Effects of exposure to atrazine on retinoid signaling in zebrafish
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- Subject Areas
- Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science, Environmental Sciences, Toxicology
- Keywords
- Retinoid signaling, Atrazine, Zebrafish
- Copyright
- © 2017 Fan et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. Effects of exposure to atrazine on retinoid signaling in zebrafish. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2880v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2880v1
Abstract
Atrazine is a widely used herbicide developed for use in range and pastureland. It is present in many surface waters, contaminating nontarget organisms due to its persistence. In this study, the effects of acute exposure to atrazine on retinoid signaling were investigated in zebrafish. Zebrafish embryos were exposed to atrazine from 6 hours post-fertilization (hpf) to 120 hpf. The contents of retinal and retinoic acid were decreased significantly. The mRNA expression levels of retinal dehydrogenase (raldh2), retinol dehydrogenase (rdh1), retinol binding protein (rbp1a), retinoic acid receptor subunit (raraa), and cellular retinoic acid binding protein (crabp1a and crabp2a) were significantly reduced, which indicated that retinoid signaling was interrupted. However, the transcriptional levels of five opsin genes (zfrho, zfuv, zfred, zfblue, and zfgr1) were increased. These results indicated that exposure to atrazine could inhibit retinoid signaling and impair the eye development of zebrafish larvae.
Author Comment
This is a research article focusing on the effect of atrazine on zebrafish retinal signaling.