Mie University

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Biology

Repeated Blood Collection for Blood Tests in Adult Zebrafish

Liqing Zang¹, Yasuhito Shimada², Yuhei Nishimura², Toshio Tanaka², Norihiro Nishimura¹

¹Department of Translational Medical Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Mie University, ²Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Pharmacogenomics, and Pharmacoinformatics, Graduate School of Medicine, Mie University

Repeated blood sampling is necessary and important in animal research. We developed a novel, non-lethal and reliable method for repeated blood collection from adult zebrafish, and applied this method to the study of blood biochemistry, including glucose metabolism.