PUBLICATION
Caloric restriction and physical activity in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
- Authors
- Novak, C.M., Jiang, X., Wang, C., Teske, J.A., Kotz, C.M., and Levine, J.A.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-050607-19
- Date
- 2005
- Source
- Neuroscience letters 383(1-2): 99-104 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- Locomotor activity; Food restriction; Fasting; Orexin; Preproorexin mRNA
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal/physiology*
- Blotting, Northern
- Body Weight/physiology
- Brain/metabolism
- Caloric Restriction*
- Gene Expression/physiology
- Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics
- Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism
- Motor Activity/physiology*
- Neuropeptides/genetics
- Neuropeptides/metabolism
- Orexins
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- Random Allocation
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
- Starvation/metabolism
- Time Factors
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 15936519 Full text @ Neurosci. Lett.
Citation
Novak, C.M., Jiang, X., Wang, C., Teske, J.A., Kotz, C.M., and Levine, J.A. (2005) Caloric restriction and physical activity in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Neuroscience letters. 383(1-2):99-104.
Abstract
Understanding the mechanism of energy flux may be critical for explaining how obesity has emerged as a public health epidemic. It is known that changes in caloric intake predictably alter physical activity levels (PA) in mammals. Here, our goal was to test the hypothesis that fasting induces a biphasic pattern of change in PA by measuring PA before and after long-term food deprivation in zebrafish. Compared to control-fed fish, food-deprived fish showed a significant increase in PA levels during the first 2 days of food deprivation. Subsequently, however, fasted fish showed a significant chronic decrease in PA compared to fish fed at weight-maintenance levels. These data are comparable to those seen with mammals, which also show a biphasic response of PA to caloric restriction. In a separate group of fish, long-term food deprivation, associated with decreases in PA, induced a significant increase in brain preproorexin mRNA levels compared to fed controls. No change in orexin mRNA was seen after 2 days of food deprivation. The finding that orexin mRNA expression is altered only after long-term starvation suggests that orexin may be coupled with the changes in PA seen at this time. Thus, the association between negative energy balance and reductions in PA occurs across genera in biology and is associated with predictable neurological changes in brain gene expression.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping