PUBLICATION
Early appearance of pancreatic hormone-expressing cells in the zebrafish embryo
- Authors
- Argenton, F., Zecchin, E., and Bortolussi, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-991020-8
- Date
- 1999
- Source
- Mechanisms of Development 87(1-2): 217-221 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Argenton, Francesco, Bortolussi, Marino, Zecchin, Elisabetta
- Keywords
- osteichthyes; Danio rerio; embryo; development; floor plate; dorsal endoderm; midline; differentiation; pancreas; islet; insulin; glucagon; somatostatin; pdx1; cDNA; confocal microscopy; in situ hybridization; immunohistochemistry
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Gene Expression*
- Glucagon/metabolism*
- Homeodomain Proteins*
- In Situ Hybridization
- Insulin/metabolism*
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Pancreas/embryology
- Pancreas/metabolism*
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Somatostatin/metabolism*
- Time Factors
- Trans-Activators/metabolism
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 10495291 Full text @ Mech. Dev.
Citation
Argenton, F., Zecchin, E., and Bortolussi, M. (1999) Early appearance of pancreatic hormone-expressing cells in the zebrafish embryo. Mechanisms of Development. 87(1-2):217-221.
Abstract
Adult pancreatic islets comprise four cell types, alpha, beta, delta and PP, expressing glucagon, insulin, somatostatin and pancreatic-polypeptide, respectively, arising from cell lineages whose relationships during endocrine pancreas differentiation are still uncertain [Edlund, 1998. Diabetes 47, 1817-1823]. As zebrafish (Danio rerio) represents an attractive vertebrate model to study mutants affecting pancreatic organogenesis [Pack et al., 1996. Development 123, 321-328], we have investigated the expression patterns of islet hormones in zebrafish embryos, from the 16-somite (17 h) to 48-h stages, by whole-mount in situ hybridization and immunofluorescence. Results showed that in the zebrafish pancreatic primordium (a) insulin is the first hormone gene to be expressed, and (b) somatostatin colocalizes with insulin while glucagon-expressing cells, since their appearance, are distinct from insulin- or insulin/somatostatin-expressing cells. notably, both somatostatin and glucagon, but not insulin, are first expressed in extrapancreatic regions.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping