PUBLICATION
Fish to learn: insights into the effects of environmental chemicals on eye development and visual function in zebrafish
- Authors
- Huang, W., Wu, T., Wu, R., Peng, J., Zhang, Q., Shi, X., Wu, K.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-230518-27
- Date
- 2023
- Source
- Environmental science and pollution research international 30(29): 73018-73030 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Wu, Kusheng
- Keywords
- Congenital visual impairment, Developmental toxicity, Environmental chemical, Eye development, Visual function, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Female
- Humans
- Mammals
- Organogenesis
- Placenta
- Plastics*
- Pregnancy
- Vision Disorders
- Zebrafish*
- PubMed
- 37195602 Full text @ Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. Int.
Citation
Huang, W., Wu, T., Wu, R., Peng, J., Zhang, Q., Shi, X., Wu, K. (2023) Fish to learn: insights into the effects of environmental chemicals on eye development and visual function in zebrafish. Environmental science and pollution research international. 30(29):73018-73030.
Abstract
Vision is the most essential sense system for the human being. Congenital visual impairment affects millions of people globally. It is increasingly realized that visual system development is an impressionable target of environmental chemicals. However, due to inaccessibility and ethical issues, the use of humans and other placental mammals is constrained, which limits our better understanding of environmental factors on ocular development and visual function in the embryonic stage. Therefore, as complementing laboratory rodents, zebrafish has been the most frequently employed to understand the effects of environmental chemicals on eye development and visual function. One of the major reasons for the increasing use of zebrafish is their polychromatic vision. Zebrafish retinas are morphologically and functionally analogous to those of mammalian, as well as evolutionary conservation among vertebrate eye. This review provides an update on harmful effects from exposure to environmental chemicals, involving metallic elements (ions), metal-derived nanoparticles, microplastics, nanoplastics, persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, and pharmaceutical pollutants on the eye development and visual function in zebrafish embryos. The collected data provide a comprehensive understanding of environmental factors on ocular development and visual function. This report highlights that zebrafish is promising as a model to identify hazardous toxicants toward eye development and is hopeful for developing preventative or postnatal therapies for human congenital visual impairment.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping