Influence of space flight conditions on phenotypes and function of nephritic immune cells of swordtail fish (Xiphophorus helleri)

Piepenbreier, K.; Renn, Jörg; Fischer, Robert U.; Goerlich, R.

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2005.05.077

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“…Various fish species, such as carp [ 26 ], goldfish [ 27 – 31 ], or cichlids [ 32 – 39 ] have been utilized in the past for evaluating the effects of altered gravity. More recently, smaller fishes such as swordtail [ 37 , 40 ], medaka [ 41 – 46 ] and zebrafish [ 47 – 51 ] have attracted more attention. Most analyses using fishes have concentrated on the impact of altered gravity on graviperception [ 33 , 52 ], the vestibular system [ 37 , 53 , 54 ] and its involvement in motion sickness [ 38 , 55 – 57 ].…”

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Zebrafish Bone and General Physiology Are Differently Affected by Hormones or Changes in Gravity

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Teleost fish such as zebrafish (Danio rerio) are increasingly used for physiological, genetic and developmental studies. Our understanding of the physiological consequences of altered gravity in an entire organism is still incomplete. We used altered gravity and drug treatment experiments to evaluate their effects specifically on bone formation and more generally on whole genome gene expression. By combining morphometric tools with an objective scoring system for the state of development for each element in the head skeleton and specific gene expression analysis, we confirmed and characterized in detail the decrease or increase of bone formation caused by a 5 day treatment (from 5dpf to 10 dpf) of, respectively parathyroid hormone (PTH) or vitamin D3 (VitD3). Microarray transcriptome analysis after 24 hours treatment reveals a general effect on physiology upon VitD3 treatment, while PTH causes more specifically developmental effects. Hypergravity (3g from 5dpf to 9 dpf) exposure results in a significantly larger head and a significant increase in bone formation for a subset of the cranial bones. Gene expression analysis after 24 hrs at 3g revealed differential expression of genes involved in the development and function of the skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine and cardiovascular systems. Finally, we propose a novel type of experimental approach, the "Reduced Gravity Paradigm", by keeping the developing larvae at 3g hypergravity for the first 5 days before returning them to 1g for one additional day. 5 days exposure to 3g during these early stages also caused increased bone formation, while gene expression analysis revealed a central network of regulatory genes (hes5, sox10, lgals3bp, egr1, edn1, fos, fosb, klf2, gadd45ba and socs3a) whose expression was consistently affected by the transition from hyper- to normal gravity.

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