کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
9113115 1156209 2005 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Effects of thyroid hormone on the development of immune system in zebrafish
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی علوم غدد
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Effects of thyroid hormone on the development of immune system in zebrafish
چکیده انگلیسی
Effects of thyroxine (T4) and methimazole (MMI) on the development of the zebrafish immune system were investigated using continuous immersion treatment experiments. The effects of the treatments on thymus development were determined using computer-aided thymus morphometric analyses on in situ hybridization serial sections of the thymus while the effects on immune-related gene expression levels were monitored using quantitative real-time PCR. The findings indicate that thymus development and thymopoiesis, as indicated by thymus size, thymus Rag-1-positive region, and TCRAC expression level, were affected by T4 and MMI-treatments. With the exception of Ikaros, MMI-treated fish has lower immune-related gene expression levels, although it is not certain whether the effect resulted indirectly from the concomitant growth-retardation and/or directly from an effect on lymphopoiesis itself. The findings were comparable with those in mammalian system, thus providing the first evidence that the thyroid relationship with thymus development and lymphopoiesis is likely to be conserved from fish to higher vertebrates. It suggests the possibility of using zebrafish as a model system to investigate the molecular mechanisms involved in thyroid hormone-dependent disorders in the immune system.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology - Volume 142, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 325-335
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