ArticleBMC research notes2020
Chronic cortisol exposure in early development leads to neuroendocrine dysregulation in adulthood.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sex-specific differences in zebrafish brains.Biology of sex differences · 2022Pooled it
- Pathophysiology, diagnosis and intervention strategies of nocturnal hypertension.Journal of human hypertension · 2026Review
- Effects of glucocorticoid receptor activation on gene expression and antiviral responses in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) red blood cells.Veterinary research · 2025Article
- Cortisol-Induced Chromatin Remodeling and Gene Expression in Skeletal Muscle of Rainbow Trout: Integrative ATAC-Seq and RNA-Seq Analysis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Loss of Krüppel-like factor 9 deregulates both physiological gene expression and development.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Glucocorticoid-Responsive Transcription Factor Krüppel-Like Factor 9 RegulatesFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Article
- Glucocorticoid-Mediated Developmental Programming of Vertebrate Stress Responsivity.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Review
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Abstract
objectiveChronic early life stress can affect development of the neuroendocrine stress system, leading to its persistent dysregulation and consequently increased disease risk in adulthood. One contributing factor is thought to be epigenetic programming in response to chronic cortisol exposure during early development. We have previously shown that zebrafish embryos treated chronically with cortisol develop into adults with constitutively elevated whole-body cortisol and aberrant immune gene expression. Here we further characterize that phenotype by assessing persistent effects of the treatment on cortisol tissue distribution and dynamics, chromatin accessibility, and activities of glucocorticoid-responsive regulatory genes klf9 and fkbp5. To that end cortisol levels in different tissues of fed and fasted adults were measured using ELISA, open chromatin in adult blood cells was mapped using ATAC-seq, and gene activity in adult blood and brain cells was measured using qRT-PCR.
resultsAdults derived from cortisol-treated embryos have elevated whole-body cortisol with aberrantly regulated tissue distribution and dynamics that correlate with differential activity of klf9 and fkbp5 in blood and brain.
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