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An Assay for Lateral Line Regeneration in Adult Zebrafish
Authors:Gina C. Pisano  Samantha M. Mason  Nyembezi Dhliwayo  Robert V. Intine  Michael P. Sarras     Jr.
Affiliation:1.Department of Biomedical Sciences, Dr. William M Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science;2.Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Abstract:Due to the clinical importance of hearing and balance disorders in man, model organisms such as the zebrafish have been used to study lateral line development and regeneration. The zebrafish is particularly attractive for such studies because of its rapid development time and its high regenerative capacity. To date, zebrafish studies of lateral line regeneration have mainly utilized fish of the embryonic and larval stages because of the lower number of neuromasts at these stages. This has made quantitative analysis of lateral line regeneration/and or development easier in the earlier developmental stages. Because many zebrafish models of neurological and non-neurological diseases are studied in the adult fish and not in the embryo/larvae, we focused on developing a quantitative lateral line regenerative assay in adult zebrafish so that an assay was available that could be applied to current adult zebrafish disease models. Building on previous studies by Van Trump et al.17 that described procedures for ablation of hair cells in adult Mexican blind cave fish and zebrafish (Danio rerio), our assay was designed to allow quantitative comparison between control and experimental groups. This was accomplished by developing a regenerative neuromast standard curve based on the percent of neuromast reappearance over a 24 hr time period following gentamicin-induced necrosis of hair cells in a defined region of the lateral line. The assay was also designed to allow extension of the analysis to the individual hair cell level when a higher level of resolution is required.
Keywords:Developmental Biology   Issue 86   Zebrafish   lateral line regeneration   lateral line development   neuromasts   hair cell regeneration   disease models
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