image: Skeletal stains of mutant zebrafish, which develop idiopathic-like scolosis. Left: untreated (control) fish develop severe spinal curvatures. Right: siblings treated with N-acetyl cysteine for 20 days after scoliosis onset demonstrate significant reduction in spinal curve severity. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 12th, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. L. M. Van Gennip at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Neuroinflammatory signals drive spinal curve formation in zebrafish models of idiopathic scoliosis." view more
Credit: Jenica Van Gennip