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Histopathologic Alterations Associated with Global Gene Expression Due to Chronic Dietary TCDD Exposure in Juvenile Zebrafish

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Title Histopathologic Alterations Associated with Global Gene Expression Due to Chronic Dietary TCDD Exposure in Juvenile Zebrafish
Names Liu, Qing (creator)
Spitsbergen, Jan M. (creator)
Cariou, Ronan (creator)
et al. (creator)
Date Issued 2014-07-02 (iso8601)
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Abstract The goal of this project was to investigate the effects and possible developmental disease implication of chronic dietary
TCDD exposure on global gene expression anchored to histopathologic analysis in juvenile zebrafish by functional genomic,
histopathologic and analytic chemistry methods. Specifically, juvenile zebrafish were fed Biodiet starter with TCDD added at
0, 0.1, 1, 10 and 100 ppb, and fish were sampled following 0, 7, 14, 28 and 42 d after initiation of the exposure. TCDD
accumulated in a dose- and time-dependent manner and 100 ppb TCDD caused TCDD accumulation in female (15.49 ppb)
and male (18.04 ppb) fish at 28 d post exposure. Dietary TCDD caused multiple lesions in liver, kidney, intestine and ovary
of zebrafish and functional dysregulation such as depletion of glycogen in liver, retrobulbar edema, degeneration of nasal
neurosensory epithelium, underdevelopment of intestine, and diminution in the fraction of ovarian follicles containing
vitellogenic oocytes. Importantly, lesions in nasal epithelium and evidence of endocrine disruption based on alternatively
spliced vasa transcripts are two novel and significant results of this study. Microarray gene expression analysis comparing
vehicle control to dietary TCDD revealed dysregulated genes involved in pathways associated with cardiac necrosis/cell
death, cardiac fibrosis, renal necrosis/cell death and liver necrosis/cell death. These baseline toxicological effects provide
evidence for the potential mechanisms of developmental dysfunctions induced by TCDD and vasa as a biomarker for
ovarian developmental disruption.
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Access Condition http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
Identifier Liu Q, Spitsbergen JM, Cariou R, Huang C-Y, Jiang N, et al. (2014) Histopathologic Alterations Associated with Global Gene Expression Due to Chronic Dietary TCDD Exposure in Juvenile Zebrafish. PLoS ONE 9(7): e100910. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100910

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