Zebrafish as a systems toxicology model for developmental neurotoxicity testing

The developing brain is extremely sensitive to many chemicals. Exposure to neurotoxicants during development has been implicated in various neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, including autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease...

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Published in:Congenital anomalies 2015-02, Vol.55 (1), p.1-16
Main Authors: Nishimura, Yuhei, Murakami, Soichiro, Ashikawa, Yoshifumi, Sasagawa, Shota, Umemoto, Noriko, Shimada, Yasuhito, Tanaka, Toshio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ADME
Animals
Autism
Central Nervous System - drug effects
Central Nervous System - embryology
Central Nervous System - growth & development
developmental neurotoxicity
Drug Evaluation, Preclinical
Gene expression
Gene Expression Profiling
Humans
Neurogenesis - drug effects
Neurotoxicity
Neurotoxicity Syndromes - prevention & control
systems toxicology
Toxicology
Zebrafish
Zebrafish Proteins - genetics
Zebrafish Proteins - metabolism
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Summary:The developing brain is extremely sensitive to many chemicals. Exposure to neurotoxicants during development has been implicated in various neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, including autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease. Although rodents have been widely used for developmental neurotoxicity testing, experiments using large numbers of rodents are time‐consuming, expensive, and raise ethical concerns. Using alternative non‐mammalian animal models may relieve some of these pressures by allowing testing of large numbers of subjects while reducing expenses and minimizing the use of mammalian subjects. In this review, we discuss some of the advantages of using zebrafish in developmental neurotoxicity testing, focusing on central nervous system development, neurobehavior, toxicokinetics, and toxicodynamics in this species. We also describe some important examples of developmental neurotoxicity testing using zebrafish combined with gene expression profiling, neuroimaging, or neurobehavioral assessment. Zebrafish may be a systems toxicology model that has the potential to reveal the pathways of developmental neurotoxicity and to provide a sound basis for human risk assessments.
ISSN:0914-3505
1741-4520
DOI:10.1111/cga.12079