(1):10312. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89702-6. PubMed PMID: 33986376; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8119719.
Greenspan LJ, Weinstein BM. To be or not to be: endothelial cell plasticity in development, repair, and disease. Angiogenesis. 2021 May;24(2):251-269. doi: 10.1007/s10456-020-09761-7. Epub 2021 Jan 15. Review. PubMed PMID: 33449300; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8205957.
Castranova D, Samasa B, Venero Galanternik M, Jung HM, Pham VN, Weinstein BM. Live Imaging of Intracranial Lymphatics in the Zebrafish. Circ Res. 2021 Jan 8;128(1):42-58. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.120.317372. Epub 2020 Nov 2. PubMed PMID: 33135960; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7790877.
Stratman AN, Weinstein BM. Assessment of Vascular Patterning in the Zebrafish. Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2206:205-222. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0916-3_15. PubMed PMID: 32754820.
Stratman AN, Burns MC, Farrelly OM, Davis AE, Li W, Pham VN, Castranova D, Yano JJ, Goddard LM, Nguyen O, Galanternik MV, Bolan TJ, Kahn ML, Mukouyama YS, Weinstein BM. Chemokine mediated signalling within arteries promotes vascular smooth muscle cell recruitment. Commun Biol. 2020 Dec 4;3(1):734. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01462-7. PubMed PMID: 33277595; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7719186.
Ma L, Gore AV, Castranova D, Shi J, Ng M, Tomins KA, van der Weele CM, Weinstein BM, Jeffery WR. Author Correction: A hypomorphic cystathionine ß-synthase gene contributes to cavefish eye loss by disrupting optic vasculature. Nat Commun. 2020 Oct 22;11(1):5458. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19340-5. PubMed PMID: 33093486; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7581518.
Ma L, Gore AV, Castranova D, Shi J, Ng M, Tomins KA, van der Weele CM, Weinstein BM, Jeffery WR. A hypomorphic cystathionine ß-synthase gene contributes to cavefish eye loss by disrupting optic vasculature. Nat Commun. 2020 Jun 2;11(1):2772. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16497-x. PubMed PMID: 32487986; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7265459.
Stratman AN, Farrelly OM, Mikelis CM, Miller MF, Wang Z, Pham VN, Davis AE, Burns MC, Pezoa SA, Castranova D, Yano JJ, Kilts TM, Davis GE, Gutkind JS, Weinstein BM. Anti-angiogenic effects of VEGF stimulation on endothelium deficient in phosphoinositide recycling. Nat Commun. 2020 Mar 5;11(1):1204. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14956-z. PubMed PMID: 32139674; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7058007.
Jung HM, Hu CT, Fister AM, Davis AE, Castranova D, Pham VN, Price LM, Weinstein BM. MicroRNA-mediated control of developmental lymphangiogenesis. Elife. 2019 Sep 3;8. doi: 10.7554/eLife.46007. PubMed PMID: 31478836; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6721793.
Li D, March ME, Gutierrez-Uzquiza A, Kao C, Seiler C, Pinto E, Matsuoka LS, Battig MR, Bhoj EJ, Wenger TL, Tian L, Robinson N, Wang T, Liu Y, Weinstein BM, Swift M, Jung HM, Kaminski CN, Chiavacci R, Perkins JA, Levine MA, Sleiman PMA, Hicks PJ, Strausbaugh JT, Belasco JB, Dori Y, Hakonarson H. ARAF recurrent mutation causes central conducting lymphatic anomaly treatable with a MEK inhibitor. Nat Med. 2019 Jul;25(7):1116-1122. doi: 10.1038/s41591-019-0479-2. Epub 2019 Jul 1. PubMed PMID: 31263281.
Santoro MM, Beltrame M, Panáková D, Siekmann AF, Tiso N, Venero Galanternik M, Jung HM, Weinstein BM. Advantages and Challenges of Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Studies in Zebrafish Research. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2019;7:89. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2019.00089. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31192207; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6546721.
