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Elbialy ZI, Gamal S, Al-Hawary II, Shukry M, Salah AS, Aboshosha AA, Assar DH. Exploring the impacts of different fasting and refeeding regimes on Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.): growth performance, histopathological study, and expression levels of some muscle growth-related genes. FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 2022; 48:973-989. [PMID: 35781858 PMCID: PMC9385825 DOI: 10.1007/s10695-022-01094-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Accepted: 06/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The current study investigated how different fasting and refeeding regimes would impact Nile tilapia growth performance, histopathological examination, and gene expression of myostatin, myogenin, GH, IGF-1, and NPYa. Nile tilapia fish (n = 120) were randomly allocated into four groups, including the control group fed on a basal diet for 6 weeks (F6), group A starved for 1 week and then refed for 5 weeks (S1F5), group B starved for 2 weeks and then refed for 4 weeks (S2F4), while group C starved for 4 weeks and then refed for 2 weeks (S4F2). Fasting provoked a decrease in body weight coincided with more extended starvation periods. Also, it induced muscle and liver histological alterations; the severity was correlated with the length of fasting periods. Gene expression levels of GH, MSTN, MYOG, and NPYa were significantly increased, while IGF1 was markedly depressed in fasted fish compared to the control group. Interestingly, refeeding after well-planned short fasting period (S1F5) modulated the histopathological alterations. To some extent, these changes were restored after refeeding. Restored IGF-I and opposing fasting expression profiles of the genes mentioned above thus recovered weights almost like the control group and achieved satisfactory growth compensation. Conversely, refeeding following more extended fasting periods failed to restore body weight. In conclusion, refeeding after fasting can induce a compensatory response. Still, the restoration capacity is dependent on the length of fasting and refeeding periods through exhibiting differential morphological structure and expressions pattern for muscle and growth-related genes.
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- Zizy I. Elbialy
- Fish Processing and Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33516 Egypt
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- Fish Processing and Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33516 Egypt
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- Fish Processing and Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33516 Egypt
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33516 Egypt
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- Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33516 Egypt
- Institute of Aquaculture, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA UK
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33516 Egypt
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- Clinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33516 Egypt
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Xavier MJ, Engrola S, Conceição LEC, Manchado M, Carballo C, Gonçalves R, Colen R, Figueiredo V, Valente LMP. Dietary Antioxidant Supplementation Promotes Growth in Senegalese Sole Postlarvae. Front Physiol 2020; 11:580600. [PMID: 33281617 PMCID: PMC7688786 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.580600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Somatic growth is a balance between protein synthesis and degradation, and it is largely influenced by nutritional clues. Antioxidants levels play a key role in protein turnover by reducing the oxidative damage in the skeletal muscle, and hence promoting growth performance in the long-term. In the present study, Senegalese sole postlarvae (45 days after hatching, DAH) were fed with three experimental diets, a control (CTRL) and two supplemented with natural antioxidants: curcumin (CC) and grape seed (GS). Trial spanned for 25 days and growth performance, muscle cellularity and the expression of muscle growth related genes were assessed at the end of the experiment (70 DAH). The diets CC and GS significantly improved growth performance of fish compared to the CTRL diet. This enhanced growth was associated with larger muscle cross sectional area, with fish fed CC being significantly different from those fed the CTRL. Sole fed the CC diet had the highest number of muscle fibers, indicating that this diet promoted muscle hyperplastic growth. Although the mean fiber diameter did not differ significantly amongst treatments, the proportion of large-sized fibers (>25 μm) was also higher in fish fed the CC diet suggesting increased hypertrophic growth. Such differences in the phenotype were associated with a significant up-regulation of the myogenic differentiation 2 (myod2) and the myomaker (mymk) transcripts involved in myocyte differentiation and fusion, respectively, during larval development. The inclusion of grape seed extract (GS diet) resulted in a significant increase in the expression of myostatin1. These results demonstrate that both diets (CC and GS) can positively modulate muscle development and promote growth in sole postlarvae. This effect is more prominent in CC fed fish, where increased hyperplastic and hypertrophic growth of the muscle was associated with an upregulation of myod2 and mymk genes.
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- Maria J. Xavier
- Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal
- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- SPAROS Lda., Olhão, Portugal
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- Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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- IFAPA Centro El Toruño, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cádiz, Spain
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- IFAPA Centro El Toruño, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cádiz, Spain
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- Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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- Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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- Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal
- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal
- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Torres-Velarde J, Llera-Herrera R, Ibarra-Castro L, García-Gasca T, García-Gasca A. Post-transcriptional silencing of myostatin-1 in the spotted rose snapper (Lutjanus guttatus) promotes muscle hypertrophy. Mol Biol Rep 2019; 47:443-450. [DOI: 10.1007/s11033-019-05147-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Torres-Velarde J, Ibarra-Castro L, Rodríguez-Ibarra E, Sifuentes-Romero I, Hernández-Cornejo R, García-Gasca A. Expression of myostatin in the spotted rose snapper Lutjanus guttatus during larval and juvenile development under cultured conditions. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2015; 87:1147-1164. [PMID: 26376729 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2014] [Revised: 05/15/2015] [Accepted: 07/16/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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In this study, the developmental expression pattern of myostatin (mstn) in the spotted rose snapper Lutjanus guttatus under culture conditions is presented. The full coding sequence of mstn from L. guttatus was isolated from muscle tissue, obtaining 1134 nucleotides which encode a peptide of 377 amino acids. The phylogenetic analysis indicated that this sequence corresponds to mstn-1. mstn expression was detected in embryonic stages, and maintained at low levels until 28 days post-hatch, when it showed a significant increase, coinciding with the onset of metamorphosis. After that, expression was fluctuating, coinciding probably with periods of rapid and slow muscle growth or individual growth rates. mstn expression was also analysed by body mass with higher levels detected in smaller animals, irrespective of age. mstn was also expressed in other tissues from L. guttatus, presenting higher levels in brain, eye and gill. In brain for instance, two variants of mstn were isolated, both coding sequences were identical to muscle, except that one of them contained a 75 nucleotide deletion in exon 1, maintaining the reading frame but deleting two conserved cysteine residues. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that this brain variant was also mstn-1. The function of this variant is not clear and needs further investigation. These results indicate that mstn-1 participates in different physiological processes other than muscle growth in fishes.
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- J Torres-Velarde
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Avenida Sábalo-Cerritos s/n, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 82010, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Reproduction and Marine Finfish Hatchery, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Avenida Sábalo-Cerritos s/n, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 82010, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Reproduction and Marine Finfish Hatchery, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Avenida Sábalo-Cerritos s/n, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 82010, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Avenida Sábalo-Cerritos s/n, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 82010, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Avenida Sábalo-Cerritos s/n, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 82010, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Avenida Sábalo-Cerritos s/n, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 82010, Mexico
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Zeng C, Liu XL, Wang WM, Tong JG, Luo W, Zhang J, Gao ZX. Characterization of GHRs, IGFs and MSTNs, and analysis of their expression relationships in blunt snout bream, Megalobrama amblycephala. Gene 2014; 535:239-49. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2013] [Revised: 11/06/2013] [Accepted: 11/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Liu Z, Xue L, Shen W, Ying J, Zhang Z. Spatio-temporal expression pattern and fasting response of follistatin gene in teleost Larimichthys crocea. Genes Genomics 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s13258-013-0159-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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cDNA cloning and expression analysis of myostatin/GDF11 in shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2013; 165:30-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2012] [Revised: 02/02/2013] [Accepted: 02/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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