Ottinger, Christopher A Smith, Cheyenne R Blazer, Vicki S
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Fish & shellfish immunology
Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) are used as an indicator species in environmental monitoring and assessment studies. However, laboratory-based studies for methods development and effector assessment are limited for this species. Nutrition, a known modulator of teleost physiological responses including immune function, is a critical knowledge...
Maruska, Karen P Sohn, Young Chang Fernald, Russell D
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General and comparative endocrinology
The highly conserved brain-pituitary-gonadal (BPG) axis controls reproduction in all vertebrates, so analyzing the regulation of this signaling cascade is important for understanding reproductive competence. The protein kinase mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) functions as a conserved regulator of cellular growth and metabolism in all eukaryot...
Bloch, Solal Froc, Cynthia Pontiggia, Anaïs Yamamoto, Kei
Operant conditioning is a powerful tool to study animal perception and cognition. Compared to mammals and birds, there are very few behavioral studies using operant conditioning paradigm in teleosts. Here we aim to establish matching-to-sample task (MTS) in adult zebrafish, using visual cues (colors) as discriminative stimuli. Unlike simple one-to-...
Milinkovitch, Thomas Antognarelli, Fabio Lacroix, Camille Marras, Stefano Satta, Andrea Le Floch, Stéphane Domenici, Paolo
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Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Hydrocarbons contamination and hypoxia are two stressors that can coexist in coastal ecosystems. At present, few studies evaluated the combined impact of these stressors on fish physiology and behavior. Here, we tested the effect of the combination of hypoxia and petrogenic hydrocarbons on the anti-predator locomotor performance of fish. Specifical...
Jeffrey, Jennifer D Jeffries, Ken M Suski, Cory D
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Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part D, Genomics & proteomics
Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) are invasive to North America, and their range has expanded within the Mississippi River Basin, seemingly unchecked, since their introduction in the late 1970s, with the exception of the upper reaches of the Illinois River. With the imminent threat of their movement into the Great Lakes, the goal of the pre...
Zhong, Bin Jiang, Zeyin Chen, Zhenhuang Ishihara, Kazue Mao, Huilin Wang, Shanghong Lin, Gang Hu, Chengyu
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Fish & shellfish immunology
Recently, studies have shown that IκB kinase β (IKKβ), a critical kinase in the nucleus factor kappa-B (NF-κB) pathway, participates in inflammatory responses associated with unfolded protein response (UPR) and plays an important role in ER stress-induced cell death. The unfolded protein response (UPR), which is a regulatory system to restore cellu...
Pereiro, Patricia Figueras, Antonio Novoa, Beatriz
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Fish & shellfish immunology
Interferon-gamma (IFN-ϒ) is probably one of the most relevant cytokines orchestrating the immune response in vertebrates. Although the activities mediated by this molecule are well known in mammals, several aspects of the IFN-ϒ system in teleosts remain a riddle to scientists. Numerous studies support a potentially similar role of the fish IFN-ϒ si...
Leal, Yeny Velazquez, Janet Hernandez, Liz Swain, Jaya Kumari Rodríguez, Alianet Rodríguez Martínez, Rebeca García, Claudia Ramos, Yassel Estrada, Mario Pablo Carpio, Yamila
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Fish & shellfish immunology
The development of vaccines employing conserved protein antigens, for instance ribosomal protein P0, has as disadvantage the high degree of identity between pathogen and host proteins due to possible induction of tolerance or auto antibodies in the host organism. To overcome this drawback, peptide-based vaccines have been designed with a proved hig...
Qin, Zhendong Vijayaraman, Sarath Babu Lin, Hanzuo Dai, Yunjia Zhao, Lijuan Xie, Jungang Lin, Weiqiang Wu, Zaohe Li, Jun Lin, Li
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Fish & shellfish immunology
Red blood cells (RBCs) are widely accepted as their primary function in respiration. Recent studies in mammals have revealed a vital role in immune responses of RBCs; however, little is known about immune function of teleost erythrocytes. Here we demonstrated that RBCs from grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) were capable of binding and aggregatin...
Korytář, Tomáš Wiegertjes, Geert F. Zusková, Eliška Tomanová, Anna Lisnerová, Martina Patra, Sneha Sieranski, Viktor Šíma, Radek Born-Torrijos, Ana Wentzel, Annelieke S.
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundSphaerospora molnari is a myxozoan parasite causing skin and gill sphaerosporosis in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in central Europe. For most myxozoans, little is known about the early development and the expansion of the infection in the fish host, prior to spore formation. A major reason for this lack of information is the absence of l...