Nowak-Sliwinska P, Alitalo K, Allen E, Anisimov A, Aplin AC, Auerbach R, Augustin HG, Bates DO, van Beijnum JR, Bender RHF, Bergers G, Bikfalvi A, Bischoff J, Böck BC, Brooks PC, Bussolino F, Cakir B, Carmeliet P, Castranova D, Cimpean AM, Cleaver O, Coukos G, Davis GE, De Palma M, Dimberg A, Dings RPM, Djonov V, Dudley AC, Dufton NP, Fendt SM, Ferrara N, Fruttiger M, Fukumura D, Ghesquière B, Gong Y, Griffin RJ, Harris AL, Hughes CCW, Hultgren NW, Iruela-Arispe ML, Irving M, Jain RK, Kalluri R, Kalucka J, Kerbel RS, Kitajewski J, Klaassen I, Kleinmann HK, Koolwijk P, Kuczynski E, Kwak BR, Marien K, Melero-Martin JM, Munn LL, Nicosia RF, Noel A, Nurro J, Olsson AK, Petrova TV, Pietras K, Pili R, Pollard JW, Post MJ, Quax PHA, Rabinovich GA, Raica M, Randi AM, Ribatti D, Ruegg C, Schlingemann RO, Schulte-Merker S, Smith LEH, Song JW, Stacker SA, Stalin J, Stratman AN, Van de Velde M, van Hinsbergh VWM, Vermeulen PB, Waltenberger J, Weinstein BM, Xin H, Yetkin-Arik B, Yla-Herttuala S, Yoder MC, Griffioen AW. Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays. Angiogenesis. 2018 Aug;21(3):425-532. doi: 10.1007/s10456-018-9613-x. Review. PubMed PMID: 29766399; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6237663.
Gore AV, Tomins KA, Iben J, Ma L, Castranova D, Davis AE, Parkhurst A, Jeffery WR, Weinstein BM. An epigenetic mechanism for cavefish eye degeneration. Nat Ecol Evol. 2018 Jul;2(7):1155-1160. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0569-4. Epub 2018 May 28. PubMed PMID: 29807993; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6023768.
Gore AV, Pillay LM, Venero Galanternik M, Weinstein BM. The zebrafish: A fintastic model for hematopoietic development and disease. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Dev Biol. 2018 May;7(3):e312. doi: 10.1002/wdev.312. Epub 2018 Feb 13. Review. PubMed PMID: 29436122; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6785202.
Krispin S, Stratman AN, Melick CH, Stan RV, Malinverno M, Gleklen J, Castranova D, Dejana E, Weinstein BM. Growth Differentiation Factor 6 Promotes Vascular Stability by Restraining Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Signaling. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2018 Feb;38(2):353-362. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.117.309571. Epub 2017 Dec 28. PubMed PMID: 29284606; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5785447.
Stainier DYR, Raz E, Lawson ND, Ekker SC, Burdine RD, Eisen JS, Ingham PW, Schulte-Merker S, Yelon D, Weinstein BM, Mullins MC, Wilson SW, Ramakrishnan L, Amacher SL, Neuhauss SCF, Meng A, Mochizuki N, Panula P, Moens CB. Guidelines for morpholino use in zebrafish. PLoS Genet. 2017 Oct;13(10):e1007000. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007000. eCollection 2017 Oct. PubMed PMID: 29049395; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5648102.
Jung HM, Castranova D, Swift MR, Pham VN, Venero Galanternik M, Isogai S, Butler MG, Mulligan TS, Weinstein BM. Development of the larval lymphatic system in zebrafish. Development. 2017 Jun 1;144(11):2070-2081. doi: 10.1242/dev.145755. Epub 2017 May 15. PubMed PMID: 28506987; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5482986.
