What is Marine & Freshwater Biomedical Sciences?

Biomedicine is the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice. Marine and freshwater biomedical science research at OSU uses aquatic models to address important issues in human toxicology and environmental health. The ultimate goal of these efforts is the advancement of approaches for the successful prevention and treatment of human diseases.

More specifically, the MFBS Center at OSU focuses on:

• the use of the trout tumor model for large-scale low dose response studies and for research on dietary modulation of carcinogenesis;
• the zebrafish model for studies on carcinogenesis and on neuro and developmental toxicology; and
• the isolation and characterization of natural products from marine algae, and the molecular mechanisms of their unique neurotoxicology and pharmacological properties.

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General Resources

• Something's Fishy - The research of Dr. Robert Tanguay
• Fish Models for Environmental Carcinogenesis: The Rainbow Trout (Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 104, Number S1, March 1996)
• Aquatic Models in the Study of Human Health and Disease from UWM
• Unique Marine/Freshwater Models for Environmental Health Research Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 107, Number 1, January 1999)
• Why Study Marine Organisms for Biomedical Research?
• Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
• Cell and Molecular Biology On-line
• Glossary of Marine Biomedical related terms

Zebrafish resources

• All about zebrafish from the Institute of Neuroscience
• Model Organisms for Biomedical Research
  National Institutes of Health
• The Zebrafish Information Network: Zebrafish movies
• Fish terminology

Images:

• Cell Alive!
• Atlas of Hematology
• The WWW Virtual Library of Cell Biology