pyHeart4Fish : Chamber-specific heart phenotype quantification of zebrafish in high-content screens

Copyright © 2023 Vedder, Reinberger, Haider, Eichelmann, Odenthal, Abdelilah-Seyfried, Aherrahrou, Breuer and Erdmann..

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death. Of CVDs, congenital heart diseases are the most common congenital defects, with a prevalence of 1 in 100 live births. Despite the widespread knowledge that prenatal and postnatal drug exposure can lead to congenital abnormalities, the developmental toxicity of many FDA-approved drugs is rarely investigated. Therefore, to improve our understanding of drug side effects, we performed a high-content drug screen of 1,280 compounds using zebrafish as a model for cardiovascular analyses. Zebrafish are a well-established model for CVDs and developmental toxicity. However, flexible open-access tools to quantify cardiac phenotypes are lacking. Here, we provide pyHeart4Fish, a novel Python-based, platform-independent tool with a graphical user interface for automated quantification of cardiac chamber-specific parameters, such as heart rate (HR), contractility, arrhythmia score, and conduction score. In our study, about 10.5% of the tested drugs significantly affected HR at a concentration of 20 µM in zebrafish embryos at 2 days post-fertilization. Further, we provide insights into the effects of 13 compounds on the developing embryo, including the teratogenic effects of the steroid pregnenolone. In addition, analysis with pyHeart4Fish revealed multiple contractility defects induced by seven compounds. We also found implications for arrhythmias, such as atrioventricular block caused by chloropyramine HCl, as well as (R)-duloxetine HCl-induced atrial flutter. Taken together, our study presents a novel open-access tool for heart analysis and new data on potentially cardiotoxic compounds.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in cell and developmental biology - 11(2023) vom: 24., Seite 1143852

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Vedder, Viviana L [VerfasserIn]
Reinberger, Tobias [VerfasserIn]
Haider, Syed M I [VerfasserIn]
Eichelmann, Luis [VerfasserIn]
Odenthal, Nadine [VerfasserIn]
Abdelilah-Seyfried, Salim [VerfasserIn]
Aherrahrou, Zouhair [VerfasserIn]
Breuer, Maximilian [VerfasserIn]
Erdmann, Jeanette [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiovascular disease
Development
Drug effects
Drug screen
Heart
Journal Article
PyHeart4Fish
Python GUI application
Zebrafish

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Date Revised 30.04.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fcell.2023.1143852

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356173496