Zebrafish models for personalized psychiatry: Insights from individual, strain and sex differences, and modeling gene x environment interactions

AD Volgin, OA Yakovlev, KA Demin… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Currently becoming widely recognized, personalized psychiatry focuses on unique
physiological and genetic profiles of patients to best tailor their therapy. However, the role of …

Studying the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease using zebrafish

LM Barnhill, H Murata, JM Bronstein - Biomedicines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder leading to severe disability.
The clinical features reflect progressive neuronal loss, especially involving the dopaminergic …

Sex-specific differences in zebrafish brains

G Zhai, J Jia, C Bereketoglu, Z Yin, A Pradhan - Biology of sex Differences, 2022 - Springer
In this systematic review, we highlight the differences between the male and female
zebrafish brains to understand their differentiation and their use in studying sex-specific …

[HTML][HTML] Gonadal sex vs genetic sex in experimental atherosclerosis

J Nour, F Bonacina, GD Norata - Atherosclerosis, 2023 - Elsevier
Epidemiological data and interventional studies with hormone replacement therapy suggest
that women, at least until menopause, are at decreased cardiovascular risk compared to …

Transcriptomic Point of Departure (tPOD) of androstenedione in zebrafish embryos as a potential surrogate for chronic endpoints

F Essfeld, SU Ayobahan, J Strompen, J Alvincz… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The transcriptomic Point of Departure (tPOD) is increasingly used in ecotoxicology
to derive quantitative endpoints from RNA sequencing studies. Utilizing transcriptomic data …

[HTML][HTML] Zebrafish cyp17a1 knockout reveals that androgen-mediated signaling is important for male brain sex differentiation

T Shu, G Zhai, A Pradhan, PE Olsson, Z Yin - General and comparative …, 2020 - Elsevier
Brain sex differentiation is a complex process, wherein genes and steroid hormones act to
induce specific gender brain differentiation. Testosterone (T) derived from the gonads has …

Where the ends meet: an overview of sex determination in atheriniform fishes

CA Strüssmann, Y Yamamoto, RS Hattori… - Sexual …, 2021 - karger.com
Atheriniform fishes have recently emerged as attractive models for evolutionary, ecological,
and molecular/physiological studies on sex determination. Many species in this group have …

The effects of 17α‐methyltestosterone on gonadal histology and gene expression along hypothalamic‐pituitary‐gonadal axis, germ cells, sex determination, and …

M Li, N Zhang, Y Huang, CG Pan, Z Dong… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As a synthetic androgen, 17α‐methyltestosterone (MT) is widely used in aquaculture to
induce sex reversal and may pose a potential risk to aquatic organisms. This ecological risk …

Effects of fasting on the central expression of appetite-regulating and reproductive hormones in wild-type and Casper zebrafish (Danio rerio)

S London, H Volkoff - General and comparative endocrinology, 2019 - Elsevier
Appetite and reproduction are closely related functions that are both regulated by brain
hormones. Appetite stimulators include orexin and neuropeptide Y (NPY), and reproductive …

Phylogenetic and expression analysis of Fos transcription factors in zebrafish

K Kubra, GK Gaddu, C Liongue, S Heidary… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Members of the FOS protein family regulate gene expression responses to a multitude of
extracellular signals and are dysregulated in several pathological states. Whilst mouse …