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Behavioral and Gene Regulatory Responses to Developmental Drug Exposures in Zebrafish.

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cam.issuedOnline2022-01-10
dc.contributor.authorMech, Aleksandra M
dc.contributor.authorMerteroglu, Munise
dc.contributor.authorSealy, Ian M
dc.contributor.authorTeh, Muy-Teck
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Richard J
dc.contributor.authorHavelange, William
dc.contributor.authorBrennan, Caroline H
dc.contributor.authorBusch-Nentwich, Elisabeth M
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-28T16:44:34Z
dc.date.available2022-01-28T16:44:34Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.submitted2021-10-14
dc.date.updated2022-01-28T16:44:33Z
dc.description.abstractDevelopmental consequences of prenatal drug exposure have been reported in many human cohorts and animal studies. The long-lasting impact on the offspring-including motor and cognitive impairments, cranial and cardiac anomalies and increased prevalence of ADHD-is a socioeconomic burden worldwide. Identifying the molecular changes leading to developmental consequences could help ameliorate the deficits and limit the impact. In this study, we have used zebrafish, a well-established behavioral and genetic model with conserved drug response and reward pathways, to identify changes in behavior and cellular pathways in response to developmental exposure to amphetamine, nicotine or oxycodone. In the presence of the drug, exposed animals showed altered behavior, consistent with effects seen in mammalian systems, including impaired locomotion and altered habituation to acoustic startle. Differences in responses seen following acute and chronic exposure suggest adaptation to the presence of the drug. Transcriptomic analysis of exposed larvae revealed differential expression of numerous genes and alterations in many pathways, including those related to cell death, immunity and circadian rhythm regulation. Differential expression of circadian rhythm genes did not correlate with behavioral changes in the larvae, however, two of the circadian genes, arntl2 and per2, were also differentially expressed at later stages of development, suggesting a long-lasting impact of developmental exposures on circadian gene expression. The immediate-early genes, egr1, egr4, fosab, and junbb, which are associated with synaptic plasticity, were downregulated by all three drugs and in situ hybridization showed that the expression for all four genes was reduced across all neuroanatomical regions, including brain regions implicated in reward processing, addiction and other psychiatric conditions. We anticipate that these early changes in gene expression in response to drug exposure are likely to contribute to the consequences of prenatal exposure and their discovery might pave the way to therapeutic intervention to ameliorate the long-lasting deficits.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.80712
dc.identifier.eissn1664-0640
dc.identifier.issn1664-0640
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/333289
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Media SA
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.795175
dc.subjectRNA-seq
dc.subjectaddiction
dc.subjectamphetamine
dc.subjectbehavior
dc.subjectdevelopmental exposure
dc.subjectnicotine
dc.subjectoxycodone
dc.subjectzebrafish
dc.titleBehavioral and Gene Regulatory Responses to Developmental Drug Exposures in Zebrafish.
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-11-29
prism.publicationNameFront Psychiatry
prism.volume12
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.3389/fpsyt.2021.795175

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