Abnormal Fluid Flow Contributes to Curved Spines (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Abnormal Fluid Flow Contributes to Curved Spines (1 of 2)

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Three-dimensional microCT skeletal reconstructions of a normal adult zebrafish (left) compared to a zebrafish genetic model of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (right). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 10, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.T. Grimes at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., and colleagues was titled, "Zebrafish models of idiopathic scoliosis link cerebrospinal fluid flow defects to spine curvature."

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