Measuring endocrine (cortisol) responses of zebrafish to stress

Peter R. Canavello; Jonathan M. Cachat; Esther C. Beeson; Autumn L. Laffoon; Chelsea Grimes; Whitlee A.M. Haymore; Marco F. Elegante; Brett K. Bartels; Peter C. Hart; Salem I. Elkhayat; David H. Tien; Sopan Mohnot; Hakima Amri; Allan V. Kalueff

doi:10.1007/978-1-60761-953-6_11

Measuring endocrine (cortisol) responses of zebrafish to stress

Peter R. Canavello
, Jonathan M. Cachat
, Esther C. Beeson
, Autumn L. Laffoon
, Chelsea Grimes
, Whitlee A.M. Haymore
, Marco F. Elegante
, Brett K. Bartels
, Peter C. Hart
, Salem I. Elkhayat
, David H. Tien
, Sopan Mohnot
, Hakima Amri
, Allan V. Kalueff

Tulane University
Arkansas Technical University
Georgetown University

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Abstract

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is rapidly becoming a popular model species in stress and neuroscience research. Their behavior, robustly affected by environmental and pharmacological manipulations, can be paralleled by physiological (endocrine) analysis. Zebrafish have a hypothalamic-pituitary- interrenal (HPI) axis, which is homologous to the human hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal (HPA) axis. While mice and rats use corticosterone as their main stress hormone, both humans and zebrafish utilize cortisol. This protocol explains the whole-body cortisol extraction procedure and the use of the human salivary cortisol ELISA kit to measure the amount of cortisol in each zebrafish sample. The ability to correlate physiological data from individual fish with behavioral data provides researchers with a valuable tool for investigating stress and anxiety, and contributes to the utility of zebrafish neurobehavioral models of stress.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Zebrafish Neurobehavioral Protocols
Editors	Allan Kalueff, Jonathan Cachat
Pages	135-142
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-953-6_11
Publication status	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Neuromethods
Volume	51
ISSN (Print)	0893-2336
ISSN (Electronic)	1940-6045

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

cortisol
ELISA
HPA axis
HPI axis
physiological endpoint
stress
Zebrafish

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Canavello, P. R., Cachat, J. M., Beeson, E. C., Laffoon, A. L., Grimes, C., Haymore, W. A. M., Elegante, M. F., Bartels, B. K., Hart, P. C., Elkhayat, S. I., Tien, D. H., Mohnot, S., Amri, H., & Kalueff, A. V. (2011). Measuring endocrine (cortisol) responses of zebrafish to stress. In A. Kalueff, & J. Cachat (Eds.), Zebrafish Neurobehavioral Protocols (pp. 135-142). (Neuromethods; Vol. 51). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-953-6_11

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