ABSTRACT: Microarray analysis of transcripts in the liver of gilthead sea bream with high plasma cortisol levels induced by slow-release cortisol implants
Project description:The present work was designed to assess the effects of high plasma cortisol levels induced by slow-release cortisol implants in the mRNA transcription of the GR in the different organs of the Sparus aurata, including liver. For that purpose fish were intraperitoneally injected with the implants containing two different concentrations of cortisol (50 or 200 µg/g body weight) and blood and organs were sampled after 7 and 14 days of implantation. Only fish with 200 µg/g implants exhibited a significant rise in the plasma cortisol. For microarray analysis we used livers of gilthead sea bream (N=36 fish). Fish were injected with 200 µg/g body weight of cortisol and sampled after 7 and 14 days (n=6 for each condition). RNA samples were grouped into pools of 2 animals for each time point. The analysis were carried out considering the transcripts differentially expressed in the group of fish implanted during 7 days with cortisol comparing to control group. Additionally, the transcripts differentially expressed at day 14 were compared with day 7.
Project description:Gilthead sea bream fed plant-protein based diets with either fish oil or vegetable oil as the most iportant source of dietary lipids were experimentally exposed to the intestinal parasite Enteromyxum leei by water effluent. A specific gilthead sea bream oligo-microarray was used to determine the intestine transcriptomic response.
Project description:Explore the underlying mechanisms-of-action after short-term (24 h) waterborne exposure to low (0.5 μg/L) and high (50 μg/L) gold nanoparticles (AuNP) concentrations in gilthead sea bream.
Project description:The present work was designed to assess the effects of high plasma cortisol levels induced by slow-release cortisol implants in the mRNA transcription of the GR in the different organs of the Sparus aurata, including liver. For that purpose fish were intraperitoneally injected with the implants containing two different concentrations of cortisol (50 or 200 µg/g body weight) and blood and organs were sampled after 7 and 14 days of implantation. Only fish with 200 µg/g implants exhibited a significant rise in the plasma cortisol.
Project description:A gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) microarray platform was developed to identify brain gene expression profiles in response to environmental concentrations of human pharmaceuticals.
Project description:Sparicotylosis is an endemic parasitic disease across the Mediterranean Sea caused by the polyopisthocotylean monogenean Sparycotyle chrysophrii, which affects the gills of gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata). Current disease-management, mitigation and treatment strategies are scarce against sparicotylosis. In order to successfully develop more efficient therapeutic strategies against this disease, understanding which molecular mechanisms and metabolic pathways are altered in the host is critical. This study aims to elucidate how S. chrysophrii infection modulates giltheadd seea bream physiological status and to identify the main altered biological processes through plasma proteomics of the host.
Project description:We report a comparison of tissue-specific (head kidney, intestine and liver) gene expression profiles from gilthead sea bream fed with control and Brewer's spent dry yeast (SDY) diets.The inclusion of SDY at 30% in the experimental diet (40% crude protein, 16% crude lipid) resulted in a reduction in FM (10%) and PP (31.4%) contents. 218 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified among all tissues, out of which, 141 were up- and 77 down-regulated. The enrichment analysis of DEGs revealed that SDY had a modulatory effect on several processes related to host’s immunity, oxygen’s carrier capacity, sexual differentiation, metabolism, and digestion. This study supports the notion that brewery’s by-products like SDY are suitable for aquafeeds of carnivorous fish species such as the gilthead sea bream, and promotes a circular bioeconomy model that reuses, recovers and recycles resources instead of producing wastes
Project description:Gilthead sea bream fed plant-protein based diets with either fish oil or vegetable oil as the most iportant source of dietary lipids were experimentally exposed to the intestinal parasite Enteromyxum leei by water effluent. A specific gilthead sea bream oligo-microarray was used to determine the intestine transcriptomic response. 41 samples from six experimental groups (2 diets x 3 infective status) in a single-color hybridization
