Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1971937 | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 2015 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Interacting effects of feeding and stress on corticoid responses in fish were investigated in common carp fed 3.0% or 0.5% body mass (BM) which received no implant, a sham or a cortisol implant (250Â mg/kg BM) throughout a 168Â hour post-implant period (168Â h-PI). At 12Â h-PI, cortisol implants elevated plasma cortisol, glucose and lactate. Plasma osmolality and ions remained stable, but cortisol increased gill and kidney Na+/K+ ATPase (NKA) and H+ ATPase activities. Gill NKA activities were higher at 3%-BM, whereas kidney H+ ATPase activity was greater at 0.5%-BM. Cortisol induced liver protein mobilization and repartitioned liver and muscle glycogen. At 3%-BM, this did not increase plasma ammonia, reflecting improved excretion efficiency concomitant with upregulation of Rhesus glycoprotein Rhcg-1 in gill. Responses in glucocorticoid receptors (GR1/GR2) and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) to cortisol elevation were most prominent in kidney with increased expression of all receptors at 24Â h-PI at 0.5%-BM, but only GR2 and MR at 0.5%-BM. In the liver, upregulation of all receptors occurred at 24Â h-PI at 3%-BM, whilst only GR2 and MR were upregulated at 0.5%-BM. In the gill, there was a limited upregulation: GR2 and MR at 72Â h-PI and GR1 at 168Â h-PI at 3%-BM but only GR2 at 72Â h-PI at 0.5%-BM. Thus cortisol elevation led to similar expression patterns of cortisol receptors in both feeding regimes, while feeding affected the type of receptor that was induced. Induction of corticoid receptors occurred simultaneously with increases in Rhcg-1 mRNA expression (gill) but well after NKA and H+ ATPase activities increased (gill/kidney).
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Authors
Hon Jung Liew, Angela Fazio, Caterina Faggio, Ronny Blust, Gudrun De Boeck,