PUBLICATION

The role of vasculature and blood circulation in zebrafish swimbladder development

Authors

Winata, C.L., Korzh, S., Kondrychyn, I., Korzh, V., and Gong, Z.

ID

ZDB-PUB-100119-7

Date

2010

Source

BMC Developmental Biology 10: 3 (Journal)

Registered Authors

Gong, Zhiyuan, Kondrychyn, Igor, Korzh, Svitlana, Korzh, Vladimir, Winata, Cecilia Lanny

Keywords

none

MeSH Terms

Troponin T/metabolism
Air Sacs/blood supply*
Air Sacs/embryology*
Zebrafish/embryology*
Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism
Animals
Blood Circulation
Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
Animals, Genetically Modified
Endothelial Cells/metabolism

PubMed

20074335 Full text @ BMC Dev. Biol.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Recently we have performed a detailed analysis of early development of zebrafish swimbladder, a homologous organ of tetrapod lung; however, the events of swimbladder development are still poorly characterized. Many studies have implicated the role of vascular system in development of many organs in vertebrates. As the swimbladder is lined with an intricate network of blood capillaries, it is of interest to investigate the role of the vascular system during early development of swimbladder. RESULTS: To investigate the role of endothelial cells (ECs) and blood circulation during development of the swimbladder, phenotypes of swimbladder were analysed at three different stages (~2, 3 and 5 dpf [day postfertilization]) of swimbladder development in cloche (clo) mutant and Tnnt2 morphants, in the background of transgenic lines Et(krt4:EGFP)sq33-2 and Et(krt4:EGFP)sqet3 which express EGFP in the swimbladder epithelium and outer mesothelium respectively. Analyses of the three tissue layers of the swimbladder were performed using molecular markers hb9, fgf10a, acta2, and anxa5 to distinguish epithelium, mesenchyme, and outer mesothelium. We showed that the budding stage was independent of ECs and blood flow, while early epithelial growth, mesenchymal organization and its differentiation into smooth muscle, as well as outer mesothelial organization, were dependent on ECs. Blood circulation contributed to later stage of epithelial growth, smooth muscle differentiation, and organization of the outer mesothelium. Inflation of the swimbladder was also affected as a result of absence of ECs and blood flow. CONCLUSION: Our data demonstrated that the vascular system, though not essential in swimbladder budding, plays an important role in the development of the swimbladder starting from the early growth stage, including mesenchyme organization and smooth muscle differentiation, and outer mesothelial organization, which in turn may be essential for the function of the swimbladder reflected in its eventual inflation.

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