PUBLICATION
Pilocarpine Induced Behavioral and Biochemical Alterations in Chronic Seizure-Like Condition in Adult Zebrafish
- Authors
- Paudel, Y.N., Kumari, Y., Abidin, S.A.Z., Othman, I., Shaikh, M.F.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-200422-56
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21(7): (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- cognition, inflammation, pilocarpine, proteomics, seizure, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Chromatography, Liquid
- Disease Models, Animal
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects
- Gene Regulatory Networks/drug effects*
- Male
- NF-kappa B/genetics
- Neurotransmitter Agents/metabolism
- Pilocarpine/administration & dosage
- Pilocarpine/adverse effects*
- Proteomics/methods*
- Seizures/chemically induced
- Seizures/genetics*
- Seizures/metabolism
- Tandem Mass Spectrometry
- Zebrafish
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 32260203 Full text @ Int. J. Mol. Sci.
Citation
Paudel, Y.N., Kumari, Y., Abidin, S.A.Z., Othman, I., Shaikh, M.F. (2020) Pilocarpine Induced Behavioral and Biochemical Alterations in Chronic Seizure-Like Condition in Adult Zebrafish. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(7):.
Abstract
Epilepsy is a devastating neurological condition exhibited by repeated spontaneous and unpredictable seizures afflicting around 70 million people globally. The basic pathophysiology of epileptic seizures is still elusive, reflecting an extensive need for further research. Developing a novel animal model is crucial in understanding disease mechanisms as well as in assessing the therapeutic target. Most of the pre-clinical epilepsy research has been focused on rodents. Nevertheless, zebrafish disease models are relevant to human disease pathophysiology hence are gaining increased attention nowadays. The current study for the very first time developed a pilocarpine-induced chronic seizure-like condition in adult zebrafish and investigated the modulation in several neuroinflammatory genes and neurotransmitters after pilocarpine exposures. Seizure score analysis suggests that compared to a single dose, repeated dose pilocarpine produces chronic seizure-like effects maintaining an average seizure score of above 2 each day for a minimum of 10 days. Compared to the single dose pilocarpine treated group, there was increased mRNA expression of HMGB1, TLR4, TNF-α, IL-1, BDNF, CREB-1, and NPY; whereas decreased expression of NF-κB was upon the repeated dose of pilocarpine administration. In addition, the epileptic group demonstrates modulation in neurotransmitters levels such as GABA, Glutamate, and Acetylcholine. Moreover, proteomic profiling of the zebrafish brain from the normal and epileptic groups from LCMS/MS quantification detected 77 and 13 proteins in the normal and epileptic group respectively. Summing up, the current investigation depicted that chemically induced seizures in zebrafish demonstrated behavioral and molecular alterations similar to classical rodent seizure models suggesting the usability of adult zebrafish as a robust model to investigate epileptic seizures.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping