ArticlePloS one2021
Thyroid hormone deficiency during zebrafish development impairs central nervous system myelination.
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- Emerging Roles, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Potential of Thyroid Hormones in Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Review.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Thyroid hormone levels and lipid mobilization in weatherfish Misgurnus fossilis during early development.Fish physiology and biochemistry · 2026Article
- Experimentally Manipulating the Thyroid Hormone Axis in Zebrafish.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Review
- Ontogeny of Thyroid Hormone Signaling in the Retina of Zebrafish: Effects of Thyroidal Status on Retinal Morphology, Cell Survival, and Color Preference.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Cross-species applicability of an adverse outcome pathway network for thyroid hormone system disruption.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2023Review
- Single-cell RNA-based phenotyping reveals a pivotal role of thyroid hormone receptor alpha for hypothalamic development.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Upregulation of Neurotrophic Factors and Myelin Basic Protein in Schwann-like Cells by T3 Hormone Following Transdifferentiation of Human Adipose-derived Stem Cells.International journal of molecular and cellular medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Thyroid hormones are messengers that bind to specific nuclear receptors and regulate a wide range of physiological processes in the early stages of vertebrate embryonic development, including neurodevelopment and myelogenesis. We here tested the effects of reduced T3 availability upon the myelination process by treating zebrafish embryos with low concentrations of iopanoic acid (IOP) to block T4 to T3 conversion. Black Gold II staining showed that T3 deficiency reduced the myelin density in the forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain and the spinal cord at 3 and 7 dpf. These observations were confirmed in 3 dpf mbp:egfp transgenic zebrafish, showing that the administration of IOP reduced the fluorescent signal in the brain. T3 rescue treatment restored brain myelination and reversed the changes in myelin-related gene expression induced by IOP exposure. NG2 immunostaining revealed that T3 deficiency reduced the amount of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in 3 dpf IOP-treated larvae. Altogether, the present results show that inhibition of T4 to T3 conversion results in hypomyelination, suggesting that THs are part of the key signaling molecules that control the timing of oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelin synthesis from very early stages of brain development.
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