Journal
PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 208, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.101993
Keywords
Anxiety; Depression; Social interactions; Social isolation; Translational models; Zebrafish
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Funding
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior - Brazil (CAPES) at the University of Portsmouth, UK [001]
- CNPq [305051/2018-0]
- FAPERGS Programa Pesquisador Gaucho - PQG fellowship grant [19/2551-0001764-2]
- PROEX/CAPES fellowship grant [23038.005450/2020-19]
- Southwest University Zebrafish Platform Construction Funds
- Special Rector's Fellowship for SPSU PhD Students
- Russian Science Foundation (RSF) [19-15-00053]
- St. Petersburg State University [51130521]
- RSF [20-65-46006]
- Foundation for Liver Research (UK)
- Alzheimer's Research UK
- INTERREG (EU)
- Russian Science Foundation [19-15-00053] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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Social behavior plays a crucial role in maintaining health and wellbeing, while dysfunctional interactions pose risks for physical and psychiatric disorders. Despite extensive research on the effects of positive and negative social interactions, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Zebrafish, with well-characterized social behavior phenotypes and genetic similarities to humans, offer a promising model for studying the fundamental mechanisms of social interactions.
Social behavior represents a beneficial interaction between conspecifics that is critical for maintaining health and wellbeing. Dysfunctional or poor social interaction are associated with increased risk of physical (e.g., vascular) and psychiatric disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, and substance abuse). Although the impact of negative and positive social interactions is well-studied, their underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Zebrafish have well-characterized social behavior phenotypes, high genetic homology with humans, relative experimental simplicity and the potential for high-throughput screens. Here, we discuss the use of zebrafish as a candidate model organism for studying the fundamental mechanisms underlying social interactions, as well as potential impacts of social isolation on human health and wellbeing. Overall, the growing utility of zebrafish models may improve our understanding of how the presence and absence of social interactions can differentially modulate various molecular and physiological biomarkers, as well as a wide range of other behaviors.
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