PUBLICATION
Zebrafish heart regenerates after chemoptogenetic cardiomyocyte depletion
- Authors
- Missinato, M.A., Zuppo, D.A., Watkins, S.C., Bruchez, M.P., Tsang, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-210128-23
- Date
- 2021
- Source
- Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 250(7): 986-1000 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Tsang, Michael
- Keywords
- Zebrafish (Danio rerio), cardiomyocyte, chemoptogenetic depletion, heart regeneration, macrophages, ventricular apex amputation
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Cell Proliferation/physiology
- Fluorescent Dyes/adverse effects
- Fluorescent Dyes/chemistry
- Fluorescent Dyes/radiation effects
- Heart/drug effects
- Heart/physiology*
- Heart Injuries/chemically induced
- Heart Injuries/pathology
- Heart Injuries/physiopathology*
- Infrared Rays/adverse effects
- Myocytes, Cardiac/pathology
- Regeneration/physiology*
- Rosaniline Dyes/adverse effects
- Rosaniline Dyes/chemistry
- Rosaniline Dyes/radiation effects
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 33501711 Full text @ Dev. Dyn.
Citation
Missinato, M.A., Zuppo, D.A., Watkins, S.C., Bruchez, M.P., Tsang, M. (2021) Zebrafish heart regenerates after chemoptogenetic cardiomyocyte depletion. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 250(7):986-1000.
Abstract
Background Zebrafish can regenerate adult cardiac tissue following injuries from ventricular apex amputation, cryoinjury, and cardiomyocyte genetic ablation. Here, we characterize cardiac regeneration from cardiomyocyte chemoptogenetic ablation caused by localized near-infrared excited photosensitizer-mediated Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) generation.
Results Exposure of transgenic adult zebrafish, Tg(myl7:fapdl5-cerulean), to di-iodinated derivative of the cell- permeable Malachite Green ester fluorogen (MG-2I) and whole-body illumination with 660nm light resulted in cytotoxic damage to about 30% of cardiac tissue. After chemoptogenetic cardiomyocyte ablation, heart function was compromised, and macrophage infiltration was detected, but epicardial and endocardial activation response was much muted when compared to ventricular amputation. The spared cardiomyocytes underwent proliferation and restored the heart structure and function in 45-60 days after ablation.
Conclusions This cardiomyocyte ablation system did not appear to activate the epicardium and endocardium as is noted in other cardiac injury models. This approach represents a useful model to study specifically cardiomyocyte injury, proliferation and regeneration in the absence of whole organ activation. Moreover, this system can be adapted to ablate distinct cell populations in any organ system to study their function in regeneration. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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