Zebrafish as a model to predict effects of multiple environmental stressors: using a multi-biomarker approach

• Grant number: 18/06945-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2018
• End date: July 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Pharmacology - Toxicology
• Principal Investigator: Danielle Palma de Oliveira
• Grantee: Flavia Renata Abe
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (FCFRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/10356-3 - Neurodegenerative zebrafish models and setting up new efficacy assays, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Despite the advances in researches on chemicals toxicity, the large amount of multiple stressors into the environmental demands the development of efficient approaches to characterize the toxicological profile of a broad spectrum of chemical classes, regardless of their mechanism of action. The main goal of the present work is to tackle this gap and develop a battery of infraindividual biomarkers for the evaluation of multiple chemicals, assessing global responses of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos that reflects the status of environmental and human health. The selected biomarkers include detoxification and oxidative stress-related (glutathione stransferase, total glutathione, catalase, lipid peroxidation), energy budget-related (total energy reserves, total energy consumption, cellular energy allocation), in addition to the biomarker of genotoxicity (comet assay), based on the potential of multiple chemicals to modulate detoxification and oxidative stress responses that are energetically costly. The efficiency of this approach will be evaluated using two types of environmental stressors with a wide range of mechanism of action: pesticides and dyes. The methodology also include a simple math calculation to quantify the efficiency and sensibility of the approach compared to the conventional LC50. Together, these biomarkers of high-throughput, high-sensitivity and lowcost will allow a good early warning indication of the general health status of the organisms in relation to chemical exposure and its effects, useful for chemicals risk assessment and for environmental monitoring, suitable to be implemented in researches labs and in mitigation plans to prevent the environmental and human health disturbances. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ABE, FLAVIA RENATA; DORTA, DANIEL JUNQUEIRA; GRAVATO, CARLOS; DE OLIVEIRA, DANIELLE PALMA. Elucidating the effects of pure glyphosate and a commercial formulation on early life stages of zebrafish using a complete biomarker approach: All-or-nothing!. Science of The Total Environment, v. 916, p. 14-pg., 2024-01-26. (18/24298-2, 18/06945-0, 14/50945-4)

ANDRADE, GABRIELA CARVALHO; PEREIRA BRANCINI, GUILHERME THOMAZ; ABE, FLAVIA RENATA; DE OLIVEIRA, DANIELLE PALMA; NICOLELLA, HELOIZA DINIZ; TAVARES, DENISE CRISPIM; DITONDO MICAS, ANDRE FERNANDO; SAVAZZI, EDUARDO ANGELINO; SILVA-JUNIOR, GERALDO JOSE; WAINWRIGHT, MARK; et al. henothiazinium dyes for photodynamic treatment present lower environmental risk compared to a formulation of trifloxystrobin and tebuconazol. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY, v. 226, JAN 2022. (16/24269-7, 18/24298-2, 18/06945-0, 16/11386-5, 14/50945-4)