We modified the Marmarou weight drop model for adult zebrafish to examine a breadth of pathologies following blunt-force traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the mechanisms underlying subsequent neuronal regeneration. This blunt-force TBI model is scalable, induces a mild, moderate, or severe TBI, and recapitulates injury heterogeneity observed in human TBI.
Hentig, J., Cloghessy, K., Dunseath, C., Hyde, D. R. A Scalable Model to Study the Effects of Blunt-Force Injury in Adult Zebrafish. J. Vis. Exp. (171), e62709, doi:10.3791/62709 (2021).