Venero Galanternik M, Castranova D, Gore AV, Blewett NH, Jung HM, Stratman AN, Kirby MR, Iben J, Miller MF, Kawakami K, Maraia RJ, Weinstein BM. A novel perivascular cell population in the zebrafish brain. Elife. 2017 Apr 11;6. doi: 10.7554/eLife.24369. PubMed PMID: 28395729; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5423774.
Stratman AN, Pezoa SA, Farrelly OM, Castranova D, Dye LE 3rd, Butler MG, Sidik H, Talbot WS, Weinstein BM. Interactions between mural cells and endothelial cells stabilize the developing zebrafish dorsal aorta. Development. 2017 Jan 1;144(1):115-127. doi: 10.1242/dev.143131. Epub 2016 Dec 2. PubMed PMID: 27913637; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5278630.
Moore JC, Mulligan TS, Yordán NT, Castranova D, Pham VN, Tang Q, Lobbardi R, Anselmo A, Liwski RS, Berman JN, Sadreyev RI, Weinstein BM, Langenau DM. T Cell Immune Deficiency in zap70 Mutant Zebrafish. Mol Cell Biol. 2016 Dec 1;36(23):2868-2876. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00281-16. Print 2016 Dec 1. PubMed PMID: 27601584; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5108876.
Grainger S, Richter J, Palazón RE, Pouget C, Lonquich B, Wirth S, Grassme KS, Herzog W, Swift MR, Weinstein BM, Traver D, Willert K. Wnt9a Is Required for the Aortic Amplification of Nascent Hematopoietic Stem Cells. Cell Rep. 2016 Nov 1;17(6):1595-1606. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.10.027. PubMed PMID: 27806298; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6309681.
Venero Galanternik M, Stratman AN, Jung HM, Butler MG, Weinstein BM. Building the drains: the lymphatic vasculature in health and disease. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Dev Biol. 2016 Nov;5(6):689-710. doi: 10.1002/wdev.246. Epub 2016 Aug 30. Review. PubMed PMID: 27576003.
Gore AV, Weinstein BM. DNA methylation in hematopoietic development and disease. Exp Hematol. 2016 Sep;44(9):783-790. doi: 10.1016/j.exphem.2016.04.013. Epub 2016 May 10. Review. PubMed PMID: 27178734; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4992597.
Jung HM, Isogai S, Kamei M, Castranova D, Gore AV, Weinstein BM. Imaging blood vessels and lymphatic vessels in the zebrafish. Methods Cell Biol. 2016;133:69-103. doi: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2016.03.023. Epub 2016 Apr 18. PubMed PMID: 27263409.
Castranova D, Davis AE, Lo BD, Miller MF, Paukstelis PJ, Swift MR, Pham VN, Torres-Vázquez J, Bell K, Shaw KM, Kamei M, Weinstein BM. Aminoacyl-Transfer RNA Synthetase Deficiency Promotes Angiogenesis via the Unfolded Protein Response Pathway. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2016 Apr;36(4):655-62. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.115.307087. Epub 2016 Jan 28. PubMed PMID: 26821951; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4808418.
Nohata N, Uchida Y, Stratman AN, Adams RH, Zheng Y, Weinstein BM, Mukouyama YS, Gutkind JS. Temporal-specific roles of Rac1 during vascular development and retinal angiogenesis. Dev Biol. 2016 Mar 15;411(2):183-194. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.02.005. Epub 2016 Feb 10. PubMed PMID: 26872874.
Ulrich F, Carretero-Ortega J, Menéndez J, Narvaez C, Sun B, Lancaster E, Pershad V, Trzaska S, Véliz E, Kamei M, Prendergast A, Kidd KR, Shaw KM, Castranova DA, Pham VN, Lo BD, Martin BL, Raible DW, Weinstein BM, Torres-Vázquez J. Reck enables cerebrovascular development by promoting canonical Wnt signaling. Development. 2016 Mar 15;143(6):1055. doi: 10.1242/dev.136507. PubMed PMID: 26980794; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4813290.
