Meet the editors

Eva Tvrdá obtained a MSc in Biotechnologies, followed by a PhD in Molecular Biology at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia. She works as a senior researcher at the Department of Animal Physiology, Slovak University of Agriculture as well as the head of the Laboratory for Andrology and Molecular Toxicology at the AgroBioTech Research Center. Dr. Tvrdá has published more than 100 articles and eight book chapters on the

topics of male reproduction in health and disease, oxidative balance and antioxidants. She has been collaborating with research groups from Spain, South Africa, Namibia, the United States and Poland. She is a former Erasmus, Sciex MNSch and Fulbright fellow, and member of the European Federation of Animal Science and the Association for Applied Animal Andrology.

Dr. Sarat Chandra Yenisetti is a professor and head of the Drosophila Neurobiology Laboratory (DNBL) in the Department of Zoology, Nagaland University (Central), Nagaland, India. He obtained a MSc from Bangaluru University, India, and a PhD from Kuvempu University, India. He completed post-doctoral training at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and in Neurogenetics at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

(NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA. He follows *Drosophila* approaches to understand Parkinson's disease–associated neurodegeneration and to identify novel therapeutic targets that may help to reduce the burden of Parkinson's in humans. Dr. Yenisetti has visited the United States, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, South Korea, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Canada to participate in multiple academic assignments.

Contents

Animal Models of Cardiomyopathies

on Pathology and Implant Material

Animal Models of Burn Wound Management

Animal Models in Psychiatric Disorder Studies

Zucker Diabetic Fatty Rats for Research in Diabetes

Understanding Taste Using *Drosophila melanogaster*

*by Marcela Capcarova and Anna Kalafova*

in Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Patients

Epidemic and Pandemic Diseases

*by Shivam Kaushik and Pinky Kain*

*by Saikat Samadder*

*and Annelie-Martina Weinberg*

*and Mirian Akemi Furuie Hayashi*

*and Yi-Wen Wang*

*by Enkhsaikhan Purevjav*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 43**

**Chapter 4 57**

**Chapter 5 75**

**Chapter 6 93**

**Chapter 7 107**

**Chapter 8 129**

ZDF Rats: A Suitable Model to Study Male Reproductive Dysfunction

*Drosophila melanogaster*: A Robust Tool to Study Candidate Drug against

Animal Models in Orthopedic Research: The Proper Animal Model to Answer Fundamental Questions on Bone Healing Depending

*by Nicole Gabriele Sommer, David Hahn, Begüm Okutan, Romy Marek* 

*by Shu-Jen Chang, Dewi Sartika, Gang-Yi Fan, Juin-Hong Cherng* 

*by João Victor Nani, Benjamín Rodríguez, Fabio Cardoso Cruz* 

*by Filip Benko, Mária Chomová, Oľga Uličná and Eva Tvrdá*
