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  1. A transgenic zebrafish model for the in vivo study of the blood and choroid plexus brain barriers using claudin 5

    Article • August 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Astrid van der Sar

  2. Subcellular localization of M. tuberculosis in vivo and effect of the adaptive immunity

    Article • Ultrastructural Pathology, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Astrid van der Sar

  3. Correction: First Demonstration of Antigen Induced Cytokine Expression by CD4-1+ Lymphocytes in a Poikilotherm: Studies in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2016, PLOS

    Astrid van der Sar

  4. Infection of zebrafish embryos with live fluorescent Streptococcus pneumoniae as a real-time pneumococcal meningitis model

    Article • Journal of Neuroinflammation, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Astrid van der Sar

  5. Prophylactic administration of chicken cathelicidin-2 boosts zebrafish embryonic innate immunity

    Article • Developmental & Comparative Immunology, July 2016, Elsevier

    Astrid van der Sar

  6. First Demonstration of Antigen Induced Cytokine Expression by CD4-1+ Lymphocytes in a Poikilotherm: Studies in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2015, PLOS

    Astrid van der Sar

  7. Animal Models of Tuberculosis: Zebrafish

    Article • Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, November 2014, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Astrid van der Sar

  8. Modeling tuberculous meningitis in zebrafish using Mycobacterium marinum

    Article • Disease Models & Mechanisms, July 2014, The Company of Biologists

    Astrid van der Sar

  9. Crystal structure of RNase AS from M tuberculosis in complex with UMP

    Article • May 2014, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Astrid van der Sar

  10. Structure and Function of RNase AS, a Polyadenylate-Specific Exoribonuclease Affecting Mycobacterial Virulence In Vivo

    Article • Structure, May 2014, Elsevier

    Astrid van der Sar, Rita Berisio

  11. Assessing Pseudomonas Virulence with Nonmammalian Host: Zebrafish

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Astrid van der Sar

  12. Analysis of SecA2-dependent substrates inMycobacterium marinumidentifies protein kinase G (PknG) as a virulence effector

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, November 2013, Wiley

    Astrid van der Sar

  13. Mannan core branching of lipo(arabino)mannan is required for mycobacterial virulence in the context of innate immunity

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, August 2013, Wiley

    Astrid van der Sar

  14. Galectin-4 Reduces Migration and Metastasis Formation of Pancreatic Cancer Cells

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2013, PLOS

    Astrid van der Sar

  15. Modeling tuberculosis meningitis in the zebrafish-Mycobacterium marinum infection model

    Article • Tijdschrift voor kindergeneeskunde, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Astrid van der Sar

  16. Tubercle bacilli rely on a type VII army for pathogenicity

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, October 2012, Elsevier

    Astrid van der Sar

  17. Unexpected Link between Lipooligosaccharide Biosynthesis and Surface Protein Release inMycobacterium marinum

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, April 2012, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Astrid van der Sar

  18. Infection of Zebrafish Embryos with Intracellular Bacterial Pathogens

    Article • Journal of Visualized Experiments, March 2012, MyJove Corporation

    Astrid van der Sar

  19. ESX-5-deficient Mycobacterium marinum is hypervirulent in adult zebrafish

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, February 2012, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Astrid van der Sar

  20. Discovery of zebrafish (Danio rerio) interleukin-23 alpha (IL-23α) chain, a subunit important for the formation of IL-23, a cytokine involved in the development of Th17 cells and inflammation

    Article • Molecular Immunology, April 2011, Elsevier

    Astrid van der Sar

  21. A Novel Extracytoplasmic Function (ECF) Sigma Factor Regulates Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, September 2009, PLOS

    Astrid van der Sar

  22. Specificity of the zebrafish host transcriptome response to acute and chronic mycobacterial infection and the role of innate and adaptive immune components

    Article • Molecular Immunology, July 2009, Elsevier

    Astrid van der Sar

  23. Identification and real-time imaging of a myc-expressing neutrophil population involved in inflammation and mycobacterial granuloma formation in zebrafish

    Article • Developmental & Comparative Immunology, January 2008, Elsevier

    Astrid van der Sar

  24. Transmission of Mycobacterium marinum From Fish to a Very Young Child

    Article • The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, January 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Astrid van der Sar

  25. MyD88 Innate Immune Function in a Zebrafish Embryo Infection Model

    Article • Infection and Immunity, April 2006, ASM Journals

    Astrid van der Sar

  26. Transcriptome profiling of adult zebrafish at the late stage of chronic tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium marinum infection

    Article • Molecular Immunology, June 2005, Elsevier

    Astrid van der Sar

  27. A star with stripes: zebrafish as an infection model

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, October 2004, Elsevier

    Astrid van der Sar

  28. Zebrafish embryos as a model host for the real time analysis ofSalmonella typhimuriuminfections

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, September 2003, Wiley

    Astrid van der Sar

  29. Eye defects in receptor protein-tyrosine phosphatase ? knock-down zebrafish

    Article • Developmental Dynamics, February 2002, Wiley

    Astrid van der Sar

  30. Expression of receptor protein–tyrosine phosphatase alpha, sigma and LAR during development of the zebrafish embryo

    Article • Mechanisms of Development, December 2001, Elsevier

    Astrid van der Sar