Gore AV, Athans B, Iben JR, Johnson K, Russanova V, Castranova D, Pham VN, Butler MG, Williams-Simons L, Nichols JT, Bresciani E, Feldman B, Kimmel CB, Liu PP, Weinstein BM. Epigenetic regulation of hematopoiesis by DNA methylation. Elife. 2016 Jan 27;5:e11813. doi: 10.7554/eLife.11813. PubMed PMID: 26814702; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4744183.
Ulrich F, Carretero-Ortega J, Menéndez J, Narvaez C, Sun B, Lancaster E, Pershad V, Trzaska S, Véliz E, Kamei M, Prendergast A, Kidd KR, Shaw KM, Castranova DA, Pham VN, Lo BD, Martin BL, Raible DW, Weinstein BM, Torres-Vázquez J. Reck enables cerebrovascular development by promoting canonical Wnt signaling. Development. 2016 Jan 1;143(1):147-59. doi: 10.1242/dev.123059. Epub 2015 Dec 10. PubMed PMID: 26657775; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4725199.
Yu JA, Castranova D, Pham VN, Weinstein BM. Single-cell analysis of endothelial morphogenesis in vivo. Development. 2015 Sep 1;142(17):2951-61. doi: 10.1242/dev.123174. Epub 2015 Aug 7. PubMed PMID: 26253401; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4582182.
Butler MG, Iben JR, Marsden KC, Epstein JA, Granato M, Weinstein BM. SNPfisher: tools for probing genetic variation in laboratory-reared zebrafish. Development. 2015 Apr 15;142(8):1542-52. doi: 10.1242/dev.118786. Epub 2015 Mar 26. PubMed PMID: 25813542; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4392598.
Kallakuri S, Yu JA, Li J, Li Y, Weinstein BM, Nicoli S, Sun Z. Endothelial cilia are essential for developmental vascular integrity in zebrafish. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Apr;26(4):864-75. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2013121314. Epub 2014 Sep 11. PubMed PMID: 25214579; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4378100.
Butler MG, Iben J, Weinstein BM. SNPfisher. In: [Internet]. Bethesda, MD: NICHD, NIH; 2015. Available from: http://snpfisher.nichd.nih.gov/snpfisher/snpfisher.html.
Mulligan TS, Weinstein BM. Emerging from the PAC: studying zebrafish lymphatic development. Microvasc Res. 2014 Nov;96:23-30. doi: 10.1016/j.mvr.2014.06.001. Epub 2014 Jun 11. Review. PubMed PMID: 24928500.
Bresciani E, Carrington B, Wincovitch S, Jones M, Gore AV, Weinstein BM, Sood R, Liu PP. CBFβ and RUNX1 are required at 2 different steps during the development of hematopoietic stem cells in zebrafish. Blood. 2014 Jul 3;124(1):70-8. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-10-531988. Epub 2014 May 21. PubMed PMID: 24850758; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4125354.
Swift MR, Pham VN, Castranova D, Bell K, Poole RJ, Weinstein BM. SoxF factors and Notch regulate nr2f2 gene expression during venous differentiation in zebrafish. Dev Biol. 2014 Jun 15;390(2):116-25. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.03.018. Epub 2014 Mar 31. PubMed PMID: 24699544; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4104406.
Fang F, Wasserman SM, Torres-Vazquez J, Weinstein B, Cao F, Li Z, Wilson KD, Yue W, Wu JC, Xie X, Pei X. The role of Hath6, a newly identified shear-stress-responsive transcription factor, in endothelial cell differentiation and function. J Cell Sci. 2014 Apr 1;127(Pt 7):1428-40. doi: 10.1242/jcs.136358. Epub 2014 Jan 24. PubMed PMID: 24463812; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3970556.
Stratman AN, Yu JA, Mulligan TS, Butler MG, Pan W, Weinstein BM. Principles of Developmental Genetics. In: Moody SA, editor. Blood vessel formation 2nd ed. New York: Elsevier Press; 2014.
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