Journal
NEUROTOXICOLOGY AND TERATOLOGY
Volume 68, Issue -, Pages 91-96Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2018.05.005
Keywords
FASO; Embryonic alcohol; Ethanol; Glutamate; Aspartate; Glycine; Taurine; GABA; Zebrafish
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- NIH/NIAAA [R01 AA14357-01A2]
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The zebrafish has been successfully employed to model and study the effects of embryonic alcohol exposure. Short exposure to low alcohol concentrations during embryonic development has been shown to significantly disrupt social behavior as well as the dopaminergic and serotoninergic systems in zebrafish. However, analysis of potential effects of embryonic alcohol exposure on other amino acid neurotransmitter systems has not been performed. Here we analyzed neurochemicals obtained from adult AB and TU strain zebrafish that were immersed in 0.00% (control), 0.25%, 0.50%, 0.75% or 1.00% alcohol solution (vol/vol%) at 24 h post-fertilization for 2 h. From whole brain extracts, we quantified glutamate, aspartate, glycine, taurine and GABA levels using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). We found embryonic alcohol exposure not to have any significant effect on the levels of glutamate, aspartate, glycine and GABA in both AB and TU zebrafish. AB zebrafish showed a significant elevation of taurine levels, but only in the highest alcohol dose group compared to control. These results, albeit mainly negative, together with prior findings suggest that behavioral abnormalities resulting from embryonic alcohol exposure described before for AB zebrafish may primarily be due to altered dopaminergic and serotoninergic mechanisms. Furthermore, a Principal Component Analysis conducted with all neurochemicals tested in this and in our prior study, found a strain-dependent correlation structure response to embryonic alcohol treatment, confirming that embryonic alcohol effects may be genotype dependent.
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