PUBLICATION
Evaluation of the Hair Cell Regeneration in Zebrafish Larvae by Measuring and Quantifying the Startle Responses
- Authors
- Wang, C., Zhong, Z., Sun, P., Zhong, H., Li, H., Chen, F.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170303-8
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- Neural Plasticity 2017: 8283075 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Chen, Fangyi, Sun, Peng, Zhong, Hanbing
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Acoustic Stimulation/methods
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal*
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/pathology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/physiology*
- Larva
- Neomycin/administration & dosage
- Reflex, Startle*/drug effects
- Regeneration*
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 28250994 Full text @ Neural Plast.
Citation
Wang, C., Zhong, Z., Sun, P., Zhong, H., Li, H., Chen, F. (2017) Evaluation of the Hair Cell Regeneration in Zebrafish Larvae by Measuring and Quantifying the Startle Responses. Neural Plasticity. 2017:8283075.
Abstract
The zebrafish has become an established model organism for the study of hearing and balance systems in the past two decades. The classical approach to examine hair cells is to use dye to conduct selective staining, which shows the number and morphology of hair cells but does not reveal their function. Startle response is a behavior closely related to the auditory function of hair cells; therefore it can be used to measure the function of hair cells. In this study, we developed a device to measure the startle response of zebrafish larvae. By applying various levels of stimulus, it showed that the system can discern a 10 dB difference. The hair cell in zebrafish can regenerate after damage due to noise exposure or drug treatment. With this device, we measured the startle response of zebrafish larvae during and after drug treatment. The results show a similar trend to the classical hair cell staining method. The startle response was reduced with drug treatment and recovered after removal of the drug. Together it demonstrated the capability of this behavioral assay in evaluating the hair cell functions of fish larvae and its potential as a high-throughput screening tool for auditory-related gene and drug discovery.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping