Zebrafish offer aquaculture research their services

Aleström, Peter; Winther‐Larsen, Hanne C.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-801418-9.00007-x

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“…The cyprinidae zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a well-established biomedicine and aquaculture research animal model [7][8][9][10]. As a model for aquaculture studies, zebrafish enables lower research costs and possesses a well-known digestive system from both the morphofunctional and microbiome points of view [11,12], making it a useful model to assess the relationship between nutrition and health [13,14].…”

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Dietary Supplementation with a Blend of Hydrolyzable and Condensed Tannins Ameliorates Diet-Induced Intestinal Inflammation in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

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Fronte

Scicchitano

et al. 2022

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The current study evaluated the effects of hydrolyzable and condensed tannins from chestnut and quebracho wood, respectively (TSP, Silvafeed®), on zebrafish with intestinal inflammation induced by a plant-based diet (basal diet). Four experimental diets were prepared as follows: the basal diet + 0 TSP, the basal diet + TSP at 0.9 g/Kg of feed, the basal diet + TSP at 1.7 g/Kg of feed, and the basal diet + TSP at 3.4 g/Kg of feed. Eighty-four zebrafish (Danio rerio) were fed for 12 days with the experimental diets. In zebrafish fed the basal diet, intestine integrity appeared to be altered, with damaged intestinal villi, high immunoexpression of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) and cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2), and high expression of the cox2, interleukin 1 (il-1b), interleukin 8 (cxcl8-l1), and tnfα genes. The tannin treatment partially restored intestinal morphology and downregulated the expression of cytokines. The best activity was detected with 1.7 and 3.4 g/kg of feed. In the guts of all groups, Proteobacteria, Fusobacteria, Firmicutes, and Bacteroidetes were the most represented phyla. The most represented genera were Plesiomonas and Sphingomonas, belonging to the Proteobacteria phylum; Cetobacterium, belonging to the Fusobacteria phylum; and Lactobacillus, belonging to the Firmicutes phylum. No significant differences were detected among groups, except for a slight decrease in the Fusobacteria phylum and slight increases in the Shewanella and Bacteroides genera with TSP. In conclusion, these results suggest that tannins can improve the zebrafish intestinal inflammation caused by a terrestrial-plant-based diet in a dose-dependent manner.

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Dietary Supplementation with a Blend of Hydrolyzable and Condensed Tannins Ameliorates Diet-Induced Intestinal Inflammation in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

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“…Also, this species is almost the only one from this systematic review that was used to study human bacterial, viral and fungal pathogens (except for the work on Anguilla anguilla infected with Vibrio vulnificus ). Interestingly, this species is the second most widely used organism as a research model in human biomedicine (Aleström & Winther‐Larsen 2016).…”

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Insights into gene expression responses to infections in teleosts using microarray data: a systematic review

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Mandaković²,

Cabrera³

et al. 2020

Reviews in Aquaculture

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The rapid growth of production in aquaculture in the last decades has brought unwanted consequences affecting fish health and increasing the susceptibility to different infections. This systematic review aimed to analyse and summarize the current knowledge of gene expression responses to infectious diseases in teleosts using viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites as agents through published microarray data. We conducted searches in electronic databases, including PubMed, Web of Science and SCOPUS until 1 May 2019. We identified 862 citations across databases and manual searches. After removing duplicates, we screened 455 unique references using titles and abstracts, of which 262 proved potentially eligible and evaluated using full text. A total of 79 articles proved eligible for this review. From the articles retrieved, we examined 261 different experiments (or 'studies') and more than a hundred thousand differentially expressed genes (DEGs). This systematic review represents the first catalogue of genes (and their associated processes) that differentially transcribe in different teleost species (13 species) due to infections generated by a large variety of pathogens (38 types). Although the obtained gene expression results are in considerable measure associated with expected immune response, other genes showed surprising significant transcriptional outcomes that may unravel unknown functions related to fish infections. This type of investigations facilitates the visualization of existing gaps in researches that may inspire future analysis in non-traditional but relevant host or pathogen species.

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“…In finfish, this issue has been alleviated by the introduction of model species. For example, zebrafish Danio rerio has been used as a model species to investigate issues with broader implications in aquaculture and fishery as this species has a short life cycle and could be easily maintained in laboratory conditions (Aleström and Winther-Larsen, 2016). In addition, zebrafish has also long been the model species for oocyte cryopreservation in fish and has recently been recommended as a model to study generation effects of sperm cryopreservation (Dong et al, 2008).…”

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Development of a non-programmable sperm cryopreservation technique in dwarf surfclams Mulinia lateralis–a potential model species for bivalve research

Xu,

Yang,

Bao

et al. 2024

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Sperm cryopreservation technique has been published in many farmed bivalve species. One of the key factors preventing its application in aquaculture and/or cryobanking is the knowledge gap on the performance of resultant progeny at late developmental stages and subsequent generations. An effective strategy to overcome these challenges is to use a model species with a short generation interval, such as the dwarf surfclam Mulinia lateralis (three months). This study evaluated the parameters key to the development of a non-programmable sperm cryopreservation technique in this species, with a D-stage larval rate similar to control being achieved when the sperm were cryopreserved under the conditions (cryoprotectant agent: 8% dimethyl sulfoxide; equilibration period: 10 min; rack height: 4 cm; thawing temperature: 60°C and sperm to egg ratio: 1100:1) optimized. This technique is the most common method applied in bivalve and the results from this study were all within the ranges published for other bivalve species, indicating this species would be an ideal bivalve model species for addressing cryopreservation evaluation issues that need a long extended time to collect data and/or challenging field experiments.

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Zebrafish offer aquaculture research their services

Cited by 9 publications

References 167 publications

Dietary Supplementation with a Blend of Hydrolyzable and Condensed Tannins Ameliorates Diet-Induced Intestinal Inflammation in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Dietary Supplementation with a Blend of Hydrolyzable and Condensed Tannins Ameliorates Diet-Induced Intestinal Inflammation in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Insights into gene expression responses to infections in teleosts using microarray data: a systematic review

Development of a non-programmable sperm cryopreservation technique in dwarf surfclams Mulinia lateralis–a potential model species for bivalve research

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