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MASTER’S THESIS
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<b>TABLE OF CONTENTS ... i</b>
<b>LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ... v</b>
<b>ABBREVIATIONS ... vii</b>
<b>PREFACE ... 1</b>
<b>Chapter 1: BACKGROUND INFORMATION ... 2</b>
<i><b>1.1. Small molecules: safety concerns ... 2 </b></i>
<i>1.1.1. Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) ... 3</i>
<i>1.1.2. Food additives ... 4</i>
<i>1.1.3. Household chemicals ... 5</i>
<i><b>1.2. The Zebrafish embryo toxicity test (ZET) ... 6 </b></i>
<b>Chapter 2: METHODS ... 11</b>
<i><b>2.1. Substances ... 11 </b></i>
<i><b>2.2. Zebrafish maintenance ... 12 </b></i>
<i><b>2.3. Chemical exposure and embryo observation ... 12 </b></i>
<i><b>2.4. Behavioural analysis ... 14 </b></i>
<i><b>2.5. Gene expression analysis ... 14 </b></i>
<i>2.5.1. Reverse transcription and quantitative polymerase chain reaction ... 14</i>
<i>2.5.2. Transgenic fluorescent lines ... 16</i>
<i><b>2.6. Statistical analysis ... 16 </b></i>
<i><b>2.7. Quality control ... 17 </b></i>
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<i><b>3.1. Morphological and lethal effects ... 18 </b></i>
<i><b>3.2. Locomotor defects ... 29 </b></i>
<i><b>3.3. Specific transgene expression in living embryos ... 33 </b></i>
<i><b>3.4. Reverse transcriptive – qPCR ... 38 </b></i>
<b>Chapter 4: CONCLUSIONS ... 41</b>
<i><b>Table 2-1: List of studied chemicals ... 11</b></i>
<i><b>Table 2-2: Lethality endpoints ... 13</b></i>
<i><b>Table 2-3: Quantitative PCR primer set ... 15</b></i>
<i><b>Table 3-1: Concentration ranges selected for the main study... 18</b></i>
<i><b>Table 3-2: Lethal concentrations, effective concentrations, teratogenic indices, and </b></i>
<i><b>typical defects of studied substances ... 25</b></i>
<b>Figures</b>
<i><b>Figure 1.1: Orthologous genes shared among the zebrafish, human, mouse and chicken </b></i>
<i><b>genomes (reprinted from Howe et. al. [33]) ... 7</b></i>
<i><b>Figure 1.2: Literature analysis using the Scopus database in February 2014 ... 8</b></i>
<i><b>Figure 1.3: Comparisons between the ZET test and the classical acute fish toxicity test </b></i>
<i><b>(reprinted from Lammer et. al. [40]) ... 10</b></i>
<i><b>Figure 2.1: Normal morphological stages of zebrafish development at 28.5 </b></i><i><b>C (photos </b></i>
<i><b>excerpted from Kimmel et.al. [39]). Scale bars = 250 </b></i><i><b>M. ... 13</b></i>
<i><b>Figure 3.1: Morphological phenotypes in hatched zebrafish larvae ... 19</b></i>
<i><b>Figure 3.2: Concentration-response curves and frequency of typical phenotypes caused </b></i>
<i><b>by tested substances ... 22</b></i>
<i><b>Figure 3.3: LC50, EC50 Hill slope values of tested chemicals ... 27</b></i>
<i><b>Figure 3.4: Correlation between LC50s resulting from this study and those obtained </b></i>
<i><b>using the procedure described in the OECD 236 guideline [59] ... 28</b></i>
<i><b>Figure 3.5: Larval motion measurements during the dark/light cycles ... 30</b></i>
<i><b>Figure 3.6: Comparative analysis of larval activity ... 31</b></i>
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DCA 3,4-Dichloroaniline
DMSO Dimethyl sulfoxide
dpf Day post fertilisation
EtOH Ethanol
hpf Hour post fertilisation
MSG Monosodium glutamate
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development
PPCPs Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products
qPCR Quantitative polymerase chain reaction
QY Quinoline yellow
SB Sodium Benzoate
TTZ Tartrazine
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The human population are increasingly exposed to various chemicals whose
beneficial or deleterious properties often remain unexplored. The rising public
concern about hazardous substances existing in foods and consumer products has
forced legislators to tighten chemical management policy that requires extensive
toxicity testing. However, assessment of chemical toxicity is a challenging task,
especially in terms of reliability and efficiency. Ethical issues over the use of animal
testing also add further complication to the task.
The zebrafish (<i>Danio rerio</i>) embryo is an emerging model system for
chemical testing that is attracting scientific and legal attention. Its advantages
including rapid development, high availability, and easy observation have made the
model amenable to high-throughput assays. Moreover, as a complex and
independent organism retaining the “non-animal” status, the zebrafish embryo is the
ideal vertebrate testing model.
Chemicals have become an integral part of modern daily life. They play an
important role in almost all industries and economic sectors. Consumer goods of our
everyday-use are either containing chemicals, or involving them during production.
However, many chemicals are also posing potential deleterious effects on
human and environment health, especially those with small molecular size (<900
Daltons). Amongst the most well-known examples is the <i>thalidomide </i>scandal which
involved thousands of cases of stillborn and extreme congenital deformity [38], or
the carcinogenic <i>benzene</i> [73] which may have claimed thousands of deaths around
the world. Another case is <i>DDT</i>, the insecticide whose extensive use and high
accumulation have greatly threatened both wildlife species and human health [83].
A common theme in these three instances is that large-scale application of these
chemicals was conducted without having sufficient knowledge on their adverse
impacts, and measures to restrict the uses were taken too late to prevent irreversible
damages.
Ironically, despite efforts to achieve the world governments’ agreement to
use and produce chemicals “…in ways that do not lead to significant adverse effects
on human health and the environment…” by 2020 using scientific assessment
procedures [85], the number of compounds and the complexity of the issue lead to
the situation that unrecognised or unacknowledged toxic compounds in domestic
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