Guilherme Pietro da Silva , Janine Doorduin , Wiktor Szymanski , Rosane Souza da Silva , Philip Elsinga , Carla Denise Bonan
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Harnessing zebrafish as a model for photopharmacology: Insights into light-controlled biological effects of photoswitchable drugs
Photopharmacology is an emerging field of pharmacological sciences that enables precise spatiotemporal control over drug activation with light. In its reversible mode, it relies on photoswitchable bioactive compounds. The capacity to reversibly activate and deactivate drugs derivatized with photoswitches enables us to avoid side effects and environmental toxicity. Zebrafish represent an emerging and privileged model for translational photopharmacology because of their optical transparency at early developmental stages, genetic tractability, and well-characterized biological mechanisms. In this review, we discuss the use of zebrafish in advancing photopharmacology and understanding the effects of light-controlled interventions using photoswitchable bioactive compounds.
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Drug Discovery Today delivers informed and highly current reviews for the discovery community. The magazine addresses not only the rapid scientific developments in drug discovery associated technologies but also the management, commercial and regulatory issues that increasingly play a part in how R&D is planned, structured and executed.
Features include comment by international experts, news and analysis of important developments, reviews of key scientific and strategic issues, overviews of recent progress in specific therapeutic areas and conference reports.