PUBLICATION
Simultaneous screening of zebrafish larvae cardiac and respiratory functions: a microfluidic multi-phenotypic approach
- Authors
- Khalili, A., van Wijngaarden, E., Zoidl, G.R., Rezai, P.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-221124-3
- Date
- 2022
- Source
- Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro 14(7): 162-170 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Zoidl, Georg
- Keywords
- heavy metal screening, microfluidics, multi-fish microfluidic chip, multi-phenotypic screening, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cadmium Chloride
- Ethanol
- Larva
- Microfluidics*
- Zebrafish*
- PubMed
- 36416255 Full text @ Integr. Biol. (Camb)
Citation
Khalili, A., van Wijngaarden, E., Zoidl, G.R., Rezai, P. (2022) Simultaneous screening of zebrafish larvae cardiac and respiratory functions: a microfluidic multi-phenotypic approach. Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro. 14(7):162-170.
Abstract
Multi-phenotypic screening of multiple zebrafish larvae plays an important role in enhancing the quality and speed of biological assays. Many microfluidic platforms have been presented for zebrafish phenotypic assays, but multi-organ screening of multiple larvae, from different needed orientations, in a single device that can enable rapid and large-sample testing is yet to be achieved. Here, we propose a multi-phenotypic quadruple-fish microfluidic chip for simultaneous monitoring of heart activity and fin movement of 5-7-day postfertilization zebrafish larvae trapped in the chip. In each experiment, fin movements of four larvae were quantified in the dorsal view in terms of fin beat frequency (FBF). Positioning of four optical prisms next to the traps provided the lateral views of the four larvae and enabled heart rate (HR) monitoring. The device's functionality in chemical testing was validated by assessing the impacts of ethanol on heart and fin activities. Larvae treated with 3% ethanol displayed a significant drop of 13.2 and 35.8% in HR and FBF, respectively. Subsequent tests with cadmium chloride highlighted the novel application of our device for screening the effect of heavy metals on cardiac and respiratory function at the same time. Exposure to 5 $mu$g/l cadmium chloride revealed a significant increase of 8.2% and 39.2% in HR and FBF, respectively. The device can be employed to monitor multi-phenotypic behavioral responses of zebrafish larvae induced by chemical stimuli in various chemical screening assays, in applications such as ecotoxicology and drug discovery.
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Phenotype
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
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