Journal
FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 104, Issue -, Pages 391-401Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2020.06.025
Keywords
Apoptosis; Inflammatory response; Fatty liver injury; JNK pathway; Oreochromis niloticus
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China [BK20170218]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31702318]
- Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, CAFS [2019JBFM10, 2019JBFM11]
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Fatty liver injury (or disease) is a common disease in farmed fish, but its pathogenic mechanism is not fully understood. Therefore the present study aims to investigate high-fat diet (HFD)-induced liver injury and explore the underlying mechanism in fish. The tilapia were fed on control diet and HFD for 90 days, and then the blood and liver tissues were collected to determine biochemical parameter, gene expression and protein level. The results showed that HFD feeding signally increased the levels of plasma aminotransferases and pro-inflammatory factors after 60 days. In liver and plasma, HFD feeding significantly suppressed antioxidant ability, but enhanced lipid peroxidation formation, protein oxidation and DNA damage after 60 or 90 days. Further, the Nrf2 pathway and antioxidative function-related genes were adversely changed in liver of HFD-fed tilapia after 60 and/or 90 days. Meanwhile, HFD treatment induced apoptosis via initiating mitochondrial pathway in liver after 90 days. Furthermore, after 90 days of feeding, the expression of genes or proteins related to JNK pathway and TLRsMyd88-NF-kappa B pathway was clearly upregulated in HFD treatment. Similarly, the mRNA levels of inflammatory factors including tumor necrosis factor (TNF-alpha), interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), IL-6, IL-8 and IL-10 were also upregulated in liver of HFD-fed tilapia after 60 and/or 90 days. In conclusion, the current study suggested that HFD feeding impaired antioxidant defense system, induced apoptosis, enhanced inflammation and led to liver injury. The adverse influences of HFD in the liver might be due to the variation of Nrf2, JNK and TLRs-Myd88-NF-kappa B signaling pathways.
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