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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1093/toxsci/kfy250
Lizenz creative commons licence
Titel (primär) Automated morphological feature assessment for zebrafish embryo developmental toxicity screens
Autor Teixidó, E.; Kießling, T.R.; Krupp, E.; Quevedo, C.; Muriana, A.; Scholz, S. ORCID logo
Quelle Toxicological Sciences
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
Department BIOTOX
Band/Volume 167
Heft 2
Seite von 438
Seite bis 449
Sprache englisch
Daten-/Softwarelinks https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gv144d5.1
Keywords developmental toxicity; zebrafish embryo; alternatives to animal testing; image analysis
Abstract Detection of developmental phenotypes in zebrafish embryos typically involves a visual assessment and scoring of morphological features by an individual researcher. Subjective scoring could impact results and be of particular concern when phenotypic effect patterns are also used as a diagnostic tool to classify compounds. Here we introduce a quantitative morphometric approach based on image analysis of zebrafish embryos. A software called FishInspector was developed to detect morphological features from images collected using an automated system to position zebrafish embryos. The analysis was verified and compared with visual assessments of 3 participating laboratories using 3 known developmental toxicants (methotrexate, dexamethasone, and topiramate) and 2 negative compounds (loratadine and glibenclamide). The quantitative approach exhibited higher sensitivity and made it possible to compare patterns of effects with the potential to establish a grouping and classification of developmental toxicants. Our approach improves the robustness of phenotype scoring and reliability of assay performance and, hence, is anticipated to improve the predictivity of developmental toxicity screening using the zebrafish embryo.
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Teixidó, E., Kießling, T.R., Krupp, E., Quevedo, C., Muriana, A., Scholz, S. (2019):
Automated morphological feature assessment for zebrafish embryo developmental toxicity screens
Toxicol. Sci. 167 (2), 438 - 449 10.1093/toxsci/kfy250