PUBLICATION
The influence of environmental PO2 on hemoglobin oxygen saturation in developing zebrafish Danio rerio
- Authors
- Grillitsch, S., Medgyesy, N., Schwerte, T., and Pelster, B.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-050111-3
- Date
- 2005
- Source
- The Journal of experimental biology 208(Pt.2): 309-316 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Pelster, Bernd, Schwerte, Thorsten
- Keywords
- ontogeny, oxygen exchange, circulatory system, heart, zebrafish, Danio rerio
- MeSH Terms
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- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Diffusion
- Heart Rate
- Hemoglobins/metabolism*
- Larva/metabolism
- Oxygen/blood*
- Oxygen Consumption/physiology
- Partial Pressure
- Spectrophotometry
- Video Recording
- Zebrafish/blood*
- Zebrafish/growth & development*
- PubMed
- 15634850 Full text @ J. Exp. Biol.
Citation
Grillitsch, S., Medgyesy, N., Schwerte, T., and Pelster, B. (2005) The influence of environmental PO2 on hemoglobin oxygen saturation in developing zebrafish Danio rerio. The Journal of experimental biology. 208(Pt.2):309-316.
Abstract
Several studies suggest that during early larval development of lower vertebrates convective blood flow is not essential to supply oxygen to the tissues, but information about the oxygenation status of larvae during the time of cutaneous respiration is still missing. If convective oxygen transport contributes to the oxygen supply to tissues, venous blood in the central circulatory system should be partly deoxygenated, and hyperoxia should increase the oxygen saturation of the hemoglobin. To analyze the changes in hemoglobin oxygen saturation induced by hyperoxic incubation, zebrafish larvae were incubated in a tiny chamber between polytetrafluoroethylene membranes (Teflon), so that the oxygen supply could be rapidly modified. Hemoglobin oxygen saturation was measured in vivo by combining video imaging techniques with a spectrophotometrical analysis of hemoglobin light absorption at specific wavelengths for maximal absorption of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood (413 nm and 431 nm, respectively) under normoxic conditions and after a 10 min period of hyperoxia (P(O(2))=100 kPa), assuming that at a P(O(2)) of 100 kPa the hemoglobin is fully saturated. The results demonstrated that red blood cell oxygenation of zebrafish larvae at 4 days post fertilization (d.p.f.), 5 d.p.f. and 12 d.p.f. could be increased by hyperoxia. The data suggest that at the time of yolk sac degradation (i.e. 4 d.p.f. and 5 d.p.f.), when the total surface area of the animal is reduced, bulk diffusion of oxygen may not be sufficient to prevent a partial deoxygenation of the hemoglobin. The decrease in hemoglobin oxygenation observed at 12 d.p.f. confirms earlier studies indicating that at 12-14 d.p.f., convective oxygen transport becomes necessary to ensure oxygen supply to the growing tissues.
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