Project description:Recently, omics techniques have been widely applied to the discovery of potential bio-markers and explore triggering mechanism. To get a more comprehensive diagnosis of HBCD impacts on marine medaka (Oryzias melastigma), the larvae (within 24 hours post-hatch) were exposed to gradient doses of HBCD. After exposure for 7 days, the profiles of genes expression were examined using a custom-commercial 26, 430-oligonucleotide arrays (4×44K) of Japanese medaka which is shared much genomic information with marine medaka.At the end of the treatment period, 30 larvae/sample were pooled for RNA extraction and labeled by One-Color. A total of twelve independent arrays: three control (DMSO), three low-concentration HBCD (0.2 nM) exposures, three medium-concentration HBCD (2 nM) exposures, and three high-concentration HBCD (20 nM) exposures.
Project description:Recently, omics techniques have been widely applied to the discovery of potential bio-markers and explore triggering mechanism. To get a more comprehensive diagnosis of HBCD impacts on marine medaka (Oryzias melastigma), the larvae (within 24 hours post-hatch) were exposed to gradient doses of HBCD. After exposure for 7 days, the profiles of genes expression were examined using a custom-commercial 26, 430-oligonucleotide arrays (4M-CM-^W44K) of Japanese medaka which is shared much genomic information with marine medaka.At the end of the treatment period, 30 larvae/sample were pooled for RNA extraction and labeled by One-Color. A total of twelve independent arrays: three control (DMSO), three low-concentration HBCD (0.2 nM) exposures, three medium-concentration HBCD (2 nM) exposures, and three high-concentration HBCD (20 nM) exposures. The larvae of marine medaka (within 24 hours post-hatch) were exposed to to 0 (control), 0.2nM, 2nM and 20nM of HBCD (dimethyl sulfoxide with a final concentration of 1:30000 v/v water) for 7 days. Each HBCD treatment had three replicates with 100 larvae for each Petri dish. At the end of the treatment period, 30 larvae/sample were pooled for RNA extraction. A total of twelve independent arrays: three control (DMSO), three low-concentration HBCD (0.2 nM) exposures, three medium-concentration HBCD (2 nM) exposures, and three high-concentration HBCD (20 nM) exposures.
Project description:Triphenyl phosphate (TPhP) is a widely used organophosphate flame retardant and plasticizer, raising concerns over its health impacts. This study examined the effects of embryonic TPhP exposure on axial skeletal development and metabolism in medaka (Oryzias latipes), a vertebrate fish model relevant to human bone biology. Medaka embryos were exposed to 1 µM TPhP and assessed through early larval stages. TPhP impaired vertebral ossification, causing shortened centra and reduced cartilage in the caudal complex, alongside disrupted distribution of osteoblast-lineage cells. Key osteogenic genes were significantly downregulated at 14 days post-fertilization, and transcriptomic analysis revealed altered mitochondrial pathways linked to skeletal disorders. Functionally, TPhP-exposed larvae showed reduced caudal fin regeneration and decreased metabolic rate and oxygen consumption, consistent with mitochondrial dysfunction. These findings indicate that TPhP disrupts bone development and metabolism by affecting osteoblast differentiation and mitochondrial regulation, highlighting the value of small fish models for studying environmental toxicants and bone metabolic disease risk.
Project description:Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon associated with developmental and neurobehavioral toxicity. This study examined whether parental BaP exposure produces transcriptional changes in the brains of unexposed adult first filial generation (F1) Japanese medaka. Adult parental fish were exposed to solvent control or 1 µg/L BaP for 21 days; eggs were collected after exposure and F1 offspring were reared in clean water. Whole brains from three control-lineage and three BaP-lineage adult males were analyzed by single-nucleus RNA sequencing. Fourteen transcriptionally distinct brain cell populations were resolved, and treatment-associated differential expression was evaluated within each cluster.